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This week’s Skype call featured a few new faces (sorry for the flood of links here):
Each provided valuable feedback regarding our Knight application, which we will finalize before the Nov. 1 deadline.
(A quick shout out again to Anthony Pesce, who provided great feedback on last week’s call. Also, Anthony is now on Twitter @anthonyjpesce).
Check out what we currently have in the Knight Garage. Please add comments and let us know what you think.
We also discussed our organizational structure (see the draft [Google Doc]), which includes several lead positions from Web to operations to finance. In addition to the leads, we also plan to have associates, advisers and team members.
What’s to come:
- Finish our Knight application.
- Finish our audit of content management systems, the goal of which is to be able to act as a resource for student newspapers when they consider switching.
- Survey part deux: try to get more online editors and editors in chief to respond to our basic questions. Also, to have all new and past respondents answer questions about workflow.
Look out for more discussion of workflows, which is something Daniel Bachhuber (@danielbachhuber) and I (@greglinch) have chatted about a couple times.
As has been suggested a few times in the recent past, this week’s conference call took a positive turn and fostered a fantastic discussion instead of focusing solely on action items. This was due in part to the small turnout, but also because we were joined by Anthony Pesce, a 2007 Knight News Challenge winner with Populous.
Since the KNC deadline is fast approaching and CoPress will be submitting an application come November 1, we talked about what we already have in the Garage and how our answers can be refined. Ryan Sholin already provided some great feedback there, so we used his responses/questions as a jumping off point.
Anthony did a wonderful job in offering advice and fielding questions from those on the call and he helped us firm up what CoPress needs to do to be successful as a Knight News Challenge applicant. We covered each requirement put forth by the Knight Foundation and tried to synthesize exactly what they are looking for.
If you are planning to take on the Knight News Challenge or if you’re interested in how to evaluate emerging ideas, do your best to set aside an hour and listen to this week’s call. It is likely to offer a good deal of insight while containing less esoteric discussion than usual.
19 October 2008 – Meeting notes – CoPress [Google Doc]
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Boy. Things are finally moving forward. The unfortunate side effect of the matter is the work that goes along with it, but it’s exciting nonetheless. This post is the first of what I hope to be a weekly series: every time we have a general conference call, someone takes a half an hour to synthesize what they think the important notes of the meeting are. This will also be the post that powers one of our podcasts, as that’s just the way WordPress works.
First off, I’d like to thank Joey, Kevin, Adam, Greg, Jared and Drew for joining me tonight. We’re not making any money on this little side project in any regard, so it’s wonderful they can see through the cloud enough to give up their Sunday evening. Of the cool action items we’ve taken care of in the past week, a few are worth noting. First, Adam has taken the initiative and set up a Basecamp account for us to use. I’m not drinking the juice quite yet, but it could prove to be a good way for us to manage tasks. I’m particularly interested in a project management tool because I think it will give us the ability to shunt tasks to one another when our school loads get too heavy. Conceivably, if we include enough information in the task, anyone can pick it up. In the past week, we’ve also managed to start an development roadmap for CoPress as an organization, which I think is really important for laying out the vision, and add so many comments to the “Ideal CMS Outline” that Kevin is calling “enough!” More in just a bit.
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