[Seattle-editorial] Re: [Seasc] 12/9 IMC Meeting Minutes

[anarch3m]

Jason, remember my posts to sea tec?  about design changes, Primarily a LOCAL NEWS page (default page, or not)?

Sorry you didn't take part in more face to face discussion, undoccumented as they were.

Arguments for a filtered page, dedicated to local media and stories:
1. works toward the mission statement of facilitating media
2. encourages more local-news-viewers to spend their time
3. provides value added to any local community voice needing an audience
4. promotes civic journalism projects
5. removes the NOISE of open wire spam
6. highlight local producers 
7. give reward to presspassholders
8. filters for readers, based on trust and judgement in w/g, and thus assures standards of the factchecking and etc
9. all our critics say its a problem in the absense.
10. Its a simple, widely valuable change we can start with to get us focused on operating as a media facilitator.
11. the sea imc project is nothing if we set longer and let everything go past us, arguing that what we have is enough, or even good,  
12. saying the open wire has no problems worth our time is no longer acceptable.
13. we improve or die
14. implementation of the actuality is already schemed into various plans of the core facilitating team, the still standing.  WE have discussed how to tie this to outreach and our linked community activists through the spokes system.

I can send you more, about how workloads and input coordination would get scheduled and editorially coordinated.  Spokes, a revolving wheel, hub.  communication.
  
no one desk where it can hide.  Shared desks who coordinate, and one desk responsible for its own chosen details.  Rotating, all learning the skill set and passing it along in turn.

No last resting place to set undone. A pool of aware others to demand accountability.

Transparency for the w/g which you can call spoke council, core....
(I say: core group, and many in it are spokes to outside of the core, to collective work groups,  so that 1.the core is the w/g of certain work:2. spokes are involved with core work and also liasons to beyond, back to other w/groups with their autonomous goings on.)  

This gives a better chance of institutional memory, this pooling of sub tasks.  Each one member becomes replaceable, none avoid it.  The first task of every executive is thus fulfilled!

Ever read about optimal factory size, team size in general?
Factory management theory?

Ben and I are probably the best to answer more questions.

walt   




--------- Original Message ---------

DATE: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 22:25:23
From: Jason Reep <jasonr at speakeasy.net>
To: seasc at indymedia.org,Editorial <seattle-editorial at lists.indymedia.org>
Cc: 

>Hey,
>
>I just read the minutets.  what's this about a new editorial policy?
>
>> benjamin raises the question of when new editorial policy will go into effect.
>>-sheri suggests that discussions that have occured in meeting need to be had on the editorial list.
>>-benjamin volunteers to start the editorial discussion about having a local and other section on the home page (like urbana champaigne).
>
>Is this just a coming discussion about having a local section and an 
>other section on the newswire, or is there more that isn't out there yet 
>and if so, please get it out there.  the wording of these notes suggests 
>that some decision has already been made but I've seen no proposals or 
>discussion.
>
>-jason
Brandon Faloona wrote:
>> I took notes at tonight's meeting and... here they are:
...>> brandon



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