[Seattle-editorial] IDEA: facilitating feature proposal

[Jason Reep]

I think it's a fine idea given that tere is either an intermediate page 
or expanatorey paragrapgh before the for with some guidelines, like that 
the feature should refer to at least one newswire article and preferably 
more, it should be local or regional or tie in directly to a local 
impact of some kind...

publicized it could help build confidence in the process and motivate 
more folks to post.  We'd have to be prepared for a fair amount of back 
and forth with people about refining proposals and such.  Wouldn't we 
also expect a lot more voices in the editorial discussions?  Do we have 
fresh ed. collective membership requirements? Food for thought.

later, Jason

Jeremy Kahn wrote:

>Wouldn't it be nice if there was another screen like
>  http://seattle.indymedia.org/features.cgi?screen=edit
>
>(perhaps features.cgi?screen==propose)
>
>Except for the following changes:
>  * sends the proposed feature to the seattle-editorial list
>  * does not require a password
>  * has a slot for "proposer's email address" (and a link saying
>    "help") with the following text behind the link:
>
>    fill this in if you'd like to be part of the discussion and have not
>    joined the seattle-editorial list (join that list here
>    https://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/seattle-editorial).
>
>  * a few cosmetic changes to make this possible.
>
>Do people think this is a good idea? I do. (well, what did you expect?)
>
>We could then link to it "propose a feature" from the front page!
>
>Rather than go into why I think it might be technically feasible, I want
>the thumbs up from this crew before I take it to the seattle-tech group.
>I'll go into tech details there, if nobody thinks this is a bad idea.
>
>okay?
>
>--jeremy
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