[Seattle-editorial] IDEA: facilitating feature proposal

[Jeremy Kahn]

On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Jason Reep wrote:

> 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...

Super. I'm out of town for the rest of the weekend -- can I ask the
editorial group to think out loud about what the explanatory paragraph
should say?  I'll swap hats and propose this to the seattle-tech group
Monday or so, unless somebody else takes that on.

We could start the tech process now, but unpublicized as we wordsmith the
explanation.  Anybody want to take this to tech while I'm out of town?

--jeremy


>
> 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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