[Seattle-editorial] editorial meeting; minutes 9-9-03

[Jeremy G Kahn]

A brief and probably incomplete summary of what was discussed today at 
the 6p editorial meeting:

attendees: Jeremy, Gentry, Walt, Judy

We reviewed last week's discussion of highlight versus summary features.

We covered two topics:

TECH
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Codebase migration issues.
We agreed it was worthwhile for us as a group to review the background 
that Brandon posted in 
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/seattle-editorial/2003-September/003562.html

Further discussion of codebase features, requirements etc should be 
pursued -- but we need to cover institutional memory first.  Consensus 
that moving off of Active -- and to something that puts more control in 
the hands of the editors (and not only the techies) is needed.

OUTREACH
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Judy suggested that we be doing more outreach to other alternative 
presses.  Suggestions: swap ads/links, go to them and encourage them to 
publish.

Brainstorming of other groups to reach out to: Sun, ETS, Tablet, Real 
Change, Seattle Small Press. Gentry says he has a link he'll send to 
those interested in his index of these.

Gentry provided a conceptual division:
  * outreach  to encourage posting to the newswire -- everybody's thumbs 
up on this suggestion, too.

  * links to other media, updating existing links on web -- this is a 
good idea, but we don't really have the tech knowledge right now.

Further suggestions for outreach we *can* do (as opposed to that which 
we'd just *like* to):
  * go out and teach activist groups how to use the newswire -- Judy
  * does this count as CTC training? -- Judy

Wrapped up at 7p sharp so that the finance meeting could begin.

See you next week!