[Seattle-editorial] SEAIMC Ed WG Notes (kind of) 3-29-04

[Joseph Eisenschmidt]

Present were Benjamin, his bro(Sorry), Mark, Laury, and Joseph.

The SEAIMC Editorial Collective's sorry excuse for notes:

As no one actually took notes at our last meeting, here's an
unofficial version.

We talked about network issues and structure, as our new members had
little background to understand our situations.We went over recent
history, and discussed our role as an honest broker between the
masses and underrepresented groups, and the difficulty in pleasing
our constituents. Usefulness vs inclusiveness, etc.

We talked about our one single tech person carrying the entire tech
load, and how this was unsustainable for but a few more months, if
that. 

We discussed feature production and decided we would continue to
advance articles from the newswire as we've been doing. Laury got a
cheer for expressing a desire to do actual reporting work, like
calling and fact checking-the basics.

We have been trying to understand how our readers could clerk the
newswire themselves. Mark had an idea that we provide a check box or
something that sent an e-mail to editorial to hide an article.
Clearly we need a better way for readers to express concerns.

Contact info needed to get passwords to the new Members was passed
along. 

Can anyone else remember anything more?   

Joseph