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posted by mattie_p on Sunday March 02 2014, @08:45AM   Printer-friendly
from the we-promised-open-access dept.

Greetings, Soylentils. First of all, I want to thank you, the community, for the outpouring of support during these past few weeks. The participation has been amazing, and I'd like to personally thank each and every one of you for your help in a successful launch so far. Unfortunately, I can't thank every one of you individually. As of this writing, there are over 3500 registered users!

Now, we promised to be transparent, and we intend to deliver. Our first (and right now, only) all-hands staff meeting is at 1800 UTC on 2 March, and will be held on our IRC channels.

The staff will be holding the meeting on #Staff at irc.soylentnews.org. Only staff will be able to log into and speak on that channel. However, our IRC folks will be re-broadcasting this on the public channel, #Soylent. If you aren't familiar with IRC, please review Landon's recent post (we have a web client available as well). Many of our staff members will be monitoring both channels, and we will try to have the opportunity for questions. Conducting this meeting will be one of many learning experiences for us, so feel free to pipe up and say your piece.

Items on the agenda include a vision statement from our founder, an overview of staff organization from me(draft available here), general status update from each group, as well as proposals for future development. You may notice some missing names in the org chart. Please contact us at suggestions @ soylentnews dot. org if you are interested in volunteering or working here.

As always, thanks for being a part of this great community!

~mattie_p, general manager

 
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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Sunday March 02 2014, @01:26PM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Sunday March 02 2014, @01:26PM (#9581) Journal

    Twitter is an advertising channel, not a dependency. I don't think you lose out anything by not using twitter (I can't be sure, of course, because I don't use it, but AFAIU it only broadcasts the story titles.

    Also YouTube is not essential to the site (although it excludes everyone not willing to get a Google account from competing in that competition, but then, I also see that competition more of an advertising campaign, and while I don't really like that competition, the fact that it's done on YouTube is my least concern here.

    Use of Google Docs for documents central to the development is already a different level. Is there a reason why that could not have been done on the (already existing!) SoylentNews wiki?

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