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SoylentNews Staff Meeting, Community Invited

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: 1) by Barrabas on Sunday March 02 2014, @05:40PM

    by Barrabas (22) on Sunday March 02 2014, @05:40PM (#9674) Journal

    Let me see if I understand your position.

    Because there are other things going on that you don't like, you're going to stop reading the newsfeed and go back to slashdot.

    Half the readership won't read the meeting dialog in real-time and will have to read a summary or transcript later - and that's somehow a problem for you?

    We try new things (youtube video) and respond to community feedback.

    All of these things make you - nay, *force you* to stand up, go over to a wall, and bang your head?

    I don't see a problem with that :-)

  • (Score: 1) by efitton on Sunday March 02 2014, @06:24PM

    by efitton (1077) on Sunday March 02 2014, @06:24PM (#9693) Homepage

    I'm just going to say thank you and that I like it here.

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 02 2014, @06:45PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 02 2014, @06:45PM (#9700)

    Obviously you misinterpret. The point is, _the community interaction is not consistent here_.

    On /. your low user ID is worth something because everyone knows you by the consistent interactions that are comments. People know and judge you by that interaction alone. With your way of running things this is no longer true and may destroy the spirit and feeling around the original /.