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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: 2) by Open4D on Monday March 03 2014, @07:18AM

    by Open4D (371) on Monday March 03 2014, @07:18AM (#9934) Journal

    I gave 2 good reasons to presume it was a troll. And that was without even bothering with the Twitter and Google Docs points, which I have dealt with elsewhere.

    People have to bear in mind the difference between this and the old site. Both have a main community of readers & commenters. The difference comes in the people working behind the scenes. On Slashdot there were just a handful of people (Taco, CowboyNeal, Timmy, Samzenpus, etc.) doing that job, and the main community had little visibility of what was going on between them. Private IRC? Maybe even telephone calls!

    Here there are far more people involved working behind the scenes. I like the fact that I could get involved if I had time. But I don't. So I don't feel entitled to bitch about how they organize themselves - especially in the hectic early weeks. (They've got phpBB forums and a self-hosted IRC channel! The horror!)

    I do provide feedback of course. And I expect they like to see this kind of discussion going on, just maybe not the tone taken by the AC.

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