SoylentNews

This is a home for information about how SoylentNews.org was started, and the vision for it.

About SoylentNews.org

Welcome to the SoylentNews.org Wiki.

We deliver community-sourced news and discussion. This is an open-source, grassroots effort powered by article submissions from our readers, volunteers, and our forked version of slashcode called 'Rehash'. We highlight stories on the web which are important to everyone - especially nerds. We also provide a soapbox for discussion moderated by the site's patrons, and allow anonymous discourse as there's no mandatory registration needed to comment.

We are mindful of community sentiment, and will not bend to overreaching corporate agenda. The goal is to be an excellent source for discussion and news about technology, art, science and politics.

We've incorporated as a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation (similar to a non-profit) as we feel our mission to provide a platform for news dissemination and relevant discussion is not only essential for mankind, but also a legal right (i.e. freedom of press, freedom of speech) in some places, and these are liberties which we aim to protect.

Though the site is young and there are bugs, we are improving and adapting to satisfy the community's needs. We look forward to pushing the boundaries of web experience and are committed to involving the community on all major decisions.

Get Involved

This project is run entirely by the community and there are many different facets. Here are some of the many ways to participate:

• Submit a Story
  • Try joining the #rss-bot channel in IRC for story ideas
• Volunteer
  • Get in touch with the Development Team, especially if you know perl
  • Reach out to one of the other Teams (we have openings for many skill sets)
  • Contact the relevant person: Who's Who?
• Hop in to IRC:
  • #soylent on irc.soylentnews.org/6697
  • Webchat
  • IRC Wiki Page
• Bugs and Features:
  • Submit a bug or Feature Request
  • Add a Suggestion - larger projects to tackle for the future
• Tell Somebody A friend, a colleague, any major news source....
  • Do what you can to get the word out
  • You could participate in The Slashcott

Contacts

A list of people working on this project:

Useful Links

• Submission guidelines - best practices for story submissions
• Story Style - a guide for editors on article formatting
• Development team page
  • Code Repo - The Slashcode fork repository for this project on GitHub
  • DevelopmentVMHowto - How to get our code setup in a VM
  • SlashDocumentationIndex
• UserExperience team page
  • Style - some of this info needs to be merged/moved/organized into/with UserExperience
  • CssWork
• System Administration
• Finances - Breakdown of our proposed spending
• Licensing - ideas about which license to use for our slashcode fork
• Staff Meeting Logs
• SoylentNews PBC
• SoylentNews Policy

Similar Projects

• Pipedot - A complete re-write that uses a modern codebase and sports a clean look
• Usenet newsgroup comp.misc - on Google Groups, on Squte, via newsreader application
• Technocrat - (now defunt) News site presented by Bruce Perens

Archive

Archive -- An archive of obsolete pages/discussions that occurred before launch