SoylentNews

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

About SoylentNews.org

Welcome to the SoylentNews.org Wiki.

We deliver community-sourced news and discussion. This is a grassroots effort powered by article submissions from our readers, volunteers, and our forked version of slashcode. 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.

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.

Project and business information

• Some information on Proposed Business Model
  
• Our Business Planning
  
• Our Feature List
• Staff Meeting Logs
• System Administration

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
• Volunteer
  • Get in touch with the Development Team
  • Reach out to one of the other Teams
  • 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:

List of Discussion Pages

• NewName
• MailingListUpdates
• Finances -- which model would allow to minimise and/or distribute hosting costs
• Business
• Moderation -- how/if to enhance; was it so bad it was the primary reason for the diaspora?
• FeatureList -- discussion of required/desired characteristics
• Submission guidelines
• Content
• Development
• Style
• Migration of users from Slashdot -- how to handle Nicks and UIDs
• Licensing
• WhosWho -- points of contact in different project areas
• Spreading the word
• Comments
• To do
• Stories from former Slashdot users
• What should the IRC network be like?
• How do we want a URL shortener to be used?
• CssWork
• The Slashcott
• Story Style

Similar Projects

• Technocrat - News site presented by Bruce Perens, going on the air Tuesday February 17.
• Pipedot - Rewrite project - Aiming to create a cleaner news site with modern technology.
• Usenet newsgroup comp.misc - on Google Groups, on Squte, via newsreader application

Archive

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