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Welcome to the SoylentNews.org Wiki

SoylentNews is a community-driven news site using slashcode. This is a home for information about how this project was started, the vision for it, and discussion about it's future.

Useful links:


Project Goal

To everyone involved... THANK YOU!

We are building a community-driven news site alternative to Slashdot. We have started only a few days ago, and we've already got a main site!

The idea is to build a news aggregation site that delivers what's important - better articles, less fluff, and all the functionality you expect from the moderation system. Volunteers can stop by the forum and the IRC and let us know you want to help!

  • The proposed business model is here
  • Some business planning is here
  • A statement of functionality (turn into a requirements document?)--- FeatureList


Get Involved

Hop in to IRC! - IRC: #soylent on irc.soylentnews.org/6697 (Webchat).


Register on the forums - http://forums.SoylentNews.org

  • Go to forums.SoylentNews.org and register a user
  • Read this post if you are having problems. (Thanks MrGuy)
  • Add yourself to whichever groups you are interested in
  • For tech issues with the forum software, please Email Joel: soylent (at) finite (dot) ms


Tell Somebody A friend, a colleague, any major news source....

  • Do what you can to get the word out
  • Also you could participate in The Slashcott


Work on an open project

  • Pick a project from the Open Projects list
  • Contact the relevant Overlord for more information


Mailing list update Messages are here

Site Name

We have a temporary name!

Thanks go out to everyone who made suggestions - some of them were absolutely brilliant! For example, it hadn't occurred to me to choose a name based on a non-English word, or a palindrome, or a puzzle. Many of the entries were quite clever. (Adies, it took me more than a day to figure yours out. Bravo!)

I won't post the runners up because squatters might take the names before we hold the real contest. We'll figure out a way to prevent this somehow - at worst case we can choose judges and do it privately.

Jerry had the winning entry.

The temp name is: SoylentNews with the tagline: SoylentNews is people!

Does this rock? It hits the trifecta of website goodness:

  • Descriptive in a way that mundanes will understand (compare "Photoshop" with "GIMP", "Internet Explorer" with "Firefox", and "MediaPlayer" with "VLC")
  • It's part of Nerd culture, a pun, and slightly twisted
  • It's suggestive of being community driven
  • Possible Trademark issues
  • It is attached to some movie about eating corpses and implies "News fresh as processed corpses" (??)


This will be a hard act to beat. Start thinking up names for the contest, or throw your weight behind this one. The contest will be held soon after we open the doors.

(And it was poutine (from IRC) who suggested we use a temporary name. Others may also have suggested it, but it was his post that I noticed. Be sure to thank him if you see him on IRC.)


Contacts

Contact and Overlord info is now on the Who's Who? page.

List of Discussion Pages


The Slashcott

The Slashcott (boycott) is getting attention

  • Show your support for the "Get rid of Beta" crowd by avoiding Slashdot during the week of February 10-17
  • Slashcott, Week 2, officially begins Monday, February 17th, 2014 and runs through the 23rd.
A selection of Slashcott/Beta comments from around the web.......


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