Historic:TodoList

This is a todo list of items that currently don't fall under any Teams or Strike-teams. Visit the Team Pages for Team-related information.

Staff Organization

Formulate Plan
- Vision
- Bylaws
- TOS and Privacy Policy
- Develop task-list of ongoing duties from each "group"
Regular status updates with key leaders
Organize staff, delegate tasks to qualified people
password sharing, multi-factor protection
- truecrypt files
- ssss Secret Sharing wash suggested
GetLDAP setup

Determine best method to poll community on decisions (slash polls are stated to be unreliable, comments are useful but harder to draw empirical data from)
Determine Staff Communication Forum
- Keep mailing list
- redmine (ruby on rails)
- Use slashcode test server (would require tweaks but we could test new code while communicating, moderating best ideas etc.)
  - See: AudioGuyWorkNotes
- Aquire concensus
Clarify our stance on lameness filter paramaters
New Name contest (final one, we hope)
- New Names Shortlist:
  - soylentnews
  - port119.net
  - baconnews.org baconnews.net (baconnews.net was suggested as it can be "BNN")
  - nerdcard.net
  - geekcard.org
  - dailybacon.org
  - ionews.org
Summarize staff meeting(s) (or not?)(suggest: move to Editors section?mrcoolbp (talk) 19:47, 11 March 2014 (UTC))

Choose incorporation model
- Carry out necessary tasks to achieve chosen incorporation model status
Solicit legal advice:
- Requirements for keeping logs of user activity
- How to respond to DMCA takedown requests
- Identify the legal (copyright?) implications of cross-posting (reposting stories posted elsewhere)
Incorporation Model-dependent items:
- Swag? (sync with art)
- Marketing - Do we do it? how do we do it?
- Ads?
- Donations?
social media, do we want to pursue it? who? How?