CommunitySupport

Welcome

This site is made possible by, and for, the insightful community of users. There are many ways to participate. Of course, submitting stories or commenting on them is the most obvious way to get involved. You can also submit Suggestions or even bugs you find and "feature requests" on the bug tracker on github.

If you'd like to get more closely involved by working with a team, you should contact them directly. Start at the WhosWho or Team Pages. For example the Development Team can always use good people. If you have any questions or are not sure where to start you can send an email to suggestions@soylentnews.org.

Documentation

This team:

• Answers support and contact emails
• Tracks volunteers and staff
• Collects Suggestions

Goals for the future:

• Utilize community feedback selecting suggestions for implementation
• Investigate staff and community Communication Systems

Depenencies

Dependencies for this group include:

• SN Mailboxes and forwards:
  • admin@SN
  • suggestions@SN
  • mail is hosted on the service linode
• IRC Bot
  • !suggestion (currently de-activated)

Projects

• New (final) Name Vote (mrcoolbp, audioguy, MrBluze)
  • New Names Shortlist (will be revised)
    • soylentnews
    • port119.net
    • baconnews.org baconnews.net (baconnews.net was suggested as it can be "BNN")
    • nerdcard.net
    • geekcard.org
    • dailybacon.org
    • ionews.org

• Migrate mailing list addresses to new @SN.org addresses
• Develop process for becoming staff (get @SN.org email, get on mailing list, privileges, orientation booklet, etc.)
• Get email and IRC "!suggestions" piped directly to wiki)
• Clarify lameness filter paramaters (This has been partially fixed with upcoming slash updates that are in the testing phases. Lameness filter will be able to show its error codes) <-remove
• Contact CmdrTaco via twitter?