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
  • Develop task-list of ongoing duties from each "group" <-underway
• Regular status updates with key leaders
• Organize staff, delegate tasks to qualified people
• Fire people when it isn't working out sooner rather than later (this should go in ongoing duties task-list once created)
• password sharing, multi-factor protection (see: http://point-at-infinity.org/ssss/ for an example)
  • Getting LDAP setup would aid in this endeavor

Communications

• 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 (this would require some ruby on rails help devs)
  • Use slashcode test server (would require tweaks but we could test new code while communicating, moderating best ideas etc.)
    • See: AudioGuyWorkNotes
  • Aquire concensus
  • Cut the dead weight (nuke forums from orbit after data migration to wiki)
• Clarify our stance on vulgarity in comments (ALL CAPS is preventing posting in some cases (filter) swears seem to work)
• New Name contest (final one, we hope)
  • New Names Shortlist:
    • soylentnews
    • port119.net
    • baconnews.org baconnews.net
    • 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))

Business/Legal

• 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?