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 was suggested
• GetLDAP setup

Communications

• Community Discussion:
  • story submissions on main site
  • Consider.it try a Demo (drag and drop "pros" and "cons")

• Community Polling:
  • survey monkey (3rd party)
  • Debvotee (perl?)

• Staff Communication Forum
  • Mailing list
  • redmine (Ruby on Rails)
  • Trac
  • InterTwinkles (looks ideal but uses JS)
  • Use slashcode
    • See: AudioGuyWorkNotes

• Clarify lameness filter paramaters
• New Name contest (final one, we hope)

• • New Names Shortlist (may 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

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?