Forum OpenACS Q&A: Volunteer job: News Coordinator

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1: Volunteer job: News Coordinator
Posted by Joel Aufrecht on 05/04/04 10:09 AM
If you are an OpenACS user who is not currently active in the community but would like to be, please consider a few ways you could contribute:

News Coordinator. We should be making better use of openacs.org News as low-noise, no-discussion. Anybody can submit a news item, and News already has moderation features. So what we need is an active news coordinator. Duties:

  1. Checks for submitted news items every few days
  2. Approved valid news items
  3. Contacts people who have submitted unacceptable news items and helps them edit their news items or change them into forum posts
  4. Follow the OpenACS.org forums, identifies news-worthy posts, and edits them into news items
  5. Report bugs and usability problems in the news system
In my opinion, News should be limited to:
  • Announcements for developers, such as branching and merging
  • Releases of OpenACS Core and of distributions and packages
  • OpenACS-based site launches
  • Media coverage
  • OpenACS events, such as meetings and trade show appearances
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2: Re: Volunteer job: News Coordinator (response to 1)
Posted by Cathy Sarisky on 05/05/04 05:48 AM
Joel - I can do this.
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3: Re: Volunteer job: News Coordinator (response to 2)
Posted by Joel Aufrecht on 05/05/04 09:59 AM
great.  Do you already have access?  There are four old, unapproved items in the queue already that should be approved or deleted.
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4: Re: Volunteer job: News Coordinator (response to 3)
Posted by Cathy Sarisky on 05/05/04 05:46 PM
I do not.
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5: Re: Volunteer job: News Coordinator (response to 4)
Posted by Joel Aufrecht on 05/05/04 06:14 PM
Try now (there are three Cathy Sarisky accounts plus a C Sarisky, and you could need either news_admin or admin or both, so if attempt 1 doesn't work, I'll grant all eight permissions).