Community Journalism

Attendees:
Lynn Siprelle
Shane Korytko
Ankur naik
Bill Hunter
Shane - IndyMedia
Roland Tanglao

Shane-- cherrypicking from Drupal and other CMS's
have other customizations

Lynn -- Background in journalism
Now a programmer. Worked on the propagannon

Roland -- UrbanVancouver to collect blogs

Bill Hunter -- journalism degree
condensing information
tried webcrossing

Ankar-- does IT for magazine

QUESTIONS
1. What do we want from journalism?
2. How do journalism process
3. How can Drupal do it better?

Q3:
Roland: install profiles for specific needs. preconfigured.
Lynn: clients want to know what to do it.
Roland:

Q2:
Shane: Community-building leads to journalism.
Indymedia, activists who act like
Find additional people.

Q1. Reputation, trust
Semi-private

Q3. Drupal: strengths in categories, custom subscriptions
Ideals

Bill: Q1 feedback model

Q4: Challenges & questions
Comment spam, machine . flaming. Need volunteer gardeners.
Sending comments to a related forum.
Rewarding people for contributions

"non-deadline"

Problems: Legal issues of publications. How much editorial control
How do you bless community moderators.
"points" modules. Also see Slashcode.
"Mojo" inflation is a problem.

Different ways to present data.
Publish and subscribe. Tracking