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January 16, 2024
List of agenda items:
Tech:
- Frustrations with big blue button? Zoom?
- Training for backend
- possibly w/ cloud68
Content
- Publication arm: Revamp stories etc
- Posting frequency etc, participation from curators?
- Group moderation: https://pad.riseup.net/p/edcgrouprecon-keep
- Group related updates
CONTENT:
M: Needs content, will gain traction with regular updates.
- Ongoing tasks: Post regularly
- EVENTS CALENDAR:
- Red emma’s events
- Other outlets to follow?
- A: Research: forms to survey everyone? Newsletter post on engagement
Al: Comissioning posts/ Publication of stories
- 1 paid post a month, 10 over the year (maybe not every post paid)
- Theme for the year? Designed for Doom
- LAUNCH SLATE:
- 3-5 articles ready to go by a launch date
- FORM FOR PITCHING STORIES:
- Different tiers for payment, etc.
- Submission numbers: how to advertise?
- Newsletter/ campus/ anth magazines
- Call for pitches
- Before call for pitches, have a proof of concept where specific people are targeted to write
- Share a story (change to write for us) instead of linking to a post, its a page that explains what we are looking for
- “Submit to the Editorial Collective”
- Doesn’t foreclose
ACTIONS FOR LAUNCH:
- (Jonas) follow up/ docs/ execution
- (Jonas) Rebrand of the name: DECOMPOSITIONS:
- (alaa) options for logos etc
- (Mike) Landing page for “Write for us”/ Who are the administrators/ editors/ committee
- (ANAND) Clean up and re organize layout; “Magazine space”
- Reformat legacy posts
- Whatever new structure has room for administrative/ housekeeping stories
- (Jonas) BEGIN CURATING Slate for the launch “issue”/ stories order within EDC website layout
- SPECULATIVE DATE: END OF MARCH
General (air group) Action Points:
- Write once a week and LINK TO TWITTER
Non-immediate strategizing:
- Thinking through how submissions look like in relation to us developing discourse on what ecological design is, what it isn’t and what it could be
- (Anand) Eventually, in the long run, the magazine may be a seperate platform, not necessary within EDC community platform itself, but a seperate web space of its own and linking it. Anand will check feasibiity and technical options