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April 2010 meeting

April 5, 2010, 3:05 pm

XRDS: April 2010 Editors’ meeting

Agenda

1.  Progress report for new launch issue

  • You all did a marvelous job!
  • Adrian Johnson will be illustrating the magazine’s cover
  • Files are with production/layout team
  • Marketing has been my focus lately; there are a lot of components and it’s slow going
  • Inbal is finishing up an invitation letter to send to potential advisory board members
    • we need these before the issue can be approved
    • will have to hurry this along a bit
  • Questions? Outstanding issues?

2.  Progress report for web site development

  • XRDS.acm.org in beta in about 3 weeks (dev site – DO NOT SHARE)!
  • Jill will be speaking with the web team later today on next steps
  • We’ll need a sub-committee or web team (more on this in a moment)

3.  Procedures for “passing the torch”

  • Both good and bad news: a couple of our editors will be finishing their degrees soon and hence leaving XRDS.
  • We need to have a plan for exiting editors to indoctrinate new editors – give them the rundown.
    • Sumit N.
    • Ryan Ko
  • It’s okay with me if editors stay on for issues that will be published after they graduate

4.  Forming sub-committees, or specialized teams

  • Web team
    • Copy writers for web site “About Us” pages, etc.
    • beta testers
      • XRDS.acm.org
      • http://www.editorialmanager.com/xrds/Magazine
    • Copy editing team (may be the same people who wear different hats, or could be new recruits)
    • Recruiting team to get advisors
    • Recruiting team to get new editors

5.  Status of next issue – Rob, Michael Ashley-Rollman, James Stanier

 6.  Q&A?

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