Items for ACM HQ meeting
Core:
- How are we doing?
- Thematic Issues, good/bad?
- Recruiting new editors, how?
- Motivation for current editors?
- Guest Issue editors, good/bad?
- Current team structure, good/bad?
- How can we increase the impact of XRDS (make it more like CACM in this sense)? E.g., distribute free hardcopies in leading CS departments and at major conferences, get more press coverage (perhaps by having an editor dedicated to this task), what else?
- Creating a larger buffer for working on an issue. For example, can we pick the guest editor 2 issues in advance.
- Where are communications breakpoints?
- Review departments, what is good/bad?
- new EiC
- Website efforts
Meta:
- What is a student magazine – what is our mission?
- Is a magazine the best thing for students?
- What should we change?
- Where to expand XRDS?
- Choose copy editors
- What do readers like about us/want to improve in XRDS?
- XRDS promotion. We don’t do a lot, do we?
- How to keep a safe distance from CACM?
- Advertising call for editors, good/bad?
- Plans for the next issue – Startups
Blue Sky Thinking: If we had unlimited funding, what would we do? P.S. - We also listed something while planning the face-2-face in the previous year at: http://xrdseditors.acm.org/?page_id=1317