[ZizLah]

that'd be good

[TheGentleman]

OK well everything has been discussed. Sorry for not getting back here sooner to progress the meeting further.

6. FAQ, discussion and conclusion.

News team statistics were discussed:

TheGentleman: http://www.sc2sea.com/showpost.php?p=137254&postcount=2

• Concerns about minimum expected articles not being met.
• Suggestions to increase article numbers including:
  • Additional regular articles (like the Roster Review).
  • Increasing motivation.
• A realistic goal of 384 articles was suggested.

Breadfan: http://www.sc2sea.com/showpost.php?p=137265&postcount=3

• Concerns about quality of posts versus quantity. Would rather see newsworthy articles being posted than the minimum being met.
• Automate the news process where possible (i.e. Blizzard news feed).
• Review "hot" topics over the past 6 months to work out what the people of SC2SEA like. Try and post more of these kinds of articles.
• Suggestion to change the minimum to X if I want X articles per month rather than setting the expected to X.

TheGentleman: http://www.sc2sea.com/showpost.php?p=137273&postcount=4

• Agreed with breadfan's concern about quality versus quantity. Raised concern about how to measure the work submitted by the news team.
• Agreed with breadfan's the automation idea. Provided graphical suggestion for new SC2SEA news section layout. Create an SC2SEA NewsBot.
• Provided insight about why we're aiming to post all news rather than just some news. Goal: To become a major news hub and for that to be achieved we need to make SC2SEA a one stop news shop (figuratively speaking).
• Agreed with breadfan's suggestion to review the past 6 months of news.
• Disagreed with changing the minimum expected posts because the system is imperfect. Welcomed additional suggestions for other measurement systems.

Breadfan: http://www.sc2sea.com/showpost.php?p=137277&postcount=5

• No such thing as too much information. Agrees to keep the minimum's system and suggests that I (TheGentleman) should just make subjective calls if I'm concerned.
• RSS Feed suggestion regarding news feed automation.
• News hub suggestion... full article here: http://www.sc2sea.com/showthread.php?t=6823

Zizlah: http://www.sc2sea.com/showpost.php?p=137278&postcount=6

• Mentions that he doesn't like the copy-paste mentality that has been established by the news team.

TheGentleman: http://www.sc2sea.com/showpost.php?p=137357&postcount=7

• Agrees with the news hub idea.

Dingobloo: http://www.sc2sea.com/showpost.php?p=137379&postcount=8

• Until breadfan's news hub idea comes to fruition the current news feed pushes useful SEA news off the front of the site. This is a problem.
• Get news team volunteers to write about stuff that keeps them interested rather than turning it into a job.
• Provided a nice list of priorities to follow when determining what good things to post about.
• Would like to push SEA news in the direction of quality rather than quantity if possible.

nirvAnA: http://www.sc2sea.com/showpost.php?p=137406&postcount=9

• Suggested a news ticker rather than a news hub. Similar to that of http://mmo-champion.com/content
• No one uses the submit news feature other than antelope (true story).

We came up with some ideas to push content when there's nothing better to talk about.

TheGentleman: http://www.sc2sea.com/showpost.php?p...2&postcount=10

• Provides suggestions for new content:
  • Upcoming Sea Events/Players
  • Look out for...
  • Player summaries...
  • etc... (though most of the above listed are already covered by the writing team).
• Asks if there are any other types of articles the news team would like to see written.
• Asks if anyone else out there wants to try their hand at the SC2SEA Wrap Up.

Breadfan: http://www.sc2sea.com/showpost.php?p...1&postcount=11

• Adding to the ideas for additional content:
  • Editorials
  • Up & Coming player spotlight.
• Reminds us that some members of the site such as team/clan leaders may prefer to provide announcements of their own news.
  • On that note however also suggests that these people come to the news team in advance so we can ensure that the "thead gets maximum exposure".

TheGentleman: http://www.sc2sea.com/showpost.php?p...4&postcount=12

• Adds to the list of suggestions: Interviews.

We review the roles for 2013:

• Breadfan: http://www.sc2sea.com/showpost.php?p...1&postcount=20
• dingobloo: http://www.sc2sea.com/showpost.php?p...5&postcount=14
• MezjE: No Reply.
• Mox: http://www.sc2sea.com/showpost.php?p...0&postcount=15
• Rogue: http://www.sc2sea.com/showpost.php?p...7&postcount=16
• Switch: No Reply.
• TheGentleman: http://www.sc2sea.com/showpost.php?p...3&postcount=18
• ZizLah: http://www.sc2sea.com/showpost.php?p...1&postcount=17

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Are there any other things people would like to discuss, questions to ask, etc... before I end this meeting.

Also feel free to let me know what you thought of having the meeting in this way rather than through Skype .

Kind Regards,