PWGD
Everyone's Voices, Nobody's Noise: Help choose what your community – and the world – needs to know.
As submitted to the Knight News Challenge. (See this proposal on their submission site.)
Describe your project: *
Everyone's Voices, Nobody's Noise post-submission strategy session with Nathaniel Catchpole
<ben-agaric> All right. My brain's utterly fried. Do you see a starting point with this stuff? For a while I felt that a modular messaging framework, a whole replacement for Sympa / Mailman / that stuff was necessary, and while I think ultimately it is (and was going to be a second application to Knight, and if I can get a grasp on the field and put a proposal together will
Agaric and lots of others need: an open source, modular messaging framework
In the context of an e-mail / mailing list manager:
Legal liability for other people's contributed content on your web site
David Ardia on Immunity and Liability for User Content Under the Communications Decency Act:
1. If you passively host third-party content, you will be fully protected against defamation and defamation-like claims under CDA 230.
Making a random number
PWGD will need solid and fast randomization to make the jury pools. (With those who have already served pulled out, but that's another detail.)
It's well known that computers aren't good at random.
A, B, C, D... Ordered Lists in HTML with CSS
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/generate.html#list-style
list-style-type: upper-alpha
See roottruth stylesheet for implementation.
Getting Started with Getting Things Done
Obtain People Who Give a Damn 501(c)3 nonprofit status.
* Revise application.
* Print application.
* Find/look up application form and address.
* Mail to lawyer.
[This is a very old note, but it's proof that GTD works. I never completed the beginning of the system (deal with all your present junk) and certainly never looked at this note again-- but it worked, PWGD has 501c3!]
Promoting Ubuntu without subsidizing bad media: some proposals
[A post to a lengthening thread on the Massachusetts Ubuntu e-mail list about raising $250,000 to put an Ubuntu ad in the New York Times.]
It's a lot (probably too much) to ask any group or organization to be the first, but we the people who give a damn about our human condition have to break a dependence on media that help the unconscionable become accepted.
E-mail mailing list managers brief discussion in IRC
---: killes: so, my plan is to get the shiny new subscriptions module (beta expected on Sunday) on drupal.org , removing the subscriptions code from project module. While there, it could replace simplenews.
[07:09am] killes: hmm
[07:09am] killes: the problem with both of them is that they use php's mail()
[07:09am] ---: Be my guest
