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Greetings, Soylentils. First of all, I want to thank you, the community, for the outpouring of support during these past few weeks. The participation has been amazing, and I'd like to personally thank each and every one of you for your help in a successful launch so far. Unfortunately, I can't thank every one of you individually. As of this writing, there are over 3500 registered users!
Now, we promised to be transparent, and we intend to deliver. Our first (and right now, only) all-hands staff meeting is at 1800 UTC on 2 March, and will be held on our IRC channels.
The staff will be holding the meeting on #Staff at irc.dev.soylentnews.org. Only staff will be able to log into and speak on that channel. However, our IRC folks will be re-broadcasting this on the public channel, #Soylent. If you aren't familiar with IRC, please review Landon's recent post (we have a web client available as well). Many of our staff members will be monitoring both channels, and we will try to have the opportunity for questions. Conducting this meeting will be one of many learning experiences for us, so feel free to pipe up and say your piece.
Items on the agenda include a vision statement from our founder, an overview of staff organization from me(draft available here), general status update from each group, as well as proposals for future development. You may notice some missing names in the org chart. Please contact us at suggestions @ soylentnews dot. org if you are interested in volunteering or working here.
As always, thanks for being a part of this great community!
~mattie_p, general manager
(Score: 2) by Open4D on Sunday March 02 2014, @02:13PM
Maybe there will be collaborative editing with a portion of the community, and the rest of the community still wants to look at the latest version?
Personally I'm too lazy / busy to care much about what JS gets loaded by most of the websites I use. But if I had time for that kind of thing I would probably want to have some kind of sand-box where I could accept all the JS they could throw at me if there was some value to me in it.
But anyway, can you get to the ODF version without accepting any JS?: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1doOI5O_VHEUjUd mqmSzwbf6UZwARjbLNqBM9PnkYiLQ/export?format=odt [google.com]
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As for those simply criticizing the choice of Google, well, fair enough. Personally I use Google Docs heavily but do intend to look into the possibility of switching away from it as soon as I don't have anything more important to do. Maybe the relevant SN volunteers are in the same position?
(Score: 1) by Marand on Sunday March 02 2014, @09:42PM
The ODF export works just fine, opened it in LO Writer without having to change anything with NoScript or my cookie blocking. Thanks for pointing it out, hopefully if they continue to use GDocs they notice your post and start using it instead.
It also solves both of my primary gripes with the setup they used: it lets me use a native app, and I don't have to screw with noscript or open another browser to view it.