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It's super enormous and a little jarring. Not sure what graphic we could use in its place on that page tho. However, it is a hell of a graphic that we should use somewhere.

This is now at the top of the homepage, so I want to explicitly request a team review on it:

OpenNews is a joint project of Mozilla and the Knight Foundation dedicated to helping journalism thrive on the open web by supporting the international community of developers, designers, and data journalists in newsrooms.

Note: I'm using "joint project" instead of "partnership" because although the latter is accurate, it's a weird as the main noun defining OpenNews.

when we launch the blog, there will be a feed for it available at: opennews.org/feed.xml

the actual feed for the site is pointing to planet, NOT to this feed.

My inclination is that we keep the feed in pointing to planet and we use this feed as a source for planet

so two questions here:

1. do we keep the feed as planet and
2. how do we add this feed to planet?

I am not in love with it. Here's the existing one, and I'll work on revisions this week:

OpenNews is a joint project of Mozilla and the Knight Foundation that helps journalism thrive on the open web by supporting the growing community of news developers, designers, and data-wranglers.

http://mozillaopennews.org seems to still be owned by Mozilla (according to whois), and there's a DNS record for it, but the site is down. Is http://opennews.org supposed to be the new location and it's just missing a redirect?

$ whois mozillaopennews.org
Domain Name: MOZILLAOPENNEWS.ORG
Domain ID: D164462254-LROR
WHOIS Server:
Referral URL: http://www.markmonitor.com
Updated Date: 2015-12-19T10:03:25Z
Creation Date: 2012-01-19T13:02:12Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2018-01-19T13:02:12Z
Sponsoring Registrar: MarkMonitor Inc.
Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 292
Domain Status: clientDeleteProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Domain Status: clientUpdateProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited
Registrant ID: mmr-33682
Registrant Name: DNS Admin
Registrant Organization: Mozilla Corporation
Registrant Street: 331 E. Evelyn Ave
Registrant City: Mountain View
Registrant State/Province: CA
Registrant Postal Code: 94041
Registrant Country: US
Registrant Phone: +1.6509030800
Registrant Phone Ext:
Registrant Fax:
Registrant Fax Ext:
Registrant Email: [email protected]
Admin ID: mmr-33682
Admin Name: DNS Admin
Admin Organization: Mozilla Corporation
Admin Street: 331 E. Evelyn Ave
Admin City: Mountain View
Admin State/Province: CA
Admin Postal Code: 94041
Admin Country: US
Admin Phone: +1.6509030800
Admin Phone Ext:
Admin Fax:
Admin Fax Ext:
Admin Email: [email protected]
Tech ID: mmr-33682
Tech Name: DNS Admin
Tech Organization: Mozilla Corporation
Tech Street: 331 E. Evelyn Ave
Tech City: Mountain View
Tech State/Province: CA
Tech Postal Code: 94041
Tech Country: US
Tech Phone: +1.6509030800
Tech Phone Ext:
Tech Fax:
Tech Fax Ext:
Tech Email: [email protected]
Name Server: NS-1359.AWSDNS-41.ORG
Name Server: NS-1627.AWSDNS-11.CO.UK
Name Server: NS-667.AWSDNS-19.NET
Name Server: NS-397.AWSDNS-49.COM
DNSSEC: unsigned
>>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2016-09-02T13:08:29Z <<<

$ dig mozillaopennews.org

; <<>> DiG 9.10.4-P2 <<>> mozillaopennews.org
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 26822
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;mozillaopennews.org.       IN  A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
mozillaopennews.org.    899 IN  SOA ns-1359.awsdns-41.org. awsdns-hostmaster.amazon.com. 1 7200 900 1209600 86400

;; Query time: 175 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.1#53(192.168.1.1)
;; WHEN: Fri Sep 02 09:17:50 EDT 2016
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 130

This ended up being lost in the transition from the Monday announcement + the update pull

relates to issue #194

setting aside the email strategy conversation, are we pointing people to two separate lists for separate purposes (mailchimp: https://source.opennews.org/en-US/subscribe/ and mojo: https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/community-mojo)?

if yes, we should audit email links to make sure they refer people to the appropriate list for the purpose.
if no, we should decide which is the single list, and update all references to that list.

The link is in the same graf as the other text, but it's rendering with a line break, which makes me think there's a style somewhere rendering links here as block elements. @sinker?

not such which page is supposed to be why.html but currently it is nonexistant and breaks the fellowship menu as a result. @kissane any guidance?

opening this issue to loop @jdotpz in. We need to collect a list of AALLLLLLL the pages that are changing location and ALLLLLLL the new pages that replace them.

JP, how would you like that information delivered?

@kissane I am not sure what this means

@kissane I've noticed that you've moved titles to pages above images on some pages where that was not previously the case. Is that intentional? I can simplify that if so, because right now we have post_notitle for pages with images vs normal post pages. could stop calling the _notitle template if so.

Can we title case the program entries?That seems consistent with our subhead capitalization. The all lowercase just seems jarring compared to Source, MozFest, and the general site style (aside from the top menu items).

Sorry for the slight delay - hope this has come in soon enough.

So as reported when you start using our new planet feed (http://planet.opennews.org/rss yeah?) the embedded news feed breaks and doesn't show any links.

This is due to it having a slightly different format to the old one and doesn't contain the authors name in the title.

Pull request with fix incoming!

• the intro block is LONG. can we break up into two sections?
• Also, maybe it's possible to shorten this:
  "The developers, journalists, and data wranglers who make up the news code community work in newsrooms (and affiliated organizations) around the world, shipping interactive features, code libraries, and support systems at newsroom pace: fast."

like, either give the list of people and that they work at newsroom pace: fast OR say "the news code community" and list the types of work. basically, it seems like we don't need to list both the people and the things they do, but listing either or would give the same information and make this a snappier opening.
also, maybe we can pull the shorthand for the community from whatever we decide from #203

• link up Source Jobs in the Source blurb
• in the event sponsorship section the final link should be to the sponsorship page directly: /what/community/eventsupport.html
• maybe also rename the event sponsorship to event support so it matches the menu item?

Need to match to fellowship pages in the sidebar menu and title case

I just realized that the fellowship application page (http://mozillaopennews.org/fellowships/apply.html) on the site does NOT automatically update from the Blue State Digital form (https://sendto.mozilla.org/page/signup/join-knight-mozilla-fellows). What's the best way to update the application page?

I added a section to the BSD form that should show up on that application page too. This is the section:
Additional information
Do you speak any languages other than English? If yes, please list them.
How did you hear about the fellowship?

Thanks for the help!

@jdotpz: #228 created a 404 page which works locally, but up on jenkins still getting crusty old useless ones. not sure what's going on here, but I'm guessing it needs your assistance.

in addition to the general opennews email in the footer, our mozilla email addresses should be accessible via our bios on the site. i will update this later, but just wanted to log a ticket while i was thinking about it.

Hey JP, I think you originally got us set up with this. It seems it may have gotten borked in the email migration. Can you help us find out who is now getting these emails? Prior to the email migration, it was set up to email all of us--me, Dan, Erin, and Ryan. I think we also had a [email protected] and maybe also a [email protected] email set up.

Thanks for any info on this.

we should also play around with :nth-child on this instead of the p class=bodybig

So thinking about the sidebar nav, do we want that top heading to be a litlte more active, like "Learn More About"

some updates:

• title should reflect title in issue #197
  concluding paragraph:
  If you have any questions about becoming a fellowship partner for 2016, [mailto: [email protected] please contact us]. In the spring of 2015, we'll update this page with details about the application process to become a fellowship partner. And if being a fellowship partner doesn’t sound like a fit for your news organization next year, please check out the many other ways we [/getinvolved/newspartners.html partner with newsrooms].

(Exact wording up for editing, mostly just want to remove the form. We may update the form and I don't think we want to be on the hook for monitoring responses outside of the application period.)

needs a link to announcement list
could make match issue #211 OR link to the mojo page: https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/community-mojo

I'm stumbling over this sentence a little:
"Join us in discussions, hands-on making, and wireframing, and help explore new ways to visualize data, present information, and foster connections between people interested in harnessing the power of the web to create great journalism."

Maybe "MozFest is a place for discussions, hands-on making, and wireframing. It's a chance to explore new ways to visualize data, present information, and foster connections between people interested in harnessing the power of the web to create great journalism."

• does this replace the hackdays page? if no, how are they different?
• if it replaces, remove the hackdays link in the first line.
• if it replaces, we may need to move over the tabletop code block so we can list events, or just deprecate that since the events have become far less frequent.
• if it replaces, we should just link to the Source events listing somewhere in here too. Easiest place might be an addtional line in the second paragraph.
• if based on issue #218 we're deprecating call wiki, we should switch community call link to /what/community/calls.html
• in the list of projects, Treasury.io is listed twice, remove the second listing

They need to have more space above and less below:

http://opennews.mofostaging.net/blog/nicar/

currently:
Get the latest by subscribing to our news feed
Connect on Twitter @OpenNews
Check our our Wiki
Join our mailing list
Contact us

Questions:
remove the wiki listing?
which email list should we be pointing people to?
which contact us email? probably [email protected]

Question -- is this meant to replace the wiki page for calls?

• updates to second paragraph:
  "You can participate by calling in and listening, reading along on the etherpad during or after the call, or by [mailto: [email protected] contacting us] to get onto the agenda as a speaker—the calls are informal and friendly and a great way to ease into the wider conversation."

If this is replacing the wiki, we can remove the link to the wiki. Could replace it with: etherpad for next call: next call, January 21: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/opennews-calls-Jan21

and we should add two more etherpads:
December 10, 2014: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/opennews-calls-Dec10
January 7, 2015: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/opennews-calls-Jan7

going to start listing pages that just need help with how text is rendering

• the code convening example block looks a little weird, I think cause the list has slightly different styling than paragraph blocks.

Placeholder for text updates to: http://opennews.org/what/fellowships/partnerguidelines/

to include a big call out for people to sign up to hear when the application has been posted and the application timeline details.

the "find out more" link is missing a /what/ in the URL and redirects to homepage rather than the meet page.

This is a very nicely made site, and I would love to use it as a guide as I develop my own Jekyll site. What kind of license applies to this project? Would it be ok to fork and reuse parts of it?

• link in first paragraph "the inaugural srccon" should be to srccon site (currently links to the page we are on)
• in the final paragraph, need to link to the SRCCON emai list, which I think is this link? https://source.opennews.org/en-US/subscribe/ (I don't know what the URL for the email subscription directly would be, but if there's a URL that doesn't take you to a different website, that seems great)

Nice to haves

• links to blog posts related to SRCCON
• maybe a little blurb about when we expect to share info about SRCCON 2015?

@kissane I am not sure I know what this means.

manifesting as http://opennews.org/blog/blog/post instead of opennews.org/blog/post