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Post by David Rush on Jan 24, 2013 17:56:52 GMT
Hi everyone, As your new Chair (I'm assuming that's official now), I'm going to make up an agenda for Monday's meeting so that we can stay as focused as possible during the two hour session. So I take it we're having some kind of election for Chief Editor? I was thinking that perhaps if there are nine people who want to be on the editing team, we could have one Chief Editor, six Editors and two Proofreaders. That way everyone who wants to edit is happy, but ultimately the group decides who will lead that team. The only thing I can think of that needs to be put on the agenda for Monday is the election and perhaps some more brainstorming about the format of the Journal (print or ebook/some form of website), the structure of the Journal, ideas about fundraising and how much financing we will have to begin with. I'd like you to e-mail if there's anything that you want me to put on the agenda: david.rush@strath.ac.uk  |
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Post by Cheryl on Jan 24, 2013 18:45:18 GMT
Congrats, David on officially gaining the role of Chair! Sounds like a really good plan. It's hard to keep things focused and an agenda seems like a good idea. I'm assuming that most of the other roles are now filled for the class? (It was a bit jumbled and noisy today so telling was difficult, or I'm just slow...) I think having the actual editorial team elect the chief editor is a really good idea. The editors will all need to liaise closely with them, so developing or already having a good relationship is important. Structure, format, fundraising and financing sound like good initial topics too Looking forward to making some more progess next week! |
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Post by Gemma on Jan 24, 2013 19:10:34 GMT
I think having an agenda is a good idea!
Just to let you know (since I was up the front and actually heard everything lol, it was very noisy!) there are 10 editors, inc Claire, who I think we decided was chief editor since nobody else wanted to be? Like the idea of having proofreaders though!
Gemma x
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Post by michelle_mod on Jan 24, 2013 19:29:31 GMT
I'll post the list we got together today on the assigning roles section - of course any confusion we should try to get it sorted out first thing on Monday.
From a marketing and advertising point of view I'd like to see us agree on a title and start work on a mission statement etc so that we can get to work setting up a facebook page and a website etc. - if we can get it set up soon and route emails to printers and other people through our domain name it might look more professional too.
I'd like to see some serious fundraising plans together too, whether applications to the uni or events at the union.
I'd also like to see some timescales for getting our pieces in for editing, and the sooner the better - the assignment that we submit in February must already have approval from the editorial team as it WILL have to go in the journal (at least that's my reading of the handbook).
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Post by jennifer on Jan 24, 2013 19:55:21 GMT
Sounds like pretty much everything is covered. As Chief Pencil Pusher, I'll keep a list of all the ideas that everybody comes up with and post them on this forum. That way we can keep track of who's doing what and how exactly we're going to raise funds and go about writing this thing. Shall we have a discussion at next lecture about who's going to write what (prose, poetry, articles, short stories, etc) Oh well, that's all I guess. Good way to start things off |
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Post by Gemma on Jan 24, 2013 20:03:27 GMT
Great idea Jennifer to see who's going to be writing what! I think that's really important x
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Post by melissa on Jan 24, 2013 20:22:58 GMT
We also maybe need to come to a decision about what we need to do over the next few weeks, so we could maybe write out a basic schedule of what we broadly want to achieve in the next student-led classes. I wonder if each sub team (e.g. editing team, marketing team, design team etc) should split up and talk about what they think they need to do in their roles? Probably research is the major thing for the first week...
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Post by David Rush on Jan 24, 2013 23:58:58 GMT
Oh, so are we not having an election for Chief Editor now then?
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Post by michelle_mod on Jan 25, 2013 0:00:40 GMT
I'm not sure if anyone else but Claire wanted the job - but then again it was pretty difficult to hear anything there today.
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Post by David Rush on Jan 25, 2013 0:04:13 GMT
I know Claire was up for it, but I thought Dave and Dean were too, so I wasn't sure if we were still having an election for it.
We'll be able to clarify when they reply to this post, I guess, haha!
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Post by clairealexander on Jan 26, 2013 14:44:05 GMT
Hey!
Dean wanted a design position and although Dave was up for Chief Editor he didn't want to oppose me and feel my wrath.
Even I wasn't entirely sure whether or not I was officially Chief Editor after Thursday's class.
I'd like to be but only if folk are happy about it...
I agree with Michelle's earlier post about getting the teams concentrating on jobs asap and getting a mission statement together so we can get to work on our stories.
Perhaps we should compile a weekly schedule of tasks which have to be completed?
I've sent an e-mail to Catherine Baird, the Editor of Valve who came to speak to us, to see if I can pick her brain over a coffee. I'll try and get a few meetings like this set up for Week 2 and we can choose which aspects of their strategies will work for us.
Claire
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