Preparing for Jan 20 meeting
Tony
At our last meeting at Kell's, I promised to circulate a draft
proposal for a web-based investigative journalism outfit in time for
you to digest prior to our scheduled meeting on Wednesday evening
January 20.
My goal is to get this draft to you ideally by this Friday (January
15) but absolutely no later than next Monday (January 18).
When we meet on January 20 we can make any necessary substantive
changes. I'll then polish it up in short order.
Look out for a message from Emily regarding the exact time and
location of our January 20 meeting.
Tony
Steven Suo
Give me a call sometime. Jay and I have been meeting with the bigger
WMTM group as well, and I can give you an update on where that's
going. I am at 503-936-3769.
Steve Suo
Bill Lascher
There's a "bigger WMTM group" that has been meeting? Or did you mean the WMTM incubator or one of the other projects that started as an offshoot of the conference? If it's the incubator, cool, because I'm most up to date about that. But if there is another, seperate, moe lre inclusive WMTM group then I'm out of the loop, and as a participant in the conference it would be nice to know what has been going on among other participants, especially if inclusive.
Bill Lascher
www.lascheratlarge.com
EHarris
The "bigger" group is different from the incubator group. It's working
in part on similar goals as this one. We decided to work separately
for a couple of reasons, but are likely heading toward convergence.
You can follow the other group here:
http://groups.google.com/group/wemakethemedia
Hope to see you Wednesday!
On Jan 11, 4:50 pm, Bill Lascher <blasc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry to jump into this conversation, but since I'm getting these emails
> (which I appreciate -- and now that I'm in portland I hope to keep tabs or
> possibly be involved in the investigative project) I thought I'd ask one
> question.
>
> There's a "bigger WMTM group" that has been meeting? Or did you mean the
> WMTM incubator or one of the other projects that started as an offshoot of
> the conference? If it's the incubator, cool, because I'm most up to date
> about that. But if there is another, seperate, moe lre inclusive WMTM group
> then I'm out of the loop, and as a participant in the conference it would be
> nice to know what has been going on among other participants, especially if
> inclusive.
>
> Bill Lascherwww.lascheratlarge.com
>
EHarris
to the same group I am.
They renamed themselves the Oregon News Incubator. Still original
googlegroup site, as listed above.
Another project coming out of WMTM was an incubator for freelancers, a
plan to develop a physical networking type place. That, I think, is
still separate.
Bill Lascher
Actually, I'm plugged into the ONI project pretty thoroughly (I was in the breakout that came up with that proposal at the WMTM conference. I also have been following these wmtminvestigate emails from LA (where I was until moving up here this week). I guess what I'm trying to get a sense of is what Steve meant by a bigger WMTM group. Was that the third, somewhat amorphously identified project that was selected at the event in November
I ask because in addition to helping the ONI people out I'm trying to get plugged into the larger journalism community here in Oregon and just trying to make sure I'm not out of the loop on something (and that, by extension, others who want to be involved aren't out of the loop).
All that said, I appreciate the updates and, again, now that I'm here I will look forward to Wednesday to get more of a first-hand sense of things.
Bill Lascher
www.lascheratlarge.com
Courtney Sherwood
The local chapter Society for Professional Journalists is talking
about ways to better support all of the interesting and innovative
ideas that are circulating around Portland/Oregon these days. In
addition to my involvement with WMTM, I sit on the SPJ board.
If nobody has any objections, I'd like to be considered an informal
representative of SPJ as I continue my involvement with this effort.
The society has a very lean budget this year, so its ability to help
financially is limited, but it has other resources -- including e-mail
and snail mail lists of journalists from around the region, a bit of a
megaphone, and occasionally national-level support. My involvement
with WMTM will continue unabated, but I'd like to keep SPJ updated on
how things are going with the group, and keep the group informed of
any SPJ efforts or abilities it should be aware of. Sound OK?
See you all Wednesday at Backspace.
Courtney