Planning for RootsWire

September 14, 2008 by Steve Hanson

I'm setting up this organic group in RootsWire with the intention of building a closed are for discussing the future of RootsWire.  This will include a lot of different possibilities - at the moment I'm thinking hard about what RootsWire should be, why anyone would want to participate, and how we should proceed.  

A large part of this includes how we will fund this project - I think there are a lot of possibilities for this, and we should start using some of the toolkit available to us to build a discussion area.  At the moment, since it's pressing on my mind, this discussion (at least my part of it) will concentrate heavily on funding issues, and what structure this should take as an organization.  In particular, I'm starting to work on some funding application both for the Knight News Challenge and for the Knight Drupal Initiative.  

Right at the moment this group involves only myself and Borges.  As interested and useful parties become apparent, we'll open this up to others.