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The Public Press www.public-press.org is a concept for the next-generation daily newspaper. We're organizing a group of journalists, technologist and nonprofit managers to organize a new newsroom for the San Francisco Bay Area that would produce a Web site, daily print newspaper and collaborations with nonprofit news-gathering organizations locally and nationally. We've built a simple Drupal 6 site that we will be growing in the coming weeks and months, and we plan to start publishing on the Web using this platform.

You're invited to help define the future of technology and journalism:

-- By adding to a dialogue about the 10-most-disruptive technologies affecting journalism today (or in the future) How? Go to this link: http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-sv-disruption

Then reply to this post with your additions/deletions/comments on the 10-most list.

-- By attending some or all of a three day conceptual mashup and "do team" facilitation at Yahoo! Sunnyvale on April 30-May 3.

Your invited to:
Technology and the New Ecology of News

For those who don't know, Nexpo is a gigantic trade show put on by the Newspaper Association of America every year. Over at my day job, I'm a member of the NAA, and this interview was with the NAA monthly trade magazine.

To all News folk at DrupalCon this week - just noticed the DrupalCon BoF event posting below and thought I'd post here to raise visibility. I didn't get a chance to meet others at Lucky's yesterday (raucous fun, but not too conducive to conversation!). Come on by if you're interested in Knight or just want to chat over Drupal.

http://groups.drupal.org/node/9383

• Chip Kaye

DrupalCON Boston promises to be the biggest and (of course) the best DrupalCON ever. How do I know? Well, I'm helping organize part of the "Site Building" track of the conference. I'm also organizing and hosting the first ever News Industry meetup. Do you plan to attend?

There will also be a first-ever Job Fair at this DrupalCON. Sponsoring organizations can come recruit talent at the Job Fair.

As one of the admins of Newspapers on Drupal -- and one of the early adopters of Drupal in the newspaper industry -- I'll be in Boston on September 28 & 29 to speak to the New York Press Association. (Moshe is speaking as well.)

If anyone is interested in getting together for drinks, dinner, or general Drupal chat (I just came back from DrupalCON Barcelona), just post a comment or contact me.

I'm free Friday and Saturday night, and Sunday for breakfast.

FYI: The 'Drupal and the future of news' panel discussion will be on Thursday, 20-SEP.

We still have room for panelists; so if you're interested, let me know.

http://barcelona2007.drupalcon.org/node/423

Unfortunately, due to constantly changing direction/goals/vision/priorities within the RSJ grad program, I've decided to resign from my position as Integrated Media Coordinator there. Last time I talked to Tao Starbow, he had found space at Bay Area Drupal Camp that is scheduled the same weekend. Boris Mann had an offer for space at Blog World Expo in Las Vegas the following weekend. Sorry this didn't work out. - Kevin Reynen

All: Dries just asked for more session proposals for Barcelona, so I submitted two:

1) "Drupal and the future of news": http://barcelona2007.drupalcon.org/node/423.
I'm looking for panelists for this one. Read the description and let me know.

2) "Newspapers on Drupal BOF": http://barcelona2007.drupalcon.org/node/424
Just to reserve an hour to discuss a path forward on a "news" install profile and other shared goals.

Let me know if you're interested in participating in either one.