Minutes for the Marspedia Governing Council Meeting - November 17, 2017

Attendees

Susan, James B., James G., Bruce, Nicole, Carie, Mike S., Mike D.

Not Attending: Lucinda, Rose

Agenda

Nominations & Election of Secretary for the Council.
Reports from the Editorial & Technical Subcommittees (James)
Marspedia Logo (Susan)
Publicity phases (Bruce)
Discuss editing review schedule for new articles being posted (Nicole)
Subcommittee meetings should have a bit more notice and more options for times (Nicole)

Secretary

After some discussion, we decided to postpone the election of a Secretary until a future meeting. We will make an effort to recruit a Secretary.

Reports from Editorial & Technical Subcommittees

James Burk provided a report on the activities of both subcommittees.

The Editorial team has been having weekly teleconferences where we've been working on a Topic List and list of Needed Articles. We will continue to use the list of topics (which we consider a good list for now) to build out the needed articles (which needs some work).

We completed the new home page today. It has a "how you can help module" which is a call to action for volunteers. We also link to the new Teachers Start Here page, which needs some more work.

The technical team is working on a List of action items including a review of all tag templates, categories, and a new procedure for importing articles from Wikipedia.