1. Timelines - 
a) Locked in with updates through mid-July
b) Content vetting / moderation
From ESI — 
  • don’t have a particular date in mind
  • filling the staffing role
  • finishing description
  • conversations with MITii and others over the summer
Puts us in a position to do a soft launch before everyone shows up again (fall semester) good way to test it out — or if we want to say it’s September-ish is fine too 
Preference: Fall launch - but not necessary - certainly up by November
Target pre-semester site launch - deal with scope to hit that
focus on getting mobile done first - stay mobile first in the design
Pieces that represent “summer homework”
  • Identifying existing content on the site that’ll get moved over
  • Design updates for look and feel - tiling mostly - get guys synched 
  • New URL - what are we calling it; 
Something for us to think about:
*First visit - tell us who you are? Audiences could be wildly different  - 
  • progressive profiling
  • signing up - are you a learner? etc. 
Exclusive part of the MIT portal - this idea is kind of underdeveloped  - any thought about what could be behind that wall - value not of excluding but including - access to comment on stuff
*Projects are an important part of the ambition for this — 
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Mothers Out Front - work with MOF around some of that: front-burner for ClimateX
ESI conversation with SMEs - OK with both
  1. Cx won’t be autonomous thing, will be managed by ESI, part of the community, etc.
  2. MOF beginning of many partnerships - partnerships would have to be approved - not a free for all - *get in touch with them sooner rather than later* — don’t want them to think that we’re not interested — how we’d interact with them — 
  • So I think a good idea is to get all of us together in a room 
  • Forming a space where they can feel safe without being exposed to everyone who wants to find out about climate science
  • Projects will have to come for resources — has to be a really good project and has to be funded as well
Podcasts — reviewing before they’re posted: asking for reviews at some point while they can still influence the outcome
*Request from Hive — final cut, we also listen to them
*Add John, Tom, Amanda, and Laur to ClimateX_team — after John has sent email
doing cross-promotions for podcasts — Undark magazine? Science journalism — what can we do quickly to put out podcast contents
If we come across people who are good - one-off episodes — park them in the booth and that creates an episode — *podcasts, lecture series, 
Featured Members — members of the community, or climate groups? — easily editable 
Tagline under ClimateX — 
Hive - go through branding and design exercise — over the summer
Flag other universities who are doing like a “climate portal” - aren’t many doing a “Climate” portal - groups on climate portal are a good start of groups we want to see on the site
Feedback on designs — 
  • More ways to sort content
  • Orient content based on who you are/what kind of role you have
  • Above the fold - say something about what we’re doing on campus
  • MIT organization tabs
  • Topical network mapping? Matchmaking based on interests
Feedback on publishing rights — posting content
  • Practical issue of Path B: what if someone’s on vacation or something; if a shitty post goes live - how to deal with that - setting up a system where there’s multiple people who get a notification and there’s some kind of order 
  • Being transparent about the criteria for why someone is approved — because if someone isn’t approved, someone asks: Why am I not approved? 
  • You* can become a verified author by being invited
  • If a post goes live and then it’s deleted - how transparent to be about why a post was deleted
  • Office of Communication - trying to be open and transparent — would be useful to do a check-in with Nate Nickerson over the summer
  • Need to be transparent about what’s good behavior on the site — not specify rules, write it in a way where the spirit is clear, but not strict rules — blanket statements - “anything that degrades quality of site” or something like that
  • Another option: controlled openness - everyone can create some sort of content - everyone can ask a question?
  • Laur’s comment: verified author and community members 
Posting comments — 
  • Think it’s great - how many comments?
  • Trying to calibrate the effort on MIT Picks — some of them might be easy, others might require conversations — 
  • What would appear if there were no MIT picks? Either “No picks” ; “Picks coming”; etc.
  • Worried about the management of this — 
  • Get people to comment on post; show the kind of level that gets MIT picks — 
  • responding to MIT-verified comments — goes to All, can find replies in all; 
“Summer homework” —
  • Set up podcast strategy meeting for podcasts from now until September
  • Set up meeting with MOF
  • Set up tasks for Summer — list of homework; lay out a summer plan - start assigning homework
  • Propose that in 2 weeks we get together 
To do
  • Schedule a meeting with the podcast producer Dave L. - might start solidifying stuff 
  • Add John, Tom, Amanda, and Laur to ClimateX_team — after John has sent email
  • Tom is going to reach out to SMEs to tell them to schedule meeting with MOF and everyone else — probably will have to help with this
  • Propose that in 2 weeks we get together  — week of June 4th — Laur will be in Boston until the 6th 
  • Explore same sort of cross-coordination with Solve
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