Schedule update

Here's the agenda for the Other Future of News forum, Saturday, Dec. 12, 10a-5p at Spill the Wine, 1101 Washington Ave. S. Minneapolis. (You can read more about the event here)

First, a caveat:

We nailed down the topics, but made them a bit broader than the ideas we were all voting on in the Google Wave.

Basically, there are three groupings - the business side (how can we get the coin we need to do the content we're trying to do, and how existing orgs can be successfully reshaped), the tech/tools side (what's out there, or will be out there, to enable better content?) and the content-generation side (not only what audience wants/needs, but how great stuff is being made now and might be made in future).

Really, these are just loose groupings for the 5-minute presentations. (We need volunteers for presentations -- see below.) We'll try to organize appropriately, but remember our new motto - "Unclench." If really cool things fit between categories, we'll figure out a way to get them in.

One last thing: the 2-hr sessions may seem long, but they'll be split roughly in half - an hour of 5-minute presentations, and an hour of discussion among all of us on the topic.

10a-10:15a - Intros, ground rules, etc.

10:15a-12:15p - Session One: Better Business/Organizational Change/Organizationless?

A combo of topic ideas #1 and #3. How to pay for whatever you're doing (or want to do), and how news orgs are evolving, structurally.

12:15p-1p - Lunch (You're on your own, but the Spill the Wine folks would probably love to serve you. Grumpy's is just down the block.)

1-3p - Session Two: Tech/Tools.

Topic idea #4 below, more or less. Focused on the tools and technology that can make for more effective news content, or actually shape content we might be doing. Developers, coders, etc.

3-5p - Session Three - Content

Topic ideas #7 and 8, but more broadly, but also some tips from people making good content right now.

5p-on - Retreat to bar and keep arguing ... er., discussing. 

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So you want to do a presentation? We want you to do a presentation!

This is the place to volunteer -- pick a session ... we might re-arrange based on which ones get more, but don't sweat it too much right now. We're more interested in you (list name) and topic (list that) at the moment. You can talk about something you've done, something you want to do, something you've done within an org, something on your own ... whatevah.

(If you have access to the Google Wave, you can self-nominate there. You can also self-nominate here ... just add a comment below.)

We'll probably have room for 5-10 presentations per session, but we'll winnow later ... and we'd really like to have that problem.

Session One: Business/Organization

Session Two: Tech/Tools

Session Three: Content