The past couple of weeks have been very exciting for CoPress. The conference calls, the audio from which is on our wiki, have been productive and we have made some notable steps forward.

One of the big steps is our survey for online editors across the country, which we hope to use to gauge where other college newspapers are with their sites, what kind of talent they have and what their ideal content management system would include.

In looking to further spread the word about CoPress, Kevin Koehler (@kev097) and I (@greglinch) spoke with several people about the group at the Online News Association conference in Washington, D.C. from Sept. 11-13. Out of the people we spoke with, we now have two more people in our core CoPress team:

Patrick Beeson (@patrickbeeson) and Major Highfield (@majorh)

Patrick and Major, who both have past experience working in online college media, have already provided important feedback and ideas to help move the group forward. We are very glad to have them on board.

Looking forward, Kevin will be working on podcasts for the group, so be sure to subscribe when those become available — a link will be posted everywhere fine CoPress material is sold.

Also, Daniel Bachhuber (@danielbachhuber) will be looking into Basecamp as a new means for us to manage tasks and other aspects of the project.

If you’re interested in learning more about CoPress and becoming involved, take a look though the links below.

Where to find more about CoPress:

• Google Group
• Wiki
• Conference calls
• Twitter
• Facebook group
• Del.icio.us
• Knight News Challenge Garage

People who have written about CoPress:

• Daniel Bachhuber – Introducing CoPress
• Adam Hemphill – CoPress’ new digs and CoPress logo draft
• Jared Silfies – CoPress: Changing college journalism
• Dan Reimold – “We’re trying to fix the ‘CMS Problem’”
• College Rag – CoPress project launches Web site and CoPress refines its mission