CoPress

Ok, I can’t get much hokier than that. Now is the time to get involved with CoPress! If you’d like to, we’ve started outlining a few golden paths to do so:

Contribute to the Blog

Redesign your website recently? Have an idea for the next killer student news application? Join the growing list of contributors to the CoPress Blog by pitching your idea to blog@copress.org. 

Connect in the Forum

When we relaunched the website a few weeks back, we installed a super powerful WordPress plugin called Simple:Press Forum. Our goal is to provide ways for our community, you guys, to connect on a regular basis about all things tech, student media, and journalism. At the moment, you can leave questions about WordPress, Django, and Drupal, and also participate in the weekly discussion group. This week Greg asks, “what ways are you generating revenue right now, how would you would evaluate your success and what would you like to do in the future?” We’d certainly enjoy having you weigh in.

Add and Learn from the Wiki

Help educate your peers by adding your school, plugins, and other resources to the wiki. On the Network side of things,we’re compiling information on student news organizations around the country by looking for CMSes in use, blog posts you’ve written about the site, and contact information for the online editor and any web developers. Check out The Whitman Pioneer and The Daily Orange for example of “what’s good.” In the near future, you’ll be able to search against this data for ideas and the right person to go to for troubleshooting, among other things. 

In the next week or so, we’d also enjoy help adding screenshots to the list of WordPress themes and adding to our meager Django documentation.