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The main forum would be called 'CurvedSpace Newsletter.' The sub-forums inside the CSN forum would be the sections of the newsletter. For now, I'm thinking we can have CurvedSpace Announcements, Arbiter's Order News, Reviews, and Editorials. Another section is Columns, but I think it would be better if we start small. The bottom sub-forum would be 'Staff Discussion (or w/e else you want to call it, can be anything
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) where the newsletter staff develop the articles, talk about the newsletter, etc.. All of the sub-forums that are sections need to have permission masks to keep non-staff from posting new topics there, but they should be able to reply to the articles posted there.
The sub-forums inside the CSN forum would be the sections of the newsletter. For now, I'm thinking we can have CurvedSpace Announcements, Reviews, and Editorials. Other sections we could build to are SeeD News and Columns, but I agree with Cspace that it will probably be better starting small. The last sub-forum would be 'Staff Discussion (or w/e else you want to call it, it can be anything
![bluetongue.gif](http://www.cspacezone.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/bluetongue.gif)
) where the newsletter staff develops the articles, talks about the newsletter, etc.. All of the sub-forums that are sections need to have permission masks to keep non-staff from posting new topics there, but they should be able to reply to the articles posted there.
So basically, the forum configuration would look like this:
>>CurvedSpace Newsletter
- CurvedSpace Announcements
- Reviews
- Editorials
- Staff Discussion/whatever you want
- Approved Articles
- Rejected Articles
As for CurvedSpace Announcements, I was wondering if it could be set up (I believe it's possible) so that whenever a topic (article) is posted in that forum, it is displayed on the homepage as a title and excerpt of the beginning, providing a link to the article. That way you can posted all of your updates and announcements as newsletter articles, but they'll still catch eyes on the front page.
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If everyone is fine with that setup, we'll just need people to officially sign up as writers. I'm not sure how strict we should be about the staff, though. I had a lot of problems with staff with the other newsletter I had going, because people frequently disappeared from the newsletter scene. It's one thing to say you want to write articles, and another to actually write them consistently.