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LAUNCH - Getting the press release out - Dividing up this effort - PRIORITY

• See Debatepedia:Contact list - Please see roles and responsibilities there.

Long-term marketing, outreach, and community building Debatepedia:Marketing

Competitive debate, community marketing, outreach and editor community building

• Lincoln Douglas debate, community building director - Noel
• Karl popper debate, community building director - Arminda
• Policy debate, community building director - Trevor.
• Parliamentary debate, community building director - Robert Trapp.
• Public debate, community building director - Noel.
• Public forum debate, community building director -
• Australasia debate, community building director -
• Classical debate, community building director - Trevor.
• Extemporaneous debate, community building director - Brooks.
• Simulated legislature (Model Congress...) - Robert.

Political world, marketing, outreach, and community building

• 2008 US political elections community building and outreach director. - Brooks
• 2009 EU elections community building and outreach director. - Dalbir.
• Politicians and campaign coordinator - Brooks
• Political blogs - Anthony Bonna.
• US presidential debates - Brooks.
• Activists/Interest groups community, outreach and community building director - Brooks Lindsay

Wikipedia-Debatepedia coordination and outreach - Brooks Lindsay

• Wikipedia leadership coordination - Janet Haven
• Wikiepedia editor coordination - Brooks Lindsay
  • Making specific Wikipedia editors on specific topics aware of parrallel article on Debatepedia.

Congresspedia-Debatepedia coordination - Brooks Lindsay

Online viral marketing directors and strategists - Will, Marjan

• [Facebook, Digg, Slashdot, and all viral marketing tools and strategies]
• Facebook group, yahoo group, meetups,...
• Creative use of online tools.

Media outreach - Noel

Technology and politics organization outreach - Brooks

IDEA network and member coordination - Noel.

Debatabase-Debatepedia cross-over director. - Alastair

Second Life-Debatepedia cross-over director. - Marjan

Software development coordinators - William and Marjan

• Debatepedia-QuadOne coordination director - William
  • Managing all software development projects with QuadOne.
• Debatepedia-IDEA/OSI software coordination director - Marjan.
  • Rallying and coordinating all IDEA software resources.
• Facebook Software Integration - William
  • Reaching out to people through integration with the Facebook platform.

Conference and panel coordinator - Noel

• Responsible for developing a coherent list of up-and-coming conferences that Debatepedia/IDEA representatives should attend and attempt to join a panel on.

• Note: William has a 10 minute presentation on Debatepedia that he can use at Policy/Tech conferences.

Editing: Subject category editors and stewards

Subject category stewards have the responsibility of bringing the debates of their category to Feature Quality status through a combination of:

1. Their own voracious editing and content building.
2. Community building and management within your category.

Please, put your name next to some of the categories below, denoting that you volunteer to become a steward of that category. Then, put that category in your own personal "roles and responsibilities" subsection below.

Main Categories

• 2008 US presidential elections - Brooks.
• Category:2009 EU elections - Dalbir.

• Philosophy: category, portal
• Political systems: category, portal
• Legislation and policy: category, portal
  
• Economics: category, portal
• Moral: category, portal
• Religion: category, portal
• Individual rights: category, portal
• Legal: category, portal
• Crime: category, portal
• Education: category, portal
• Culture: category, portal
• Sport: category, portal -
• Health: category, portal -
• Science and technology: category, portal
• Environment and animal welfare: category, portal
• Security and conflict: category, portal - Clayton Keir.
• Business: category, portal
• Historical: category, portal

Regional category and portal pages

• Africa: category, portal - Brooks
• Balkans: category, portal -
• Canada: category, portal - Dalbir
• Central America and Caribbean: category, portal
  
• Central Asia, Caspian, Caucasus: category, portal (Mongolia, Kazakstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Caspian Sea, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan)
• East Asia: category, portal (China, Japan, Taiwan, North and South Korea)
  • China: category, portal
  • Japan: category, portal
• Europe (EU): category, portal - Dalbir
  • United Kingdom: - (Who from IDEA is in London)
• Middle East: category, portal - Clayton Keir.
• Russia: category, portal - Noel.
• South America: category, portal -
• South Asia: category, portal (India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan, Burma) - Prateek.
• Southeast Asia: category, portal (Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines)
• United States: category, portal - Brooks

• International: category, portal
• United Nations: category, portal - Brooks

Issue area categories and portals

• Abortion: category, portal - Dalbir
• Alcohol: category, portal
• Biotechnology and ethics: category, portal
• Catholic Church: category, portal
  
• Corruption: category, portal
• Democracy: category, portal
• Demographic: category, portal
• Developing world: category, portal
• Disease: category, portal
• Drugs (illicit): category, portal
• Elections: category, portal
• Energy: category, portal - Noel.
• Entertainment: category, portal
• Failed and rogue states: category, portal
• Family: category, portal
• Farming and agriculture: category, portal
• Gender: category, portal
• Genocide and war crimes: category, portal
• Global Climate Change: category, portal. - Robert Trapp.
• HIV/AIDS: category, portal.
• Homosexuality: category, portal
• Human rights: category, portal - Trevor Sather.
• Immigration: category, portal
• Individual rights: category. portal
  
• International aid: category, portal
• International organizations and NGOs: category, portal
• Internet and information: category, portal
• Iraq war: category, portal.
• Iranian nuclear crisis: category, portal.
• Islam and the West: category, portal
• Life and death: category, portal (abortion, capital punishment, euthanasia...)
• Marijuana: category, portal.
• Medicine: category, portal
• Millennium Development Goals: category, portal
• National sovereignty: category, portal
• Natural resources: category, portal
• NATO: category, portal
• North Korean nuclear crisis: category, portal.
• Obesity: category, portal
• Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: category, portal
• Poverty: category, portal
• Prison and jail: category, portal
• Public safety: category, portal
• Race: category. portal
• Sex and reproduction: category, portal
• Smoking: category, portal
• State involvement: category, portal
• Taxes: category, portal
• Globalization: category, portal
• Trade: category
• Under-age: category, portal
  • Youth
• Urban development: category, portal
• Terrorism: category, portal
• Wealth and class: category, portal
• Weapons proliferation: category, portal
• Welfare: category, portal

Individual roles and responsibilities

Brooks Lindsay

• Editing and content-building responsibilities:
  • Chief editor of Debatepedia.
  • 2008 US political elections, project manager and chief editor.
• Marketing and outreach responsibilities (see Debatepedia:Contact list):
  • Extemporaneous debate, outreach and community building.
  • Debate and political websites, outreach and community building.
  • Activists/interest groups community, outreach and community building director.
  • Wikipedia editors.
  • Making specific Wikipedia editors on specific topics aware of parallel article on Debatepedia.
  • Technology and politics organizations outreach.

Noel

• Marketing and outreach responsibilities:
  • Lincoln Douglas debate, community building director - Noel
  • Public debate, community building director - Noel.
  • Mainstream media outreach.
  • IDEA network and member coordination.
  • Conferences and panels: Responsible for developing a coherent list of up-and-coming conferences that Debatepedia/IDEA representatives should attentd and attempt to join a panel on.

Arminda

• Marketing and outreach:
  • Karl popper debate style marketing and outreach.
• Project management:
  • Second Life-Debatepedia cross-over director.

Dalbir

• Category:2009 EU elections, project manager and editor - Dalbir.
  • Go through 500 debates in existence already, and categorized the ones that relate to the elections.
  • Initiate a full review of the most important debates in this up-coming election, initiate them, categorize them in the EU elections category, build their contents, and lead in the editor community building and marketing effort for this category and project.

Marjan

• Debatepedia-IDEA/OSI software coordination - Marjan.
• Online viral marketing.
  • [Facebook, Digg, Slashdot, and all viral marketing tools and strategies]
  • Facebook group, yahoo group, meetups,...
  • Creative use of online viral marketing tools.

Will

• Online viral marketing strategies and implementation.
• Software development:
  • Debatepedia - QuadOne software coordination.
  • New software project drafting and implementation.
  • Facebook Software Integration
• Conference speaker - I already have a presentation geared for Policy/Tech conferences.

Trevor Sather

• Editor/Steward responsibilities:
• Policy Debate community marketing and outreach director, responsible for
  • Continued outreach and community building in this community.
• Classical debate, community building director - Trevor.

Robert Trapp

• Parliamentary debate, community building director - Robert Trapp.
• Simulated legislature (Model Congress...) - Robert.
• Moral: category, portal - Robert Trapp

Clayton Keir

• Editor, Security and conflict category. - Responsible for
  • Making debates in this category Debate:Feature article Feature Quality.
  • Informing the "actors" and organizations that have stake in these debates about the existence of individual debates of interest.

Alastair Endersby

• Debatabase editor
• Debatepedia outreach to Debatabase editors.

Janet Haven

• Wikipedia leadership coordination.