Tentative plan for rolling out django in the newsroom

During the production meeting today with Jeanne, we came up with the following procedures to begin rolling django out into the newsroom next week. We're implementing this slowly to make sure everyone is up to speed, and so that we don't completely overwhelm our night news editors next week when they'll have a lot of extra coverage from the centennial.

Starting Monday morning, we'd like reporters to begin filing to django instead of Falcon. Most of them have been trained, and most should have online accounts. I can help sign up any stragglers.

City editors and ACEs will edit stories in django. They'll then put the first-edit version in Falcon and send it to the Rim. The django file should also be sent to the Rim in django.

The copy desk will then go to work on the stories as usual. The news editors and TA's will then post the fully edited versions to the Web.

If all goes well next week, we'll start switching the desk over to django first. This will allow Mike and TJ to start reimaging computers and upgrading memory, and our newsroom will be much happier once that is all done.

If you have any concerns, share them on the listserv or on the django development blog at djangofordjournalists.blogspot.com.

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