It was snowing when we woke up this morning – only the second time in my life I’ve ever seen falling snow, and the first was in Berlin, the night before we left to go back to the US. Light snow, soft and white.

Really good session last night on UpstageProject. Amina and I reviewed the various different kinds of things we want to go on the site, and decided that most of them can fit into the category of either blog posts or articles. I had divided articles up into a bunch of other things, but it’s a little unnecessary. So we’re working with a much simpler model now.

She is interested in streamlining our workflow, particularly the editorial review process. We want this website to be like a real magazine, where your work gets commented on by an editor and goes through multiple drafts – but it’s a lot of work for our small volunteer staff, and we want to make sure we’re not overwhelming anyone.

Amina has a lot of experience, from Telluride and other places, in how to create a workflow model that will last. I’m really relieved to have her helping with this.

To this end, we’re not going to NYC tomorrow, but are going to stay in Ithaca and continue working over the weekend. This also gives me more time to get the Convergence script the way I want it.