ONADC — The Coral Project

Interactive spaces like online comment sections can be vitriolic, uncivil melees, but they’re also likely home to your most loyal readers. How can news orgs bring users’ valuable insights to light without being overwhelmed by rants and spam?

The Coral Project (http://coralproject.net/), a collaboration between Mozilla, The New York Times, and The Washington Post aims to help by creating open-source software and renewed best practices that any publisher could use to create, improve, and maintain interactive spaces.

Greg Barber (https://twitter.com/gjbarb), The Washington Post’s lead on the project, will join us to give us more details on Coral and hear your stories about what you’d do with UGC if you didn’t have to play troll whack-a-mole.

Please join us for our second meetup in June.

— Tiffany, Matt and Jessica

PS: Bloomberg rules prohibit us from collecting money at the door, so please make every effort to pay online beforehand. Thanks.

SCHEDULE

6:30 – 7:00 pm – Mix and mingle (Bloomberg is generously providing beer/wine/soft drinks, pizza and dessert bites.)

7:00 pm – Program begins

WANT TO HELP?

Volunteer to work the door, photograph or blog the event by emailing Jessica Estepa ( jess.estepa@gmail.com ). Volunteers receive complimentary entry even if the event sells out.

Have an idea for future ONADC topics, speakers and events? We are always looking for cool suggestions, as well as places to hold meetups. Let us know if you have thoughts about topics or if you want to host!

NOT AN ONA MEMBER YET?

We hope you will consider joining ONA (https://members.journalists.org/membership) soon. It’s a great organization!