PTTU Roles and Responsibilities

Among the volunteers who keep the PTTU alive there are different roles and responsibilities.

Editors

Mission: To make sure PTTU is kept up-to-date with the latest content clearly 24/7.
Main editorial guideline - feature excellent content that is more "recent" or "better" than what is featured already.

1. Feature front page features in the banner (time-critical)
   • Should be a very appealing image and good content
   • Should be a recent news release
2. Feature news, blogs, podcasts (time-critical)
   • Should be have very appealing content and a good graphics
   • Should be a recent news release
   • For news there usually has to be an image
3. Mark non-astronomy posts as SPAM (time-critical)
   • Read news, podcast, blog posts
   • Mark non-astronomy as SPAM (vaccinations, superstition, non-astro politics etc.
4. Approve new media and PIOs
   • Check credentials according to: https://www.portaltotheuniverse.org/news/journalists/accreditation/ and https://www.portaltotheuniverse.org/news/pios/accreditation/
   • Approve/disapprove
5.    Approve new feeds
   • Check feed:
     • Has to be about astronomy
     • Has to be in English
     • Has to be a "valuable" resource
   • Approve/disapprove
6. Persuade non-RSS PIOs to use RSS:
   Dear XXXXXX
   As PIO for the YYYYYYY telescope we assume your are the right person to address re. press releases. We are impressed with your recent press releases and would in the future love to feature future releases prominently on the new Portal to the Universe: https://www.portaltotheuniverse.org
   However since this Portal works 24/7 we require that your press releases have an RSS feed (something that would in any case increase you audience significantly). Only two steps are necessary for this:

• 1. Set up an RSS feed, see: http://www.portaltotheuniverse.org/news/pios/rss_howto/
• 2. Register your new feed at: https://www.portaltotheuniverse.org/news/register/
  
  Read more about RSS feeds in general at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format)
  Best,
  NNNNNNN
  Member of the Portal editors

Moderator

• Remove inappropiate comments under each of the stories
• Remove foreign language comments

Feed-finder

• Find new relevant astronomy feeds for press releases, blogs and podcasts
• Submit feeds for approval by editor

Gadget-coders

• Code gadgets that uses live data, images etc.
• Submit to lnielsen@eso.org for approval