CHECKLIST FOR ISSUE #1

Cover

BANNER ☑

The Federation Times ISSUE #1 DATE: 9/Something ☑

Cover Story Headline: “TSF COURT HAVING A SAY” or something along those lines ☑

Featuring Interviews with makethebrainhappy, CrazyGoldfish3, and Austinato! ☑

*Feature Shop: ✔ Ray of light ✔* ☑

Enjoy reading! ☑

Ads:
Banner+Link for each Ad-
The Emporium: https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/198697/?page=1 ☑ Banner: http://i68.tinypic.com/ibyo13.png ☑
Laetus Graphics Studio: https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/210590/ ☑ Banner: http://i.cubeupload.com/VQxRpq.png ☑
Consili Designs: https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/173751/ ☑ Banner: http://i.cubeupload.com/fGdsmx.png ☑
2538 Shop: https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/197584/ ☑ Banner: http://i.cubeupload.com/G3Wgd7.jpg ☑
Sigton's Shop: https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/158252/ ☑ Banner: http://i.cubeupload.com/zMJz3D.png ☑
Co49: https://scratch.mit.edu/users/Co49/ ☑
Employee of the Week will be determined after the issue has been completed.
SDS Jingle: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/108642968/ ☑

Interviews:
Each interview + Article based around it-
makethebrainhappy: https://titanpad.com/2UxqOnHV9t ☑ Article: https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/post/2180552/ ☑
CrazyGoldfish3: https://titanpad.com/2UxqOnHV9t (Under MTBH's) ☑ Article: monkeytrooper currently writing
Austinato: https://titanpad.com/2UxqOnHV9t (Under CG3's) ☑ Article: https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/post/2185755/ ☑

Articles:
2 columns + Cover story-
Cover Story: The Head will take this responsibility; Article: The TSF Court is making its first ever ruling!
Column 1: The Feature Shop Breakdown, with rainbow_waves; Banner: http://i.cubeupload.com/p7SDhw.png ☑
Column 2: TSF Lately, with MegaByteCorporations ☑; Banner: http://i.cubeupload.com/38JnfY.png ☑

TSF Lately
With MegaByteCorporations

Recently the Shop Federation has been going through some major changes. This began sometime near the end of CrazyGolfish3's - who we'll call Crazy from now on - summer vacation. Crazy's summer inactiveness caused TSF to go into a very severe activity slump. About 3 posts were made very week, though occasionally there would be activity spikes that lasted a day or two. This caused TSF Officials to begin planning a complete reform of TSF, the only hampering circumstance was Crazy's absence from the happenings; and so TSF Officials opted to elect a Temporary Manager until Crazy returned from his hiatus. As election preparations were being made, Crazy returned, and with the return of Crazy, the reform truly began to happen. All of the inactive TSF Officials were cut, opening up spots for Hierarchy hopefuls.

And that was TSF Lately with MegaByteCorporations

Unique Article to issue-
Topic: Guilds, by monkeytrooper ☑

Recently the TSF has set up a new Guilds program. It is designed so that shops that sell the same things can discuss individually regarding different topics. There are many benefits of being in a Guild. It gives partnerships, deals, ideas, and more to the joined shops. Currently Guilds are for TSF members only. To join a Guild you must first become a TSF member, then apply for your Guild. Currently, we have two Guilds, Personal Art (logos, banners, etc.) and Project Art (sprites, backgrounds.) (NOTE TO PAPER STAFF, Place links to the guilds where they're mentioned) More Guilds will be coming soon, such as Writing, Music, and Scripting. We urge all shops to join the TSF and a Guild, so please consider it.

Review wrote:
One Detailed Review of a Shop- Ocean Breeze Shop of Everything: https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/159006/

Review: Interface: 20/20 Very easy to use, and understand.
Order-Related Activity: 10/20 Almost immediately my order was swamped in a storm of music-related offtropicness, I had to bump it twice before someone took my order.
Staff: 14/20 They were quite kind, but again, too offtropic.
Order Completion Swiftness: 20/20 They completed it on the same day.
Order Final Product: 20/20 Exactly what the order said.
Overall: 84/100 - About 4 stars out of 5 - About 8/10 ☑

Polls:
2 Standard Polls-
Who should be our Scratcher of the next issue? A: rollercoasterfan- https://scratch.mit.edu/users/rollercoasterfan/, B: Sigton- https://scratch.mit.edu/users/Sigton/ , C: https://scratch.mit.edu/users/ZLGames/ ☑
Which project should we feature next issue? A: Bubble Bear- https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/118843730/ , B: Stages of Government in Ancient Greece- https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/70830574/ , C: Summer- https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/108683988/ ☑

1 Unique to the Issue Poll-
Do you think CrazyGoldfish3's Shop deserves to be Endorsed? A: Yes, B: No ☑

- Review + Article (Mega)
- Cover Story (Crazy)
- The Feature Shop Breakdown (Rainbow)
- Interview Adaptation (Monkey)
- Additional Art Pieces (Sigton + RCF)
- Formatting to Newspaper Style (Everyone)
-Unique article (Monkey)

Everyone has got something to do!

Executive Board - These guys have authority over all Members under the Executive board, and ech member(except for the Reviewer) can assign jobs to his/her respective categories
Editor-in-Chief - Leads the team of BBcoders
Artiste (XD) - Leads the team of Artists
Reviewer - Decides which articles get into the newspaper and when they do.
Chief Journalist - Lead the team of Journalists
Head Interviewer - Leads the team of Interviewers
Junior Officials - These guys have authority over all Members under the rank of Junior Official
Field Managers - These guys scour the Requests forum to find small, unnoticed somewhat active shops for the Featured Shops section. They also lead small teams of 5-8 people and are assigned (By the EiC) a set of pages (e.g. 40-50) to scour per day.
HQ Managers - Can hire/fire anyone equal to their Rank or below
Staff Body - These guys do most of the grunt work for the paper.
BBcoders - Arranges the format of the issue
Artists - Create images and find screenshots for the issues
Journalists - Write articles about the most recent and generally interesting news in shops on the first 20 pages of the Requests forum. And write articles about shops in the Featured Shops section according to the information given to them by the Field Managers
Inteviewers - They interview Owners and members of successful shops as well as interview owners of shops in the Featured Shops section.

MegaByteCorporations wrote:

Here' what the hierarchy should look like:

Executive Board - These guys have authority over all Members under the Executive board, and ech member(except for the Reviewer) can assign jobs to his/her respective categories.
Editor-in-Chief - Leads the team of BBcoders
Artiste (XD) - Leads the team of Artists
Reviewer - Decides which articles get into the newspaper and when they do.
Chief Journalist - Lead the team of Journalists
Head Interviewer - Leads the team of Interviewers
Junior Officials - These guys have authority over all Members under the rank of Ju9nior Official
Field Managers - These guys scour the Requests forum to find small, unnoticed somewhat active shops for the Featured Shops section. They also lead small teams of 5-8 people and are assigned (By the EiC) a set of pages (e.g. 40-50) to scour per day.
HQ Managers - Can hire/fire anyone equal to their Rank or below
Staff Body - These guys do most of the grunt work for the paper.
BBcoders - Arranges the format of the issue
Artists - Create images and find screenshots for the issues
Journalists - Write articles about the most recent and generally interesting news in shops on the first 20 pages of the Requests forum. And write articles about shops in the Featured Shops section according to the information given to them by the Field Managers
Inteviewers - They interview Owners and members of successful shops as well as interview owners of shops in the Featured Shops section.

Sigton wrote:

This is the thread for recruiting; we are not hiring. Hmmm….

Sigton

Sigton wrote:

Isn't that a bit complex for the scale of operation we're aiming at here?

Sigton

monkeytrooper wrote:

Sigton wrote:

This is the thread for recruiting; we are not hiring. Hmmm….

Sigton

I don't quite understand.
Also could someone make a banner for the paper

Co49 wrote:

Anything I can do?

monkeytrooper wrote:

And do you think we could pull it off bi- weekly

Sigton wrote:

We don't need a large team, in fact more people would probably only slow the operation down. We just need a few dedicated people to run it all. Maybe 5 people doing the whole newspaper.

Sigton

Sigton wrote:

We don't need a large team, in fact more people would probably only slow the operation down. We just need a few dedicated people to run it all. Maybe 5 people doing the whole newspaper.

Sigton

Co49 wrote:

Sigton wrote:

We don't need a large team, in fact more people would probably only slow the operation down. We just need a few dedicated people to run it all. Maybe 5 people doing the whole newspaper.

Sigton

I think the key is ensuring that every member knows exactly what their job is and deadline so that they can fulfil there role on a consistent level.

Sigton wrote:

This is the thread for recruiting; we are not hiring. Hmmm….

Sigton

monkeytrooper wrote:

Sigton wrote:

This is the thread for recruiting; we are not hiring. Hmmm….

Sigton

I Said not currently hiring

monkeytrooper wrote:

Me thinks we should have 2 of each thing (article,interview,feature,tsf column) this would mean we would be able to pick and have backups.