Five Years Running a News Site on JAMStack
Carlana Johnson
Director of Technology
Spotlight PA
Spotlight PA
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Session Plan
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Session Plan
- Architectural History of Spotlight PA
- Breakout A.
- Lessons from Practices and Patterns
- Breakout B.
- Case Study
- Breakout C.
- Q&A
Doc: https://bit.ly/jamtalk24
What is Spotlight PA?
Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit newsroom dedicated to high-quality investigative and public-service journalism about the Pennsylvania state government and urgent statewide issues.
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Port Deposit Bridge
Everyone hates their CMS.
Everyone hates their CMS. *
* But if you work together, they can hate it less.
Breakout A
- Make groups; introduce yourselves
- What are the projects you worked on the longest?
- What went well?
- What decisions did you live to regret?
- Pick a group spokesperson
Lessons learned from practices and patterns
Open source everything
Open source everything *
* Almost
Do it manually until it hurts
Think incrementally
Do your tech chores
A lot of tech solves problems small teams don’t have
Breakout B
- What development practices have you experienced that you liked?
- What development practices do you never ever want to do again?
- What lessons from those experiences do you want to share with the group?
Case study
sources.spotlightpa.org
sources.ctmirror.org
amplifycolorado.colabnews.co
Breakout C
- What projects do you wish you could do?
- How can you build incrementally toward your goal?
Q & A
Spotlight PA
We are hiring!
Thank you for attending!
Five Years Running a News Site on JAMStack Carlana Johnson Director of Technology Spotlight PA
