[IMC-US] Re: software

[Sascha Meinrath]

hi all,

don't forget there's a wiki site for IMC-US that has the collected
ideas/concerns that were raised during the organizing process:

http://brainstorm.ucimc.org/ucimcWiki/imc-us

if there's more information out there, it would be great for people to
copy it into the wiki site.

--sascha

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Ryan Kaldari wrote:

> Don't forget better foreign language support too. Right now dadaIMC is
> very limited in supporting multiple languages.
>
> Ryan Smith, Tennessee IMC
>
> On Jan 20, 2004, at 12:58 AM, Garth Liebhaber wrote:
>
> > I was confused on that point too.  how involved is the syndication
> > aspect?  is it a matter of administrating which sites will be
> > giving syndicated feeds?  Also, if we consensed to have only
> > syndicated feeds and not an open wire, is there something
> > special in implementing that?
> >
> > as to design, we need design people, and of course tech peops to
> > implement the design.  Perhaps our hurdles aren't as
> > large as we thought?
> >
> > Our process for designing Chicago has been for all to give their input
> > to the design person and then she made some
> > mock-ups for further critique.  It's worked really well, making most
> > people happy.  Could I propose this as a next step to get
> > us forward?
> >
> > Could someone repost the address for our dummy site?  Here is the
> > address for Max's banner mockup: http://
> > mail.care2.com/caremail/noframes/mailer/t_baseform.asp?
> > whattodo=compose&Composer=Simple
> >
> > what say all?
> > garth
> > chicago
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ---- Begin Original Message ----
> >
> > From: max <max at michiganimc.org>
> > Sent: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 22:59:15 -0800
> > To: imc-us at lists.cu.groogroo.com
> > Subject: [IMC-US] Re: software
> >
> >
> > I didn't think that anyone was talking about developing new software in
> > the short term.  us.indymedia.org is functional, running dadaIMC
> > already.
> > The tech stuff that needs to get involves syndication and design, not
> > software development.  
> >
> > max
> >
> > Ryan Smith sez:  
> >> I do, however, have one big caveat, which I believe is much more  
> >> important than the size of the acknowledgment on the website. I would
> >>  
> >> like a guarantee that the software developed for the US IMC site is  
> >> released under a public license such as the GPL. That way the
> >> software  
> >> can be used and developed in a completely open manner consistent with
> >>  
> >> Indymedia goals and policies.  
> >   
> >  Ryan's caveat is important, and again, I still haven't seen a
> > response  
> >  from Acorn about this. I'm afraid I fail to see the benefit to us of  
> >  agreeing to this link for the rest of time if the software isn't
> > available  
> >  to us to hack on, use, modify, develop, redistribute, etc.
> >
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> >
> >
> > ---- End Original Message ----
> >
> >
> >
> > It's 2004 - time to gear up for November's Presidential election.
> > Which candidate do you support? http://www.care2.com/go/z/election04
> >
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