[IMC-US] Re: software

[Garth Liebhaber]

i started a laundary list of things for the site, i'll be posting it in a few days.  chicago just went dada and we are (somehow) 
having a spanish and polish translater option put in, where it runs articles through google translator of babble.  a crude 
translator, but still a bridge.

also, one of our tech people mentioned that there have been quite a few new tech volunteers coming forth on the global 
tech list.  he was also quick to point out that getting a site up isn't necesarrily the hard part, it's being a committed tech to do 
maintenance....

oh, do we have someone capable of graphic design implementation?
also, has there been conclusive decision making on whether we are purely syndicated without an open newswire?

cheerios,
garth


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.
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > IMC-US mailing list
> > IMC-US at lists.cu.groogroo.com
> > http://lists.cu.groogroo.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/imc-us
> >
> >
> >
> > ---- 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
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > IMC-US mailing list
> > IMC-US at lists.cu.groogroo.com
> > http://lists.cu.groogroo.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/imc-us
> >
>
> _______________________________________________
> IMC-US mailing list
> IMC-US at lists.cu.groogroo.com
> http://lists.cu.groogroo.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/imc-us
>

_______________________________________________
IMC-US mailing list
IMC-US at lists.cu.groogroo.com
http://lists.cu.groogroo.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/imc-us



---- 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