[IMC-US] Re: software

[Ben Chodoroff]

if you, or anybody else, is interested in getting tech stuff rolling,
*please* sign on to the imc-us-tech at lists.cu.groogroo.com list! it's
been much too quiet there lately, even with 11 subscribers :/

it's been frusturating in the past few weeks, but i really think the us
site will work out very well... we just have to start working...

-ben

* Garth Liebhaber (garthliebhaber at care2.com) wrote:
> 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.
> > >
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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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