[IMC-US] going live?

[Tribal Scribal]

Seems to me we need to nail down our editorial policy stuff before we go 
promoting the site. That conversation is still going on, no?  Are there 
other policy mattersaswell?

d.o.



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>From: Joshua Breitbart <breitbart at indymedia.org>
>To: imc-us at lists.cu.groogroo.com
>Subject: Re: [IMC-US] going live?
>Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 07:37:14 -0400
>
>"live" is such a relative term anyway. Does it mean when the indymedia.us 
>url is
>pointed to it? Or when we actually start promoting it?
>
>The site won't start getting much traffic until it has something more than 
>an
>untouched syndication feed. We need at least to be able to provide some 
>context
>for the links, expand or reduce the abstracts, and correct typos.
>
>John - I'd like an account. But is there any editorial management at all as 
>its
>currently configured? Seems like the features wire just rolls along.
>
>I think it would be really incongruous to once in a while all of a sudden 
>have
>breaking news pop up on the site.
>
>My main concern is that the site be most useful with the least possible 
>effort.
>That means a constantly updated center column. For that, we should allow 
>for
>multiple ways to access the center column. The easiest way to do that is 
>simply
>to be able to bump up features from the wire and that will probably be the
>primary source of content. But we'd be making our lives more difficult if 
>we
>close off the option of being able to post features directly.
>
>
>Josh
>
>
>
>
>Quoting max <max at michiganimc.org>:
>
>  should we decide how the site is going to work before we start doing it?
>
>  max
>
>  ---
>
>
>  Quoting bht <bht at indymedia.org>:
>
>  > one thing about setting up admin accounts:
>  >
>  > we should preface our admin name with what imc we come from, mine is
>  > pdx_bht this is how global does it and is a good way to remember where
>  > we
>  > have accounts!
>  >
>  > also, I can set up accounts and run people through admin use as well!
>  > bht
>  >
>  >
>  > > so, the syndication stuff seems to be working pretty well.
>  > >
>  > > do we want to point indymedia.us and us.indymedia.org at the current
>  > > server?  i can turn on the breaking news stuff, and start handing out
>  > > admin accounts to those who want one...there's a lot of features
>  > > coming in, it would be good to get people to start watching and
>  > > categorizing features(we need a set of topics first, obviously)
>  > >
>  > > john
>  > >
>  > > --
>  > >
>  > > this is where my public key can be found:
>  > > gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 03817826
>  > > Key fingerprint = 6C11 8D70 2ADE EFA9 498D  72CB 77EA 391A 0381 7826
>  > >
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