[IMC-US] a proposal

[max]

proposed by members of michiganIMC.



I. "featurewire" policy:
fully automated, syndicated wire of all features from US IMCs

II. center column policy:
-the center column is the place to feature:
	1) articles promoted from the featurewire
		-these articles will be either:
		a) bumped to the center column with no changes from the feature wire
		b) bumped to the center column with spelling and grammar corrections if
needed
		c) bumped to the center column with added links and content with the
exclusive purpose of adding context for a US-wide 		audience
	2) articles written by an editorial team specifically for US-IMC
		a) these articles will be written collaboratively over an email list, in a
very similar fashion to global

III.  additional criteria for center column:  
	1) center column features should be articles produced by local IMCs with
content relevant to the US-IMC readers
	2) center column features should be original features compiled by the
US-IMC editorial team 
	3) there will be an emphasis on featuring articles produced by local IMCs
rather than by the US editorial group



IV. process: 
	1) there will be a US-IMC editorial group that will communicate over an
email list.
	2) this group will work out a more detailed policy regarding the promotion
of features to the center column from the featurewire as 	    needed.
	3) if articles from the featurewire fall within the criteria for the center
column, they can be promoted immediately by any individual with 	   
editorial access.
	4) original articles produced by the US editorial group will follow a
similar process to global (proposal --> 6hrs without blocking --> publish -
this can be articulated in greater detail if people want)
	5) the email list and the internal message boards in Mir will be used for
inter-group communication
	6) the editorial group is open to anyone who is already working on a local
IMC in the US


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Quoting Joshua Breitbart <breitbart at indymedia.org>:

> "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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