[IMC-US] a proposal

[deva]

> 	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.


What would be the criteria for the center column?

thanks for taking the time to write a proposal

deva


On Jul 26, 2004, at 4:14 PM, max wrote:

> 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.
>
> 	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
>
>
> ---
>
>
> 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
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
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>>>> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 03817826
>>>> Key fingerprint = 6C11 8D70 2ADE EFA9 498D  72CB 77EA 391A 0381
>> 7826
>>>>
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