[IMC-US] turtle.indymedia.org

[deva]

Yes, thanks for taking the time to post notes Faith. They are helpful.

Isn't Turtle Island geographically more than US? I believe it would 
equate more to North America. I like the idea of an alternate name, 
though hopefully no native peoples feel it was being co-opted. Should 
that name be reserved for a topic site that specifically covered 
indigenous issues? (there isn't one in the works as far as I know)

I do not know enough about dada software to decide which I would like 
better overall. However, if there are technical issues, and not enough 
people time to address them, and moving over to MIR can fix them, then 
that does seem like an expedient solution. MIR certainly works well and 
is steadily being improved and new features are generally easy to add 
and it is very customizable.

Where is the site to be hosted? bht suggested Portland and Josh 
expressed some concern about that. What other options are there?

What hardware is being used? Is the hardware ready to go?

I like the idea of the site being a doorway to the local imc's. Is a 
newswire useful and desirable? I like the idea of some of the center 
column features being culled from the feature wire that way the site 
reflects the diversity of stories from all the local imc's

On the global site, the feature wire is short, and has no archive. I 
think it would be good to have it longer and archive the feature wire 
so it remains intact and then would be searchable.

Sheri's idea of using the site to be more informative about indymedia 
vision and explain better such concepts as open publishing and so on. 
Good idea

cheers
deva
portland imc contributor





On Jun 21, 2004, at 6:39 PM, bradley at riseup.net wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I wish i could have made it to AMC. Thanks for sending out notes about 
> the
> indymedia caucus. I'm Bradley, a volunteer with santa cruz indymedia. 
> I'm
> going to respond to one of bht's emails below, and then add my comments
> about code-base, focus, and hate speech / trolling.
>
>
>> the native americans referred to america as "turtle island".  While 
>> it is
>> comfusing to call it turtle island imc, that could be gotten around 
>> and it
>> is a good way to alleviate the concerns of validating the united 
>> states.
>>
>> in the banner, it could say "turtle island imc" and below it faded 
>> could
>> say something like "a syndication site for united states imc's"
>
>
> Turtle Island Indymedia sounds great to me!
> (Let's payback Josh for indymedia.us)
>
> Let's use turtle.indymedia.org!
>
> I think we should also get turtleisland.indymedia.org
>
> There is already a site called Turtle Island Native Network with the 
> URL
> turtleisland.org, which is fine with with me ( ;
>
>> Furthermore, I personally feel that the newswire should be syndication
>> only, when people push the "publish" button it should take them to a 
>> page
>> with local imcs and have a note for them to pich the closest imc to 
>> them
>> geographically.
>
>
> I support that idea very much!
>
>
>> As far as an editorial team and feature writers, I think that should 
>> be
>> very organic.  Many local imc's currently have in place an editorial 
>> team
>> that writes features for their local and just making them features on
>> turtle island imc saves work time and promotes local work.  But, there
>> will still be times when it would be good to collaborate and make 
>> specific
>> features so I wouldnt want to make any policy saying one way or the 
>> other.
>
>
> I agree here too.
>
>
>> I think that is all I have for now.
>> bht
>> portland
>
>
> I've been using the editorial features of DadaIMC since Santa Cruz made
> the switch from Active to DadaIMC (at least a year ago...) I used Mir's
> editorial features while working on FTAAimc.org. Both interfaces are 
> very
> nice, and each have their own advantages and disadvantages. 
> Furthermore,
> SF-Active certainly has some great features as well, like Indybay's 
> topic
> pages and calendar interface! (I can go on about my feelings at some
> point...) Overall though, I feel that turtle island indymedia would run
> the smoothest on Mir!
>
> Again, I can go into details later, but one really nice aspect of Mir 
> is
> the ease of communication between the editorial collective. Mir has a
> built in message board for communication within the interface and 
> there is
> a place to leave editorial comments within each individual article!
>
> I liked bht's idea to have a focus on anti-racism as well as
> political-prisoners, but I feel that the work of Critical Resistance is
> very important. CR sees ALL prisoners as political-prisoners, and
> therefore does not distinguish between 'political-prisoners' and
> 'non-political-prisoners' or 'regular prisoners.' for more on that, 
> check
> criticalresistance.org and
> http://santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/8629/index.php
>
> And, I agree with bht about feeding the trolls and I don't like doing 
> it.
> Trolls are annoying and i support a publishing policy against abuse.
> Several abuses have been meantioned already, and I would definately add
> 'publishing fake articles' as one of the abuses. I can say more, but I
> don't like feeding the trolls. A specific forum for talking about 
> trolls
> is a good idea given the reality of the situation, but if the trolls 
> are
> able to troll through the forum, then that forum may work to our
> disadvantage....
>
> sincerely,
> Bradley
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