[IMC-US] phone tools for your imc and the election

[evan]

There is a site, with info, smster.org. We need folks to go help us by
loading the java applet to help send out the sms's.

Tools? Sms loops and blasts with polling place information for the
voting date, breaking news, then moblization tools for all the
different coalitions of groups doing November 3rd protests against
fraud.

We're also potentially doing a bunch of phone call blasting both for
coordination purposes, but also potentially for protest moblization on
the day after.

The Michigan and Portland imc's are gonna probably use our voip tools
to adhoc phone / call centers tied in to their web radio and breaking
news fun. Any other imc which wants to we can set it up pretty
quickly.

in solidarity,
evan

ps, ana if it were possible to mention the smster.org site, we're
looking for more poeple to run nodes, maybe we could get it in a
feature on indymedia.us.


On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 21:36:36 -0500, Ana Nogueira <ana at riseup.net> wrote:
> 
> Hey evan, all this stuff is truly amazing. Any chance you could write
> something up in laymans terms in feature style so we can put it up on the
> website tonight?
> 
> Democracy now will be doing a very short hit on this tomorrow. 8 am in DC,
> 9am in NYC, 5 am on west coast, and then over and over all day long across
> the country.
> 
> Expect a hell of lot of traffic to our site. What do we want people to see
> the day before super duper tuesday?
> 
> 1. what groups are doing and how people can get involved. (d.o)
> 
> 2. what tools are available and why are they useful. (evan, if you can)
> 
> 3. context and content to the elections. (I can help a bit but could use
> help)
> 
> 
> 
> On 10/30/04 11:32 PM, "evan" <anarchogeek at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hey folks, i've been hacking on a bunch of phone and sms toys along
> > with some other folks over the last month. We did the infoline with
> > breaking news and events and radio over your phone during the RNC.
> >
> > Josh and the Michigan imc folks are going to use something we put
> > together to do incoming phone calls. We have created an 'adhoc pbx'
> > where people call in a number, and you can register other phones to
> > ring, the first person to pick up gets it. You can add and remove
> > phones just by entering in a code in the menu.
> >
> > What this lets us do is have an a single incoming number which you can
> > scale up to as many incoming calls as you want. Just get somebody else
> > to agree to take calls and they can add their phone to start getting
> > calls. When they want to leave, they just call back and unsubscribe.
> >
> > There is a cost, cus we'll be placing calls, it's about 2 cents per
> > minute, but it doesn't add up to much.
> >
> > We can also do call and sms blasts. The former also costs 2 cents per
> > minute, and the sms blasts are free.  The costs all go to the phone
> > company, we're not making any money on it.
> >
> > Anyway, we have toys, if anybody wants them.
> >
> > in solidarity,
> > evan
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