[IMC-US] has everyone just gone up and left?

[Tribal Scribal]

Yes. Let's come up w/an agenda or something.

d.o.



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>From: max <max at michiganimc.org>
>Reply-To: "Working Group for IMC-US." <imc-us at lists.cu.groogroo.com>
>To: "Working Group for IMC-US." 
><imc-us at lists.cu.groogroo.com>,inner_alchemy at SAFe-mail.net
>CC: imc-us at lists.cu.groogroo.com
>Subject: Re: [IMC-US] has everyone just gone up and left?
>Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:29:52 -0500
>
>I also think we should have another meeting.  we didn't even really finish 
>the
>last one, and then the whole election thing happened...I think now we be a 
>good
>time to have another meeting and talk about this stuff.
>
>max
>
>
>Quoting inner_alchemy at SAFe-mail.net:
>
> > hey all:
> >
> > > So, now that we have this "us.indymedia" site, and we have a roughshop 
>way
> > > of using it, I think there are af ew steps we need to take to keep it
> > > working.
> > >
> >   If you have any bit of tech knowledge of rss feeds and the
> > > like, and you have a bit of time that you could set aside for 
>outreach,
> > > perhaps you can contact local imcs that are having trouble with
> > > syndication and get them syndicated.  why do we need at least one 
>person
> > > from each local?   so if we had at least one person from each
> > > local, then they could update their posts as necessary.
> >
> > I don't have any rss knowledge, but i would be willing to put together a
> > rough draft of a message for the imc's that don't take an active
> > role/features aren't getting syndicated and send it to their general 
>lists...
> > the message could remind peeps that us-imc was there, give them a tech 
>email
> > to contact if they are having trouble with their rss feeds, and they 
>could
> > contact another email if they want to learn more about adding their own
> > syndicated features.  it appears the cities with features getting 
>syndicated
> > are the following, so i would want to check out to see who isn't and be 
>sure
> > to contact them...
> > * Michigan * DC * Boston * San Diego * Minneapolis *
> > * New York City * new Orleans * Arkasas * Hudson Mohawk *
> > * Portland * LA * Houston * Chicago * Tennessee *
> > * Santa Cruz * Pittsburgh * Madison *  Baltimore
> > * SF Bay (aka Indybay) *  St. Louis * Tennessee
> > * Urbana-Champaign * Western Mass
> > (ps, this is in addition to bradley's list of who's on the ed-list!)
> >
> > > 2.  we should try to focus our feature making so it is less broad,
> > > especially from imcs that are making the same features and then they 
>dump
> > > on the syndicated wire with a bunch of the basic same feature.  that 
>looks
> > > bad, i think.  perhaps we can focus more on regional/local stuff to 
>our
> > > respective indymedia.  I know that is tough and not something tha tis
> > > entirely likely.  but perhaps mostly just making sure that what is 
>being
> > > featured isnt some article that is spammed to every local imc on the
> > > network.
> >
> > i agree, but that takes more local imc work...
> >
> >
> > > 3.  i would like to see more people actively promoting articles,
> > > especially articles that dont originate from your local imc.  it would 
>be
> > > nice to see a new promoted article each day and try to vary the imc it
> > > comes from.
> >
> > i am scared to promote an article b'c i'm still sure what would qualify 
>being
> > promoted and what wouldn't.  there apears to be differences in what 
>people
> > think we should feature and what we shouldn't. maybe this could be a 
>topic in
> > a us-imc meeting soon?
> >
> >
> > > I am unsure of how much sense this all makes, but now that we have 
>this
> > > figurhead of an imc that is a network of many local us imcs, we should
> > > also start to think about working in a networked fashion.
> >
> > bht: whatcha mean, "working i a networked fashion"?  what idea/example 
>do you
> > have? (so i can get a visual)
> >
> > SIDENOTE:  what can us-imc do to assist atlanta this weekend?  they need
> > assistance, what can peeps do that are there?  what can peeps do who are
> > still at home? (ie. radio interviews, special articles, etc)
> >
> > SIDENOTE: we should begin thinking about dc and january 20th and how we 
>want
> > to do that.
> >
> > "heart" - betsy :)
> > representing "THE LOU!"
> >
> >
> > www.stlimc.org
> > be the media
> >
> >
> >
> >
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