[IMC-US] what we want from indyconference

[Aaron Couch]

i just bought tickets and am excited to attend.  i am excited to meet
people and learn as much about the different projects that are
happening in the indy universe, what has been the most succesful, what
mistakes can we learn from. here are a couple of workshop suggestions
i sent to 'baku' a month or so ago:

1) sanfran / indyaby / portland: I would like to see a workshop by both indbay
and sf.indymedia sites discussing how both of their operating models
work, and what they have done successfully and what has not been
successful for them.  they seem to me to be the most successful IMC
sites and I would like to share in some of their wisdom.

2) RNC  / counter inaugrual report back: the coverage and organization
at the RNC in NYC and the counter inaugural in DC was incredible. i
would like to hear from some of the organizers about how they were
able to pull it off / what they would do differently in the future.

3) moving beyond protests:   IMCs have proven to be incredibly
efficient and powerful tools for covering large events and protests.
what strategies can IMCs use to bring that kind of coverage on a more
regular basis, to become more fully operating news outlets.

also it would be cool to have a Wiki page or somewhere that people
could post ideas that they have for discussion topics, or links to
resources, or conference listserve, so that some of these discussions
could get underway beforehand (or if these exist, for peeps to point
me to them).

peace, 

-Aaron (from Philly)


On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 01:53:17 -0500, muna hijazi <endlesswar at thieves.org> wrote:
> 
> permission granted.
> 
> our techie just moved to florida and i'm the only one with any interest in tech
> -- and that's just a necessity.
> 
> thank you and yes, yeah, fuck yeah.
> 
> x,
> m.
> 
> 
> Quoting john duda <john at manifestor.org>:
> 
> > On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 12:57:07AM -0500, muna rva imc wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > i don't know what i want from us indymedia. i'm not sure if i even want a
> > us
> > > indymedia. but i know i've got one and it seems to need some help. it
> > certainly
> > > seems to need some spanish and some folks to hold down the front and
> > center
> > > features. i know i'd love it if richmond was finally syndicated on the site
> > and
> > > if folks would respond to my many inquiries about this... anyway...
> > >
> >
> > hey i think i tried to sort out the issues with your tech person on
> > irc, but i couldn't quite make it clear what needed to happen...  with
> > your (collective's) permission, i will ask one of the indypgh techs to
> > just go in and make the changes...
> >
> > >
> > > i think it'd be nice to have put corporate media out of a job in ten
> > years.
> >
> > fuck yeah.
> >
> > -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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