[Imc] Steering Group Minutes

[mike walcher]

Steering Group Meeting  Oct 7 2001

Marc facilitating

Job reports:

LIBRARIANS:  Urbana Free Library Book Salethis past
weekend, hopefully people will bring books

Next Meeting Tuesday 8:00 

New Terrorrism Links on Librarians Websites

Requestfrom Librarians: more links for Website.

Brian asked if links included US gov LAWS etc. Ellen
commented not directly but yes through links

Ellen followup: Request for more links.

Mike : comments on executice orders links 

Brian question the development of the newly formed US
government Office  of Home and Security ? Homeland
Security position. ?

OUTREACH 

IMC gathering : online registration forms 

1 dinner at least

Indyanappolis , Bloomington , St louis, Chicago,

contacting Seattle, Ohio Valley 

food? dinner saturday night, bagels etc for breakfast 

Tim Gibbs will be catering , Andy will be out of town
though as he usually helps TIm with cooking

 BRIAN comments on GRANT  from Resistance GROUP, 1 has
been written , possibility of another EMERGENCY grant
but not likely , to go forward with the first grant.

WORKSHOPS: Web design , Interviewing techniques,
Technology , Minidisc etc,  and Radio

Marc asks: Molly is interested in helping Nigerian IMC
and use the weekend event to have a fundraiser for
Nigerian IMC

Brian says says Saturday night is going to be a
fundraiser night for NIGERIAN IMC !

and going to talk with SDAS about doing social
theather friday night. MArc will be out of town.

SPACE: Brian has moved the junk computers to the front
and need truck to move computers to recycling place.

Brain request to work with Librarians to clean up area
in back room

Sarah comments on Concert Tuesday 

Brian says also concert on Monday 

TECH
 Paul says we have a volunteer to encode Newsshows in
to MP3 and put them up on site.

also we have another server , to turn in to a backup
server,  

PRINT 

Brent  says effort is losing some steam , may need
some new direction 

Marc asks if publication maybe going bi monthly ?

Brent says nothing much to report 

NEWS 

Marc , last week we talked about Mollys proposal to
support the Nigerian IMC 

Danielle tryed something new , to have 4 focus peices
instead of 1 

also used stuff from FreeSpeech TV 

Paul requests a rundown of upcoming shows 

when will MP3's be on ? 

marc says soon 

marc: Paul has organized a archive of minidiscs of all
past material

Mike: 

duscussion about 501 c3 status and making sure we stay
within our boundaries

infoshop is offering a new organizer for $3 per copy.
160 page pocket organizer.

A very useful tool for activists and we could resell
them for $6-$7 

discussion revolving around usefulness and quantity.

they are called slingshot Planners.

OLD BUSINESS

Website: SPAMMING some one is repetitively posting
things against the IMC 

"BOBBY" is his screenname 

Mike  he is posting to all the IMC's

it is time to hide these irrevelant posts.

Marc calls for objections NONE

a rather long discussion ensued revolving around spam
and what to do wth the flood of spam we have been
receiving .

NEW BUSINESS  

Paul:Give $$$ to WEFT 

6:00 tonight AWARE meeting Sunday 

PAUL requests for people to send stuff to IMC site to
be posted

Brian: requests a map for direction to the IMC
website.

Paul talks about the fact that people should post
their information to tech to be posted to the IMC

Brain requests more information about New terrorism
LAWS

talk of the UFO's and CIA connection SPAM 

Mike and Paul decide that it is SPAM

a request for a anti-spam email list on groo groo 



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