[Imc-midwest-regional] Orphan IMCs -- call for volunteer shepherds:

[Sascha Meinrath]

Hi all,

Now's the time to step forward if you'd like to help shepherd Midwest IMCs
through the New-IMC process.  It's actually very easy, often requiring
just an hour or two of your time total for each IMC.  I offer to help
orient folks to the process if that's what's holding you back
(meta-shepherding as it were ;) -- but it would be extremely useful to
have some folks from this list helping new folks navigate the application
process.

Please let me know,

--Sascha Meinrath
Urbana-Champaign IMC

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Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 04:20:31 -0500
To: new-imc at indymedia.org
From: Jay <jay at tao.ca>
Cc: forrest at truffula.net
Subject: [New-imc] getting a grasp on 7 U.S. "orphans"

Hi,

I spent a bit of time tonight trying to get a grasp on the current
progress of the seven current U.S. new-imc applicants.  Over the last few
days there have been a few more volunteers to help clear the back log and
get these fine folks up and running.  Yay!  So, over the couple days we
should be able to get things rolling.  I'm going to cc this message to all
of those who have been communicating on the new-imc list from the aspiring
IMCs so everyone can start to get on the same page.

So far, the people who have volunteered to help are
Arc (from Ithaca)
Nick (from Houston)
Geoffrey (from Winnipeg)
Aaron (from Arkansas)
me (from Philadelphia)

Sascha (from Urbana) has suggested to the imc-midwest list that someone
from that group offer to help the midwestern new-imcs, so maybe some other
volunteers will emerge.

I'll list the current applicants below, along with suggestions of who
could help each one, then I'll e-mail all the folks involved (cc'ing the
messages to this list) and see if this shake up sounds reasonable to
everyone.

-- IMC Binghamton
-- IMC Southern New York
Arc -- makes sense for you to work with these groups, right?  How does
that sound to you?

-- IMC Kansas City
-- IMC Lawrence, KS
Aaron -- you've offered to help these groups.  Great!  Since this would be
your first time to help a new-imc group through the process, I'll happily
help you with this (unless someone from the midwest IMC list who is
familiar with the new-imc process would be able to help, which makes much
more sense than me doing it from all the way out here in the eastern U.S.)


-- IMC South Dakota
-- IMC Lakota (South Dakota)
Geoffrey, do you think you may be able to communicate with these groups?
Geograpically, you may be one of the closest people to South Dakota --
okay, I know it's far away, but perhaps there could be a connection.  I
can help if you think you need it.

-- IMC Rouge
Nick, would you be interested in working with this group?

Like I said, I'll send some e-mails to everyone tonight and see if this
can start to make sense.

It's a start,

Jay