[Imc-radio] Proposal to mail Meridith a MD

[Mike Lehman]

Clint,
I'm OK with this. The people of Guatemala need all the help they can 
getting their story out.
Mike Lehman

Clint Popetz wrote:
> All,
> 
> 	Meridith Kruse is in Guatemala (in Xela) studying spanish.
> The school at which she is studying is very political, comprised of
> many UNRG members past and present.  This, coupled with her interest
> in human rights struggles, leads her to a lot of juicy interview
> situations.  Right now she's transcribing them and sending them back
> in text, but I would like to send her one of our MD recorders for the
> summer.  She could return it in person in August.  In return, she
> would send us lots of cool audio for IMCRN and possibly FSRN.  
> 
> 	Since the summer is slow for news and volunteers around here,
> and since we have four working MD recorders, I think we can handle one
> being on longer-term-loan.  In the past, a consensus of the tech group
> allowed this sort of thing, but the tech group no longer meets, so
> that's not possible.  So I'm soliciting feedback, and if I here no
> strong objections I'll ask the steering comittee to approve this, so
> that it passes through an open meeting.
> 
> 	So, thoughts?
> 				-Clint