[Imc-radio] IMC Radio News Minutes 8-10-2004

[dave berliner]

IMC Radio News Minutes 8-10-2004

There is a need for all IMCRN correspondents to return minidisk 
recorders to the IMC if they aren't currently in use for gathering news 
sound.  If some of them are broken or lost, that is understandable, but 
we really need to know how many recorders we can have available.  We 
also want volunteers!!  We need people in the field gathering sound, 
talking to people and getting involved with the community.

Sandra is going to email the radio list with an Appeals Fundraiser we 
intend on posting to the IMC website.  We are basically asking for 
donations or subscriptions.
"Just a thought:  Maybe we could have a Donations form available on the 
internet as well as a Subscriptions form."

Sandra made it clear that the IMC working groups are now more than ever 
before in need of independent funding and we are starting to become 
expected to raise money.  She was concerned that it might be a bad idea 
for working groups to have to fund themselves and that an independent 
funding source or fund raising working group should be more active in 
the attempts to raise money.

Greg could not attend the IMCRN meeting this week due to a malicious 
tree that has given him a punch in the eye.  He also tells me that his 
rearview mirror appears  to have been vandalized.  I don't know if this 
has anything to do with our broadcast but I just wanted to get this 
information out to the IMC.

On this weeks show, at this point, it looks like we have, "Soundbite" 
and Another interview with Greg Springer concerning Tourism in 
Colombia.  We would like to mention the community wireless network 
gathering that will take place in the coming week.  Other stories will 
develop as the week comes to a close.

Last weeks show is currently available for download at the UCIMC 
website at

http://www.ucimc.org/media/all/display/2940

We at the IMC Radio News would also like to give a special thanks to 
WEFT for the funding of past IMCRN programming as well as the $20 a 
week commitment toward the development of better local IMCRN service.

Keep Local News ALIVE!!!

dave