[Imc-tech] meeting?

[Brian Hagy]

saturday is fine to meet for me.  saturday early afternoon is preferable.

brian


On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Molly Stentz wrote:

> Hi,
> Yes we should meet soon.
> When is good for people? Saturday? Tomorrow afternoon?
> 
> Also, Zach what version did you get of active did you install? Did you get
> it off cat.org.au? There have been rapid changes so I think we can use
> more recent versions.
> 
> I had mailed some of the tech folks to ask about the possibility of just
> getting set up on one of the global imc servers - i first got a "no" b/c
> they were waiting on a new server to come in and then got a "yes" from
> someone else. I had though that the second person would come through, but
> they didn't. I have followed up, but no response, so I don't know what
> happened.
> 
>  There are 14 other cities/areas on the waiting list to be set up 
> (including Palestine) so I don't really feel like badgering them further.
> 
> I will ask again about the URL, since that seems pretty trivial.
> They were having problems with one of their dns servers resulting
> in instability of nameserving for cities using that machine, though, so
> hopefully that's been resolved. 
> 
> I would really like to see us get a good site up. i think if we spent an
> afternoon collectively we could give it our best shot, and if we couldn't
> get it going, then I'd be satisfied to do something else.
> I think first impressions to the public are really valuable, and I'd like
> to see us start with a bang. No one's going to care if we upgrade in 3
> months and have a much better site then, imho.
> 
> So, tomorrow? Saturday?
> 
>  -Molly
> 
> 
> On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Zachary C.Miller wrote:
> 
> > We should meet, regroup, forumulate a strategy, and get to work on
> > this website.
> > 
> > Given that the IMC software is a pain in the ass I propose we should:
> > 
> > Create a simple front page with links to materials that we have
> > uploaded.
> > 
> > Get urbana.indymedia.org and champaign.indymedia.org to point to my
> > server.
> > 
> > Get listed on various IMC server's index of IMC servers.
> > 
> > Then after we have all that in place we can worry about software. We
> > have two options figure out the existing IMC software by getting more
> > connected with the exisitng IMC-tech community (pouring through
> > mailing list archives, joining in on irc meetings, volunteering to
> > help maintain the code, etc) or build our own software from familiar
> > tools. Both are daunting tasks. I feel like the easy thing to do would
> > be the latter but the communal and globally friendly thing to do would
> > be the former.
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> > 
> > -- 
> > Zachary C. Miller - @= - http://wolfgang.groogroo.com/
> > IMSA 1995 - UIUC 2000 - Just Another Leftist Muppet
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> > 
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