[Imc-tech] Fwd: [Imc-summaries] IMC Tech Summary For December 5th 2001

Paul Riismandel listgeek at mediageek.org
Wed Dec 5 11:43:10 CST 2001


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>IMC-TECH SUMMARY:
>         Hard Drive / Server Problems
>         Donations To Imc-Tech
>         Indymedia.Us
>         Sarai Mail Server Update
>         RSS, Features, And Syndication
>         Pushtoeye/Loudeye Problems
>         Indymirror
>         Indycate (Syndication)
>         Indymedia Technology Options Site
>         Automating Cities List
>         European Tech & Hackmeetings
>         sftp For Secure ftp
>         Updating Colors / Graphics On www.Indy
>         IMC List Archives And Search Engines
>         Logs.Indymedia.Org
>         Radical 0.1
>         Dealing With Email Viruses
>         Drop - Indy 24/7 Web Radio Project
>
>Non-Tech Related:
>         Media Politics Group Meets in Philly
>         Reading Empire List
>         D14 in Belgium
>         Argentina IMC
>         West Coast IMC Gathering
>         IMC-Finance / Money Issues
>         Philly IMC Buys A Building
>         Rainbow Gathering IMC
>         IMC Womens List
>         IMC World Social Forum
>         Book: Media-Activist Manual
>         Getting Contacts For All IMC's
>
>
>===========================IMC-Tech Summary==========================
>
>Hard Drive / Server Problems
>         Stallman's hard drive filled up on the 2nd. We made the
>         usual rounds clearing out some unnecessary files that wern't
>         needed but there wasn't to much to clear. When the drives
>         fill up people have problems posting, pages display
>         blank, and other bad stuff happens.
>
>
>Donations To IMC-Tech
>         In response to the hard drive problem we've received around
>         $1370 in the last couple days through the techdonate.indy
>         page. We should use this money to help quickly support getting
>         what we need for stallman and other imc's that are getting
>         servers. The donated money is sitting in our pay pal account
>         until it can be transferred to an imc-tech account.
>
>
>Indymedia.us
>         Looks like we'll be able to register indymedia.us
>         in a couple of months.
> 
>http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-tech/2001-December/006326.html
>
>
>Sarai Mail Server Update
>         Micah, Deanna, and crew are working on moving over to the
>         new mail server soon. Until we get off turtle it can
>         sometimes take many hours for mail to go out to a list.
> 
>http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-tech/2001-December/006350.html
>
>
>RSS, Features, And Syndication
>         There has been more continuing discussion about fixing
>         our rss feeds and other cool syndication projects.
> 
>http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-tech/2001-November/006101.html
>
>
>Indymirror
>         Idan wrote a little python program to automate pulling
>         indymedia content off of sites running active for
>         mirroring and syndication purposes.
>         http://tech.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=302
>
>
>Indycate
>         More indymedia syndication projects...
> 
>http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-tech/2001-November/006139.html
> 
>http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-tech/2001-November/006171.html
>
>
>Indymedia Technology Options Site
>         If you want to know about all the different programs and
>         software packages that have been developed to run and support
>         indymedia sites and what you can choose for your IMC then
>         check out the Technology Options Site. Also if you're working
>         on an indymedia related project, be sure to mosey over and
>         add your project.
>         http://www.bandwidthcoop.org/imc/tech/FrontPage
>
>
>Automating Cities List
>         For IMC's not on stallman you can keep your cities list
>         up to date by using a cron job to grab
>         http://indymedia.org/cities.inc
>
>
>European IMC-Tech And Hackmeetings
>         During the Chaos Computer Club Congress in Berlin
>         between christmas and new years there will be a European
>         imc-tech meeting.
>         http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-europa-tech
>
>         The Italians are organizing a cool hackers/politics
>         congress called hackmeeting.
>         https://www.autistici.org/mailman/listinfo/euro-hkm
>
>
>sftp For Secure ftp
>         Stefani installed openssh 3.0 so everybody with an sftp
>         client can now do secure ftp without either using confusing
>         scp or insecure normal ftp. Thanks Stefani!
> 
>http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-tech/2001-November/006178.html
>
>
>Updating Colors / Graphics On www.Indy
>         Mark from SF and others want to engage in a face lift of
>         www.indy to make it up to date, pretty, readable, and
>         cool. I'm sure other graphics types would be welcome in
>         collaboration. Email mark and get on the imc-presenation
>         list.
> 
>http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-tech/2001-November/006219.html
>
>
>IMC List Archives And Search Engines
>         The lists by default are indexed by search engines
>         sometimes people complain about their info getting listed.
>         Basically by default all open lists are archived by
>         the engines. Normally this allows people to easily search
>         through the archives. Some lists don't want this because
>         they need to protect people's privacy. We can close your list
>         to search engines if you want.
> 
>http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-tech/2001-December/006285.html
>
>
>Logs.Indymedia.Org
>         They traffic logs aren't run through analog regularly, many
>         imc's want this. It's a great job for somebody to do.
>         The thread below even explains what needs to be done.
> 
>http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-tech/2001-December/006275.html
>
>
>Radical 0.1
>         Idan the productive is at it again, this time he's got a
>         front end framework for active xml-rpc in ruby.
>         http://tech.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=307
>
>
>Dealing With Email Viruses
>         Email viruses almost exclusively affect people who are very
>         politically incorrect! To run Microsoft Outlook Express and be an
>         activist is like being an environmentalist who drives an SUV.
>         Don't do it! Microsoft is evil and email viruses are karma's way
>         of punishing people who use microsoft programs. Needless to say
>         there has been a fair amount of discussion about how to deal with
>         all the bad activists who are using virus prone software.
> 
>http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-tech/2001-December/006250.html
>
>
>Drop - Indy Web Radio Project
>         Drop is a web radio project that started out of the web radio
>         collaborations during Genoa, S29, and the WTO Qatar Project.
>         Basically it's a way for various IMC's to help collaborate
>         to add and schedule programs on a 24/7 web radio project.
>         It's cool shit, and it's up so you can listen now.
> 
>http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-audio/2001-December/001288.html
>
>
>
>================================Non-Tech Related=======================
>
>Media Politics Group Meets in Philly
>         There are tentative plans for the media politics discussion
>         group to have a meeting on the 12th of January in Philly
>         to continue discussions around developing critiques of the
>         FCC, corporate media, and articulating a strategy for
>         extending indymedia's media politics future.
>         http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediapolitics
>
>
>Reading Empire Discussion List
>         Empire is the much talked about book by Antonio Negri
>         and Michael Hardt about globalization and resistance.
>         A group of us have been reading it and want to discuss
>         the implications to the anti-globalization struggle
>         and our indymedia organizing. We are looking for other
>         people to join us.
>         http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/empire
>
>
>D14 in Belgium
>         Next week there will be a very large anti-globalization
>         protest in Brussels. There are tons of indymedia related
>         projects converging to make it a riotous good time.
>         If you're in Europe you should go, if you're not, I'm
>         sure they could use remote support work. If you work at
>         a community or pirate radio station hook up with them
>         to play mp3's or the live audio coverage. I believe they
>         intend to have all coverage be in English, Dutch, and
>         French. The Belgium IMC also needs money to help cover
>         the costs during D14.
>         http://Belgium.indymedia.org
>
>
>Argentina IMC
>         Argentina is facing a sever economic crisis and it's being
>         shit upon by the IMF. IMCistas have been running around
>         helping workers in occupied factories write their own
>         stories, covering strikes, and generally doing a fine job.
>         The IMF wants to bail out the broke government the IMC's
>         also broke and we need to provide a little fiscal
>         mutual-aid to help the IMC counter the IMF's evil plans.
>         Consider having your local IMC do a fundraiser for
>         the Argentines. During the crisis they've been producing
>         reports in both Spanish and English.
>         http://Argentina.indymedia.org
>
>
>West Coast IMC Gathering
>         Vancouver will be hosting a West Coast IMC gathering
>         January 24-27, 2002. They invite IMC's from the West Coast
>         and beyond for three days of workshops, networking,
>         and indymedia fun.
>         http://Vancouver.indymedia.org./front.php3?article_id=6735
>
>
>IMC-Finance / Money Issues
>         By accident the IMC Finance Working group raised $45,000.
>         Don't ask how, it's a long story, and what can we say,
>         accidents happen. :) They aren't empowered to do anything
>         with it, nor do we have a functional decision making
>         process for it. The group has given out a few small amounts
>         from the global funds but is uncomfortable doing more. We
>         need more imc's on the list and creative ways to use this
>         money effectively without becoming a centralized ngo.
>         http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-finance
>
>
>Philly IMC Buys A Building
>         The Philly IMC is buying a building. They got a three
>         story building in West Philly for $15,000 at an auction.
>         They've been doing mad fundraising over the last few weeks
>         but they need more money to make their goal by the 14th.
>         Once they get the space they expect it require another
>         $15k in repairs. The Philly IMC rocks, they already have
>         a licensed radio station, and now they're getting a buiding.
>         http://phillyimc.org/space/
>
>
>Rainbow Gathering Indymedia
>         The rainbow tribe folks are working on setting up an imc to
>         cover the 2002 US national rainbow gathering.
> 
>http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/rainbow-imc/2001-October/000000.html
>
>
>IMC Womens List
>         There is an imc womens list which has been discussing
>         gender relations, womens issues, sexism and more issues
>         related to indymedia and the movement in general. They
>         started out of meetings during the DC anti-war convergence
>         in September. There is also talk of having a topical page
>         which links to womens related articles posted on indymedia
>         sites.
>         http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-women
>
>
>IMC World Social Forum
>         There is a list for coordinating coverage of the World
>         Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil in January. The
>         Brazilian IMCistas have asked that all indymedia folks
>         coming down to the WSF get on the list. Last year there
>         were people from half a dozen imc's but we never even
>         had a full meeting. This year it's hoped that we can
>         coordinate much more comprehensive coverage of the event.
>         http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-wsf
>
>
>Book: Media Activist Manual
>         Han Soete and some folks from the Belgium IMC crew are
>         working on a book about media activism. They want
>         to find people to contribute articles and feedback
>         on their project. Email han at indymedia.org for the
>         scoop.
>
>
>Getting Contacts For All IMC's
>         The Communcications Working Group is trying to compile
>         contacts for all the IMC's out there. If you're not on
>         the list or your info isn't up to date then please update
>         it.
>         http://www.indymedia.org/contact.php3
>
>
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