[IMC-US-Tech] Re: [IMC-US] Indymedia election plans

[Sascha Meinrath]

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Tribal Scribal wrote:

> Excellent! One thing on this end though: i've never seen the site!  :O 
> Sad but true, Can someone post the url?  I tried old ones, but no luck.

It's now up at:  us.indymedia.org (yeah!).

> I'd be glad to work on either the email or the pr when i return late this 
> afternoon (EST). I'll check-in here  then to see if anyone else has already 
> done that. Also, can you guys post a few bullet points on what needs to be 
> said to use as a guideline?

That would be great if you could do a first-run of the press release.  I'd 
suggest having information about:

1. What is the IMC-US site.
2. Why it's needed (i.e., election coverage).
3. How it's an inter-US-IMC collaboration (the first(?) national 
collaboration of IMC-stas).
4. How it connects local stories and will be an outlet for connecting 
local stories to the larger (trans)national context.

Anyone have other thoughts and ideas?

--Sascha

>> From: Sascha Meinrath <sascha at ucimc.org>
>> To: max <max at michiganimc.org>
>> CC: imc-us at ucimc.org, Tribal Scribal 
>> <valeoftheoaks at hotmail.com>,inner_alchemy at SAFe-mail.net, 
>> imc-us-tech at ucimc.org
>> Subject: Re: [IMC-US] Indymedia election plans
>> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 20:40:22 -0500 (CDT)
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> First off, the site looks GREAT!  I'm incredibly impressed by what 
>> everyone's pulled together and I think we're ready for the next steps.
>> 
>> On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, max wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm ready to start hiding junk on the newswire NOW.  I'm also willing to 
>>> start working on features.  I would propose that we just start doing this 
>>> stuff and work out the kinks on the fly.  we've gotten a lot of groundwork 
>>> covered, and it might be most efficient to see what we still need to be by 
>>> actually starting to do it, and seeing what we actually need. if we treat 
>>> the site as live starting tomorrow, and give ourselves a week to pass the 
>>> URL among relatively small circles, we could check in after five or six 
>>> days, work out whatever problems we encounter, and then start publicizing, 
>>> publicizing, publicizing.  how does that timeline sound?
>> 
>> I've been talking with a lot of folks and there's definitely tremendous 
>> interest in getting IMC-US up-and-running ASAP.  I think we've got the 
>> expertise and the people-power to deal with whatever might arise -- we just 
>> need to announce ourselves more widely and make one more invite to IMCs to 
>> have liaisons participate.
>> 
>> Two next steps that'll get us going and help build momentum:
>> 
>> 1. It would be great if someone could start drafting a press release for 
>> general dissemination (e.g., to allied press, groups, e-mail lists, etc.).
>> 
>> 2. An e-mail to key Indymedia lists inviting folks to become involved with 
>> the IMC-US editorial group, tech group, etc.
>> 
>> Anyone have a few minutes to make these happen?
>> 
>> In solidarity,
>> 
>> --Sascha Meinrath
>> Urbana-Champaign IMC
>> 
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Sascha Meinrath
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Acorn Worker Collective  ***  CU Wireless Network  ***  Free Press
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