[imc-commwork] DRAFT THREE "notice on list summaries"

[Sheri Herndon]

hey,

glad to see this happening of course.

i'm curious thought, roving, is there a reason why you haven't 
included any examples of past summaries?

seems like that is a good prod for any working group to see what has 
been done before and how it's so cool.  it also shows there's been a 
precedent (as my lengthy email before discussed).  i guess if you 
don't think it's a good idea, i'd love to hear why before you send it 
out.  it seems like a no brainer to me.  i think that there is a 
reason people haven't been doing summaries before and i'm not sure 
that this email or idea really solves it.  i think at the very least 
letting them know about these have been done and they were really 
cool and everyone loved them is one step toward inspiring people.

here are the ones from summaries archive primarily but also a few i 
could locate on comm and process.  for examples, we can pick and 
choose one from each category.  i have sent the tech and new imc 
summaries to both those lists since their wiki pages did not include 
these summaries.

Network (tech and nontech) summary dec 2001
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-summaries/2001-December/000029.html

imc-tech summary may 2002:
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-summaries/2002-May/000038.html
imc-tech summary november 2001
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-summaries/2001-November/000028.html
imc-tech summary october 2001
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-summaries/2001-October/000026.html
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-summaries/2001-October/000025.html
imc-tech summary sept 2001
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-summaries/2001-September/000024.html
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-summaries/2001-September/000023.html
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-summaries/2001-September/000022.html
imc-tech summary july 2001
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-summaries/2001-July/000020.html
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-summaries/2001-July/000018.html
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-summaries/2001-July/000015.html

imc-process feb 2002:
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-summaries/2002-February/000033.html

imc-communication summary jan 2001
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-process/2001-January/000300.html

new-imc summary feb 2002:
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-summaries/2002-February/000032.html
new imc summary jan 2002:
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-summaries/2002-January/000030.html
asian new imc summary feb 2002
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-summaries/2002-February/000031.html
new imc march/april summary may 2002
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-summaries/2002-May/000037.html
new imc summary aug 2001
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-summaries/2001-August/000021.html
new imc update july 2001
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-summaries/2001-July/000019.html

finance empowerment summary april 2002
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-summaries/2002-April/000035.html

list of key emails from all lists jan-march 2001:
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-communication/2001-March/000784.html
(NOTE:  this isn't a summary per se but more just highlights across the lists.)

i also thnk perhaps there's a difference between a big year end 
summary that includes answers to the questions you ask in the 
invitation and regular weekly or monthly (ideal) 
updates/highlights/proposals/decisions.  maybe this is a good way for 
us to get caught up on alot of activities over the course of the past 
(timeframe is still unclear to me - year?, 6 months, 2 years? 3 
months?) and then begin a regular practice.

ciao
sheri

ps - it's pretty amazing to read through the summaries from the past 
and see where we've been, how far we've come in certain ways and how 
little progress we've made in certain areas.  some of those areas 
seem to me to be the difficult places, as well as strategic 
structural leverage points for our healthy growth as an interntaional 
network (decentralized or not)....