[Imc-india] Re: [New-imc] imc india - tech support and being linked

[Boud Roukema]

http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-india/2001-October/000091.html

Jay wrote:
> I agree that IMC-India seems ready to be linked back through the left-hand
> column of the IMC sites.  All the organizing that's going on in India seems
> very exciting!  The link was removed for understandable reasons, that the
...

> Vidhi says that there are people in Madurai who are learning how to update
> the features.  That's great, especially because right now the top feature

Well, the Madurai people say they are planning to upload material, but
they don't yet seem ready to edit features themselves. But as long as
the feature editing is done openly, e.g. with posting of drafts to
imc-india@lists.indymedia.org, I guess that N.America based feature
editing is compatible with the locality criteria, at least to start
off with, particularly since locals are around providing
content. The Madurai group have posted at least once:

http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-india/2001-October/000090.html

to the imc-india list, so they can clearly post again if they want to comment
on the feature editing!

> on the imc-india site is from June 22.  My suggestion is that as soon as
> they start updating the features we add the link again.  Imc-india, let
> everyone know as soon as the features start to be updated again.  As soon
> as that happens I'll be a strong proponent of re-linking the IMC India site
> as soon as possible. 


At 10/31/01, Sheri Herndon wrote:
>i've been emailing with vidhi who is working hard with various people 
>and groups to get an imc in india really going.  alot has been 
>happening there and this is exciting!
>
>they are needing some technical support and also here's the question 
>again of the link off the main page.
...

>are there any people on these lists with the tech skills to help out?
>
>an imc happening in india is really important.  i think they are 
>meeting the criteria that we have agreed are essential.
>
>what do others think?  still concerns?


>>From: "Vidhi Parthasarathy" <vidhip@systemsmonitor.com>
...
>>we're just trying to focus on getting the foundations going for the
>>collective at madurai, india
>>which is ready to take up updating of the site. from there, it can diversify
>>to other regions in india.
>>
>>we badly need a tech contact. we are not able to update our features column.
>>can you provide us a contact ?

Tech contact
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There's Bonnie <rabbit at cownow.com> who has started preparing
a feature and is on imc-india:
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-india/2001-October/000075.html

and Vatsan <varadara at cs.umn.edu> 
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-india/2001-October/000078.html

and apparently Stephanie <banerian at u.washington.edu> .

There's also Srihari Yamanoor who is from Tamil Nadu (though studying
in the US) and is on imc-india:
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-india/2001-September/000035.html

He clearly has fantastic web skills, but I don't know if Vidhi or Siv
or others have said hello to him directly... ?


Left-column
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As Siv clearly said, it's hardly for me to decide! 

I do have a practical point, which I think agrees with Jay's point:

At the moment, there's virtually no spam (stuff unrelated to India) on
the india.indymedia.org site. Once the site is listed in the
left-column, could there be a risk that spam will drown out the useful
stuff? If we follow Jay's suggestion of waiting until some people have
started updating the features, then the regular creation of features will
be a way of highlighting good stories so that readers are not discouraged
by the spam.

But it would also be good to have someone who can shift non-India
stories to the hidden list. (While waiting for a fuller editorial 
policy.)

Bonnie, Vatsan, Stephanie, Srihari? Can anyone finish Bonnie's draft
feature: 
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-india/2001-October/000075.html

and do one or more of you have the time for regular feature
updates?


Communications
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At 10/31/01, Sheri Herndon wrote:
> what do others think?  still concerns?

Well, it would seem efficient to me if Vidhi <vidhip at systemsmonitor.com> 
and Amudhan <amudhanrp at rediffmail.com> could
subscribe to the imc-india mailing list, since they are two key people
who don't seem to be on the mailing list at the moment.


Madurai group
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Their post is here
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-india/2001-October/000090.html

and my reply here
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-india/2001-October/000092.html (?)

It would be good to see an open meeting where at least some of the 23
Madurai social interest type groups are invited. I don't think waiting
for the meeting is a reason for delaying left-column listing, but in 
a city of a million people

http://travel.indiamart.com/places/cities/madurai/

it would be good to know that outreach is continuing! With more groups 
involved, chances are that more local Madurai people would have internet
access, to make the group as diverse and robust as possible.