[Imc-lwg-work] [docs] HOW TO GET INVOLVED IN LWG

[Richard Malter]

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                HOW TO GET INVOLVED IN IMC LONDON WORKING GROUP (LWG)!

                   a user-friendly interface to the group's Charter 

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CHOOSE any work you like that contributes to the developing Indymedia network 
in London, the UK or the Republic of Ireland, or all of them at the same time. 
This can be technical, journalistic, photographic, artistic, legal, 
communication, finding a barn and painting it to do workshops in, fundraising, 
outreach, setting up a new project like web radio, TV, something printed, etc. 

  The work that you want to do we call a 'task'.
     
To get this new work going, please follow this procedure: -


* 1) Form a group. A new group can be as small as one person, and no limit on 
size.

* 2) Appoint a group Coordinator, who will act as delegate for your group, and 
who must have a public email address for contacting. The coordinator must read 
the LWG Charter and say that they understand and agree to work according to it. 
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-london-wg-work/2002-
April/000058.html

It will later on also be the coordinator's responsibility to write and publish 
regular summaries of progress in your group, and also to participate in 
decision-making between other groups in LWG, and outside of LWG. 

- Being a group coordinator might become a lot of work, but the position can 
later pass from one person to another within your group. The important thing is 
that there is always a working coordinator.

* 3) Decide on three things: clear goals for your work that can be understood 
by everyone else in LWG, how long you commit to continue your work, and how 
much notice you will give everyone else in LWG if you decide to stop working 
for any reason you choose. 

* 4)  What happens next is that the proposed work is considered by roughly all 
those people/groups already doing other work in LWG. The important point to be 
checked is if the proposed work follows the Charter of LWG. 
	
	- if the rough consensus is "yes", then Jack and Jill can begin to work.

	- if the rough consensus is "there are problems", 
          then the reasons will be clearly explained, 
          and the work can be modified and proposed again.


THAT'S IT.
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IMPORTANT NOTE
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Your group can work on an unlimited number of different tasks it chooses, but 
the whole of the above procedure (*1 - *4) must be followed separately for each 
one of these tasks. 
Example: your group might run a science column, and also fundraise: then the 
whole of the above procedure (*1-*4) must be followed twice - once for each of 
the two tasks of fund-raising and running the science column.
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EXAMPLE
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Jack and Jill decide to create and maintain a science section on the Indymedia 
UK website. Jill reads through the LWG Charter, makes sure she understands it 
and that she agrees to what it says. She begins as Coordinator and gives her 
email address as a contact. 
Then together Jack and Jill decide on their work goals: -
putting together two articles a month, which they will source from the Newswire 
on the IMC UK website and from elsewhere 
(becuase IMC UK is an Open Publishing website not a forum for their own writing 
http://www.cat.org.au/maffew/cat/openpub.html); 
they decide to continue to run the science column for six months, give a 
summary of work done to the rest of LWG each month, and to give a month's 
notice if they decide to quit before then for any reason.
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ANY QUESTIONS? please send a mail to: imc-london-wg-general@lists.indymedia.org


HOPE YOU GET INVOLVED SOON.