[New-imc] Re: [IMC-Process] whats with cleveland?

[Sheri]

hi everyone,

i'm cc'ing a few folks from the imc cleveland collective so they can 
speak to this more directly in case they are not on this list.  but 
i'll share just a bit of history that i remember for background.

carloz is right, yes they are meeting and getting reorganized. 
sascha from urbana imc is one of their contacts and is helping them 
cause they are in the same region.

back a while ago, there was some extensive conversations about 
cleveland because someone wanted to give a donation to imc cleveland. 
i sent an email to the then contact for the imc cleveland contact 
asking how they were doing etc and whether they were active (given 
the state of their features, etc).  thus a lengthy thread was started.

here's one piece of a thread from the imc-unity list.  this list was 
set up after the san francisco gathering last april (2001) where we 
discussed the draft network charter and principles of unity.  a 
working group was formed and a list to talk about these principles 
that are at the heart of our work on the new imc list for bringing on 
new locals to the network.

http://lists.cat.org.au/pipermail/imc-unity/2002-January/000071.html

discussion was on process, unity and new imc lists.

points raised included:

* when a local imc collective stopped functioning as a collective 
almost completely, then because it was likely to be all new people 
(not necessarily) who helped pick it up again and return it to a new 
imc, it made sense for them to go through the new imc process again. 
we're seeing similar things with imc france group (which never went 
through the process cause they were one of the earlier imcs - that 
brings up the "audit" question).

*  imcs should not host non-imc projects on the server (i guess this 
happened and micah references it in the email i have linked above).

*  when an imc stops functioning in some active capacity, letting the 
larger collective/network know is a good iea.  imc-vermont did this 
and we took the city off the cities links and put it in another 
category.  i don't think we had much resolution on how to do this, 
but some ideas were discussed - a pending or inactive category so 
that the archives would still be available for folks interested.

others i can't remember.

sheri

At 11:34 PM -0400 5/5/02, carl0z wrote:
>Geoffrey,
>
>Geoffrey Young ha scritto
>>  hey folks
>>  whats with cleveland?
>>  they have current wire stories but features from 2 years ago?
>
>cleveland site has been almost unactive for a year and more :|
>cleveland collective is going through imc-process again ;))
>they're now having meetings and all :-)
>you may get some more info here
>http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-cleveland/2002-April/000338.html
>or browsing new-imc archives
>others (jay, bart, ...) may tell you more
>this is just what i found with a web search (their list archives are linked
>from indy.org/contact page)
>--
>c4rl0z
>
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