[New-imc] PRAGUE NEW-IMC INTERNAL deadline FRI 4 OCT 2002 18:00 GMT

[boud]

Cze¶æ czechów, hi everyone at new-imc,
   Looks to me like our neighbours over the mountains are ready for
proposal to new-imc! i've set 4 oct 18:00 as the new-imc internal
review 3-day deadline. After that there'll be a week at imc-process.

Here are the URLs just for convenience.

membership criteria:
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/new-imc/2002-October/004060.html

mission statement:
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/new-imc/2002-October/004062.html

personal introductions:
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/new-imc/2002-October/004063.html

editorial policy (from membership criteria):
 
> E. EDITORIAL POLICY
> Our collective is small enough at present for our open meetings also to 
> function as editorial meetings. As we get larger, we will develop a 
> working editorial team. We always endeavour to post articles in Czech 
> and English. 
> So far we have not been troubled by postings from extremists, right-
> wing or otherwise. If in the future we are abused by posters who do not 
> respect our mission statement and the IMC principles of unity, we have 
> agreed to use the standard IMC policy of hiding posts whilst leaving 
> them accessible to scrutiny.


Czech people:
i have two suggestions, but i don't think they justify delaying the
application, you're clearly well enough organised and this is just
following through further on steps you've already started anyway.

(1) editorial policy - i think you should start looking around at the
*technical* details of how various IMCs handle editorial policy, and
at least start thinking of how you could do this in practice. It might
sound obvious right now, but when you get down to deciding where the
subtle borderline between unacceptable and acceptable posts lies in
practice, who decides, how you decide, how you double-check, and when
greens, anarchists, human rights activists all have somewhat differing
opinions, it could be messy. i also expect you might get tired of
double posts, empty posts, obvious spam, etc. In any case, while here
in IMC PL we have a quite detailed and consensed-upon editorial policy:

http://strony.wp.pl/wp/piotrm10/teksty/polityka.txt

it's only theoretical (so far :), and what's important is how the
editorial policy works in practice... 

You're free to copy, simplify, modify, etc and adopt our editorial
policy or any other editorial policy floating around the IMC network.

(2) there are some other global lists on which it would be good to
have someone as liaison:

imc-tech, imc-process, imc-finance & imc-proposals



pozdrawiam
boud



On Tue, 1 Oct 2002 edwardcz at volny.cz wrote:

> Hello 
> 
> I just filled out the newimc request form and now will be sending the 
> three documents (personal intro, mission statement, criteria) which we 
> hope will allow us to become a 'real' IMC again. 
> 
> Please let me know if you need any more information.
> 
> 
> Edward, on behalf of Prague IMC