[IMC-Boston-Editorial] August General Mtg. Minutes: 2 upcoming events

[Sofia JarrinT]

August 16, 2006
  (sorry this is late. Please let me know if I forgot anything or if you  are interested in contributing to any of the projects below.)
  
  People present: Jonathan, Jamie, Angie and family, Sam, Sofia, I-Hsien 
  (I'm placing the events up on top, since that's a priority for now)
  
  * EVENTS:
  
  BOSTON DELEGATION TO PALESTINE: Angie and Jamie talked about their  interest in the BIMC sponsoring and organizing (w/endorsing orgs)  multiple speaker events for the Boston Delegation to Palestine; not  necessarily as a fundraiser but to stay active in the community. Angie  mentioned there are a few movies related to the trip that we could show  before/after the speakers. Target date: 1st or 2nd week in  October.  
  
  Action Items: Angie will talk with and report on BDP possible speaker  format; she will confirm lenght and availability of films. Jamie will  find out about space availability @ Harvard, Sofia @ Roxbury Community  College, I-Hsien @ MIT. Sam will look into printing costs for flyers.
  
  INDYMEDIA FILMSCREENING
  Amy Dalton from US Indymedia reached out to us to help them show 2  Indymedia films (one from Argentina and one about The Indypendent  newspaper in NY) in Boston for September 2nd.  Sofia will find a  space for it.  We need to print flyers and start the outreach for  the event... More on this soon!!  Possible fundraiser?
  
  * VOLUNTEER MANUAL: we distributed the BIMC Volunteer Manual to all  members present and requested feedback for next monthly meeting  (Sept).  This manual will be distributed among all new members.
  
  * EDITORIAL POLICIES: we talked about Editorial policies, now that we  have new editors in the group. We stressed our policy on  hiding/deleting " Hate posts; posts that explicitly express sexism,  racism, homophobia, or other forms of prejudice." To see a complete  list of current editorial policies go to:
  http://boston.indymedia.org/mod/info/display/policy/index.php
  
  Jonathan also expressed his concern about coverage of underrepresented  communities in East Boston, Chelsea, JP; the Students for a Dem.  Society workshops.  Sofia suggested we need to make better use of  the Dispatch list. 
  
  * WEB SITE: Jamie mentioned he had lunch with Dana and that Dana/Rob  have not abandoned the "new web site" idea.  Sofia mentioned about  posting it as a volunteer opportunity at Idealist.org (Jon was to come  up with a description). Someone suggested getting in touch  w/TechsChange.
  
  We discussed what we would like to see on a new site, including:
  - community accountability: as a new way of editing the site and in  addition to the Editors' ability to edit it.  Creating way of  community "censoring" of disruptive trolls from the site.
  - related to "flagging": a way to flag members as well as rating articles...
  - requiring a login for all Indymedia web users
  - improving our Calendar to make it more user-friendly and making it "the" place to post for the activist community
  
  To see the new web site (per last demo by Rob) go to:
  http://imc-dev.csail.mit.edu/
  
  * PRESS PASSES: We talked about getting press passes for new members  (see Volunteer Manual, 3-month introductory period required). The  current passes work great to go into many public events... Eventually  we'd like a very professional ID card.  Anyone interested in  getting a press pass, please contact Sofia.
  
  * BUSINESS CARDS: Jonathan volunteered to design b-cards for the BIMC,  which could be easily printed on a home printer w/card stock
  
  * POSTERS: They are READY... It's just a matter of printing them.   I-Hsien mentioned he has a friend who works on screen printing (cheaper  than printer) and will ask about details.  Sam can print smaller  flyers. Sofia to send poster design to all.
  
  * INDYMEDIA WORKSHOPS: Sofia talked about who Richmond IMC had expanded  greatly only by conducting small workshops around communities on how to  post to the site.  This had created about 5-6 decentralized IMCs  in Richmond, all working to develop the site.  Workshops talk to  continue for the Fall.
  
  
  
 		
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