[Boston-print] Boston Media Convergence, volunteers needed!

[Debbie Richards]

While I am not able to offer my any substantial time to organizing such a
convergence I support the idea and would like to offer a sort of session
proposal from Radical Reference www.radicalreference.info.  In NYC RadRef
did fact-checking and research workshops for NYC IMC and Boston RadRef
would like to offer a similar presentation to Boston IMC.  We're
librarians and archivists so it's what we do daily and we want to share
our skills with people working on the ground.  I can flesh details out
later but wanted to offer that suggestion.  And if the convergence doesn't
happen RadRef would still like to work with Boston IMC on soem level.
debbie

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Pete Stidman pstidman at yahoo.com

Sat nite at the Peace Concert I got to talking with Bill Cunningham from
the Bridge Newspaper.  Apparently there is interest in many of our small
papers around town in sharing resources, and in Bill's words (and my
thoughts) Indymedia is the natural convergence point for them all.  A
successful project such as this could really help us out on local
coverage!

Over the past two days I have been thinking it over and I think what we
should do is organize a conference here at the Unite Building sometime
this fall or early winter.  The sooner the better, but we should be
prepared with proposals and presentations.  We can get a really big room
here for four or five hours on a saturday.  But we need volunteers to pull
it off.  If we can get a few people to commit to organizing it, people
that are not me and Rob since we will be swamped with paper stuff.

Anybody game? This could be fairly easy to do (time consuming though) and
very beneficial to the collective.  Please step forward even if you dont
want to do it all or dont know how to do it.  You will have help!

-Pete


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