[Cmi-toscana] documenti per il porcess - mission statement

[killerina]

Allora, rifo' la carrellata dei documenti per il process.
Comincio con il mission statement integrato con il "come si diventa admin e 
come si fa indy" venuti fuori dall'ultimo meeting.
io direi che ci diamo una dead line, tipo martedi' (cosi' chi ha connessione 
solo di mattina ci puo' dare un occhio lunedi'), e poi ri-chiamiamo in causa 
joe.
ok? ok!

besos
killera

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cmi-toscana (centro media indipendente - toscana)

"cmi-toscana" is a project of a group of persons who share the basic 
principles
and the methods of Indymedia Network. 

The main "cmi-toscana" purposes are, rated by importance:

1) give to voiceless individuals and groups a media to let them be able 
to report directely news and stories censored, hidened or distorted by 
mainstream media; 

2) give to voiceless individuals and groups the technical knowledge to create 
their own independent media that could become part of cmi-toscana;

3) report, even individually, news and stories censored, hidened or distorted 
by mainstream media;

4) operate as an archive to find documents otherwise quickly overflowed by
mainsream media flow

Those purposes will be achieved mainly by a web site management that will be 
a collector of informations and (in)formative situations organized in real 
life.

The management of this project will be done in an assembly way using 
electronic communication tools (mailing lists, irc, instant
messaging, etc...) as well by means of periodical meetings opened to
all the interested people.

The structure of the group is configured in an horizontal
way and the decision making method used will be
similar to the “consensus method”, in other words decisions will be
taken unanimously and/or without explicit and motived vetoes.

Due to the mailing lists technical and relational characteristics, we
consider the active participation an obligation that everyone
voluntarily accept as long as subscribes to the mailing list. The
list will have public archives to everyone via web.

There are many levels of activism related to Indymedia Toscana. The first one 
consist in publishing on the web site news and articles telling stories that
otherwise would be ignored. To partecipate more actively, people should agree
with this Mission Statement and with the policy, subscribe the mailing list, 
partecipate in the web site management and to the meetings organized.

Someone who would become admin of the site should, beside all the things
written above, have working in the list for a period, have partecipated in a 
live meeting and attempted a workshop on how to manage the web site.

All admins are expected to apply the policy consensually stated by the 
activists.

The web site would be totally autonomous as well as a part of
an italian geographic network.

The web site will be divided in various parts that will at least
include: an informative area mainly cured by the management group, an
agenda and a newswire both based on open publishing. On the web pages ther 
will be the list of the other nodes of the global Indymedia network.

The web server will be hosted outside Italy and will be
shared with other African IMCs. The server’s cost will be divided
between Toscana-imc and Switzerland-imc, while the technical
management will be shared between all the imcs hosted on the server
and coordinated through a specific mailing list.
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