[Imc-africa] Skype Meeting with World Social Forum (WSF) organizers

[Hannah Sassaman]

thanks much sphinx, and sorry to all for my absence.  looking forward to 
catching up next week.  this is a helpful update!


On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 01:20:44AM +0100, sphinx wrote:
> Hello all! I had the skype meeting today morning with Vita, Kipp and Dimitris-
> involved in the World Social Forum preparation.
>  Included as attachment is a summary brochure from Vita to give a general
> picture of how things look like with the WSF prep.
> 
> >From the look of the Brochure in my opinion we may have to put very few
> activities in on our agenda for January 20-WSF opening Ceremony and the January
> 25- WSF closing Ceremony.
> It was very productive meeting.
> 
> 1-In other for information about The Convergence Indymedia Centre to be included
> in the printed materials from the World Social Forum (WSF) so as to allow people
> coming to the WSF to get information about us, we will need to register in the
> World Social Forum(WSF) Process Space at www.wsfprocess.net . This is different
> from the registration we made at the WSF consultation. So I promised to register
> our project under activities happening around the forum, for us to be included
> in the WSF Calendar of activities. (I started the process already); The
> deadline for registering activities is 13th December, 2006.
> 
> 2-The World Social Forum will have an official WSF Media Center with Computers
> connected to the internet and anyone involved in any media related activity in
> the WSF space could get into the center and use the computers/internet.
> But only people who registered-paid the registration fees as indicated in the
> Brochure with their attendance passes will be allowed into the entire WSF
> ground.
> 
> Vita :  If you apply for Media Accreditation for the WSF Nairobi 2007 you will
> also have access to free internet connection, a computer pool to share with
> other communication and media representatives, you will receive first hand
> updates; there will also be information on how to coordinate interviews with
> some of the icons, personalities, artist that will come to the WSF Nairobi
> 2007. To fill the Media Accreditation Form please visit
> http://www.wsf2007.org/process/media/media
> 
> Vita: In the Spirit of the WSF, the Media Center will be also an open space and
> all communication workers are most welcome. The Media Accreditation is free
> but people have to register first to the event, as a delegation or
> individuals.  Registration of Individuals and Delegations is done in
> www.wsf2007.org By registering you will be free to participate, like
> everybody else, in any of the hundred of activities that have been
> registered and cover those that may be more interesting for you.
> 
> 
> 3-Kipp promised to look into our problem on licensing, so I?ll be sending him
> an email on exactly what the problem is.
> 
> 4-Kipp also did point out that the wireless zone will extend something like four
> kilometers from the WSF area thus it seems the wireless cover our new location.
> 
> 
> 5-You are all invited to participate in the next skype meeting on Wednesday Jan
> 13 at 6PM Nairobi (5PM Cape Town, 3PM London, 1PM Sao Paulo, 9AM Minneapolis
> time, 10AM Philadelphia). More info on skype is available at
> http://www.skype.com
> Because of BAND WIDTH problems in Nairobi only four (4) people can be speaking
> on Skype at the same time.
> So we agreed that we will combine the skype meeting with an IMC-Meeting on
> irc.indymedia.org on channel #africa.  In that way we?ll decide on the IRC
> who should at what time talk on the skype.
>  For example if some one has technical questions on issues from the WSF the
> Moderator will call Kipp in and the person with the tech question. The same
> will be with question on WSF organizing; Vita will be connected by the
> Moderator and the person who indicates they have an organizing question too
> will be connected.
> 
> OK that is enough for now.
> Talk to you on the IRC meeting on Friday and the skype-IRC meeting on Wednesday.
> Sphinx
> 
> 



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