[Imc-africa] irc meeting this friday(On agenda)

Sun Dec 10 20:49:49 PST 2006

What about a weekend day? Or a time that is evening on the East Coast of the 
US? I realize that the second suggestion could put us into night hours for 
those in Africa, though, which could be a problem.

Zoe

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>From: andy gunn <andy at prometheusradio.org>
>Reply-To: African IMCs and the imc project in 
>Africa<imc-africa at lists.indymedia.org>
>To: imc africa <imc-africa at lists.indymedia.org>
>Subject: Re: [Imc-africa] irc meeting this friday(On agenda)
>Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 20:29:27 -0500
>
>very few people attended the irc meeting this past friday.  no notes were 
>taken,
>as no decisions were made.  is there a time when it would work better for
>everyone to have another irc meeting?  time is getting short and we have a 
>lot
>of things to discuss.  perhaps someone else should make the call-out for 
>another
>meeting?
>
>thanks,
>-a
>
>
>sphinx wrote:
> > On the agenda of the IRC meeting. I hope we can get down to start trying
> > to pin
> > down exactly how we?ll deal with all these important issues in such away
> > that
> > those attending get as much of the skills as they wish to during the 
>28days
> > period of the Convergence Center Calendar:
> > 7th Jan to 3rd February. So we need discuss issues that are good for a
> > plenary
> > and what issue is for a hands-on-workshop and which day, which time for 
>the
> > maximum benefit.
> > As far as I can remember we can divide the content into the following 
>big
> > titles:
> >
> > 1-Radio:
> >   .Workshop on Radio construction
> >   .Production and Organizing
> > 2-Skills on Participative democratic practices/formal Consensus
> >  .Introduction to Formal Consensus (Intro)-C.T. Recommends for all.
> >  .Better Meeting Skills (BMS)-For people who want better facilitation
> > skills.
> >  .Training for Teachers (T4T) to teach Formal Consensus (FC)- For
> > People who
> > will like to teach Formal Consensus.
> >
> > 3-Indymedia
> > .theory/history/structure
> > .Practical Stuff: online tools, How to do interviews; write articles   
>etc
> > . Discussion on How effective indymedia can be in places where there is 
>no
> > access to computers, a solid communication infrastructure and the cheap
> > electronic gadgets that have been at the heart of indymedia growth and
> > development in the global north.  And the utility or lack thereof of the
> > Indymedia network in our countries and how to make indymedia more useful
> > in our
> > countries and communities.
> >
> > 4- Screen printing
> >
> > 5-Podasting and other software and hardware skills for media making.
> >
> >
> > So we will have 19 days together in Nairobi and some people will have
> > and extra
> > 9days in Kusumu for Maseno University- Station building and more 
>training.
> >
> >
> > My opinion is that we could break these 5 major topics down into
> > sub-topics that
> > can go into plenary and others that go into a strict workshop setting.
> >
> > For example the discussion on indymedia effectiveness in the global
> > South could
> > be a discussion for an evening plenary. With a projector one could
> > screen a few
> > films about indymedia (theory/history/structure) and have a discussion
> > on that
> > in an evening plenary too.
> >
> > We could take a couple of different sub-topics together in a day for the 
>19
> > days, and we also we need to allow for free slots where people can get
> > to hang
> > out instead of having workshops and trainings all the time.
> >
> > I hope in the days ahead that we?ll get to know the timetable of the WSF
> > itself and see things that we need consider when making our own
> > timetable. For
> > example the days when there are the great marches we do not want to be
> > seating
> > in a room having very serious workshops. Obviously we would want to
> > report on
> > marches and have an indymedia block to marching on them to and get the
> > experience of interacting with such a diverse crowd.
> >
> > OK! I stop there for now. What do you think??
> > Sphinx
>
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