[Imc-africa] by Friday: almost ready to send draft to send to imc-finance

sphinx sphinx at indymedia.org
Fri Nov 3 00:28:12 PST 2006 

Hi all! I've been trying for most of the beginning of the week to call X-Y.
Unfortunately it seems the number on their site is down. I hope to again fax
them the application we sent by mail.
Jay! I agree that we pull off the computer cost from the IMC-Finance
application. Hopefully Chema and the Swiss group will be able to provide us
with enough computers and may be X-Y can accept our application.
On the question of IMC-finance paying for equipment that would be 
handed out to
Maseno-Uni, I think that will definitely be a serious question in imc-finance.
Yet, the equipment is not being or will NOT be given to Maseno as a 
present. It
simply will be installed Maseno premises for use by Maseno university students
AND community radio activists and of course indymedia folks. Hope John and
Judith get that in their Memorandum.

And I wish to hope that the IMC-Kenya people will see this as a chance to
really work on building their IMC, both in Kusumu and in Nairobi. In so doing
the question of indymedia finance paying for equipment that ends not 
exactly in
the hands of indymedia people will get off the table since IMC Kenya is indeed
the link between the radio and global indymedia network. I'm hoping that IMC
Kenya people will be organized enough to have a space also in Nairobi 
after the
forum, where their imc can function. So that, the computers and other 
equipment
from the event for desktop publishing and others can stay in Nairobi at the
indymedia space while the radio goes to Kusumu-Maseno.
Bye for now
Sphinx


I've aloso not been lucky enough to get hold of anyone from UC-IMC.


Quoting ange at riseup.net:

> hi jay and everyone
>
> thanks for the explanations. i was a kind of lost in the process of raise.
> so we have 3 things to do
>
> 1-send imc-finance application
> 2-XminusY
> 2-imc-uk
>
> imcfinance: i dont know if they have much money - you're right - but we
> could ask them an estimative about how much $ we should ask for.
>
>
> radio station = are we asking money for same things in finance and minus?
> and if we get both? is a problem in using it for different purposes?
>
>
> did u write already the text for finance?
> im online, so sent to me i can help on
>
> and about uc-imc - does anyone already meet personaly people there? but
> what people say is that they are a kind of formals - am i right? so we can
> send this proposal, changing only the budgetdraft:
>
> https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/WorldSocialForum2007ConvergenceIMCAndRadioProjectNairobiKenyaFundingProposal
>
>
>
> keep talking
>
>
> ange
>
>> Hi Sphinx, John, Ange, Peter, everyone,
>>
>> I'd like to finish off this application for funding to imc-fiance and
>> absolutely have it out by Friday.  If that happens, we should be able
>> to get a response by the end of November.
>>
>> Here are some important questions:
>>
>> 1) Who will send it:
>> John, do you think you or someone from imc-kenya would be able to
>> send the proposal along to the imc-finance working group?  Please
>> feel no pressure to do it if it will add stress to your already very
>> stressful life. :)  Either imc-CapeTown or one of us could send it
>> indivudally -- I don't think who sends it matters very much.  But, if
>> imc-kenya could send it, that would be great.
>>
>> I think time is getting short, so if I don't hear any other
>> suggestions by Friday, and if we've worked out all the details, if
>> it's okay with everyone I'll just send it along.
>>
>> 2) How much will we ask for:
>> Looking at the parts list for the radio station (about $3000) and the
>> computers for the radio station (about $3000) plus travel expenses
>> for people who can put the radio station together (about $2500?) that
>> starts becoming a whole lot of money, and I think too much to ask
>> from imc-finance.  My instinct tells me that if we ask for something
>> under $5000 -- let's say, $4000 -- we will have a much easier time of
>> getting the costs approved than if we ask for everything.
>>
>> Sphinx and others, what are the updates on other funding
>> venues?  We're asking XminusY for money for the radio station and
>> computers too, right?  And we're asking UC-IMC to pay for tickets for
>> the radio techies?  We should be able to bring in a few hundred
>> dollars from local IMC fundraisers but not huge amounts.
>>
>> My sense is that we should ask IMC-finance for $4000, hope to have
>> that in hand and work to get money from other foundations, but I'm
>> sure there are other vaild thoughts and opinions.
>>
>> Thoughts?  Again, I'd like to get this out to imc-finance by Friday
>> so we can have time before the end of November to get the money approved.
>>
>> Jay
>>
>>
>> At 10/30/2006, sphinx wrote:
>>> Hi Jay! You forget to include the cost of one very important piece in the
>>> equipment needed to run the station. That is the computers to run
>>> automations
>>> and for audio editing. Here are the specs as provided by Prometheus
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  +At least three computers with good soundcards.
>>>
>>>  -3CPU =3($800)= $2400
>>>
>>>  -3 CRT Monitors 17= 3(14.99)=$344.97
>>>
>>>  -3 Delta 44 professional 4in/4 out audio card= $199.95
>>>
>>> Total =2,944.92
>>>
>>> Sphinx
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Quoting Jay <idiot at jaysand.com>:
>>>
>>>> Hi imc-africa,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks to Fabian, Sphinx and all for working so hard to bring in that
>>>> grant!  Now that we have the basics of the infrastructure for the IMC
>>>> in place we have to raise money for equipment and other essentials.
>>>>
>>>> The time has come to send our proposal to the imc-finance working
>>>> group.  I have a draft of what I think we should send them.  Please
>>>> send comments.  Does $3000 sound like the right amount to ask
>>>> for?  That is the amount we need to pay for the radio equipment.  I
>>>> know sphinx is applying for grants from other foundations to cover
>>>> radio equipment and computers, but we certainly can't count on them
>>>> coming through.
>>>>
>>>> If I haven't heard any suggestions from this list by the beginning of
>>>> the week, and/or if I haven't heard from Peter from imc-sa or anyone
>>>> else from Africa who has experience with the imc-finance group and
>>>> would like to post the proposal, I'll happily post it myself and
>>>> follow it through the process.
>>>>
>>>> Draft:
>>>>
>>>> SUMMARY:
>>>> Request from the imc-africa working group to imc-finance for funds to
>>>> support an international IMC to be open from January 13 to January
>>>> 27, 2007 in Nairobi, Kenya, providing independent media coverage
>>>> of  the World Social Forum (taking place from January 20-25).  The
>>>> WSF IMC in Naoribi will be an essential place for African and
>>>> international independent media activists to meet, attending skill
>>>> shares and workshops about issues relating to independent media that
>>>> will enable them to create or better support independent media
>>>> institutions in their home countries.  Participants will also build a
>>>> functioning low power radio station that will remain in Kenya after
>>>> the World Social Forum ends.
>>>>
>>>> DETAILS:
>>>> For the last several months, independent media makers and Indymedia
>>>> organizers in Kenya, throughout Africa and
>>>> around the world have been working together, both on-line and in
>>>> face-to-face meetings, on a project to build a temporary independent
>>>> media center (IMC) in Nairobi, Kenya, during the January '07 World
>>>> Social
>>>> Forum.  Discussions have mainly taken place on the
>>>> "imc-africa at lists.indymedia.org" list, though there have also been
>>>> conference calls and IRC chats.  Indymedia activists from Africa,
>>>> Europe, North America and South America have been actively
>>>> participating. in this organizing.
>>>>
>>>> This "convergence-based" IMC will provide text-based, audio, and
>>>> (potentially) video coverage of the World Social Forum, both on-line
>>>> and through a local low-power radio station, enabling the
>>>> participants to create independent media coverage of the WSF during
>>>> the forum.  Thousands of organizers will be coming to the World
>>>> Social Forum from around the globe, especially from Africa; this IMC
>>>> will empower activists (especially those in Africa) to create
>>>> effective independent media institutions in their countries.  Also,
>>>> all the equipment purchased for this IMC will
>>>> remain in Kenya for use by other Kenyan independent media projects.
>>>>
>>>> FINANCIAL NEEDS:
>>>> We are asking imc-finance for $3000 to pay for necessary equipment
>>>> and infrastructure for the IMC.  Equipment needs include parts for
>>>> the radio station (a detailed list can be provided upon request) as
>>>> well as money for computers and other logistics for the
>>>> imc-convergence space.  (All equipment bought will continue to be
>>>> available to the Kenyan independent media projects after the WSF.)
>>>>
>>>> We are hoping to raise all necessary funds by November 30, 2006.
>>>>
>>>> KEY ORGANIZERS/SUPPORTERS:
>>>> -- the IMC-Africa working group, an Indymedia working group composed of
>>>> African Indymedia activists and supporters from around the
>>>> world.  (imc-africa at lists.indymedia.org)
>>>>
>>>> -- the Kenya-IMC group has been in existance since 2004 after sending
>>>> several
>>>> representatives to the African Indymedia conference in Dakar,
>>>> Senegal.  The Kenya IMC has passed through most stages of the new-imc
>>>> process.  The project hopes to use kenya.indymedia.org as its primary
>>>> site and to strengthen the Kenya IMC with skill shares to enable it
>>>> to be sustainable.
>>>>
>>>> -- Prometheus Radio Project (http://www.prometheusradio.org), an
>>>> organization that supports and builds low-power-radio stations around
>>>> the
>>>> world, will provide technical advice and assistance for a low power
>>>> radio
>>>> station to be built in Nairobi for the duration of the WSF (with
>>>> equipment
>>>> to remain in Kenya for use by future low power radio initiatives.
>>>>
>>>> -- students and faculty from Kenya's Maseno University, who will
>>>> participate in ongoing independent media projects after the WSF is over.
>>>>
>>>> The Nairobi IMC will feature many independent media making workshops and
>>>> skill-shares, including trainings in formal consensus and sessions, led
>>>> by African independent media makers, on how to build independent media
>>>> institutions in Africa.  Technicians from the Prometheus Radio Project
>>>> plan to hold hands-on trainings and workshops, building a low power
>>>> radio station with participants of the World Social Forum and the IMC
>>>> convergence.  Prometheus Radio will work after the World Social Forum
>>>> with students from Maseno University to build a permanent low-power
>>>> radio station on their campus.
>>>>
>>>> CONTACT:
>>>> For more information about this proposal, please contact Jay from the
>>>> Philadelphia IMC,
>>>> jay at fundamentalchange.net.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your consideration!
>>>> Jay
>>>>
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