[Imc-africa] NCDXF - Delegates names

Zoe Sullivan zoe_sullivan at hotmail.com
Wed Nov 8 06:44:43 PST 2006 

Hi Ange,

I can edit whatever you write up.

Zoe

We are the ones we have waited for.



>From: ange at riseup.net
>Reply-To: African IMCs and the imc project in 
>Africa<imc-africa at lists.indymedia.org>
>To: "African IMCs and the imc project in 
>Africa"<imc-africa at lists.indymedia.org>
>Subject: Re: [Imc-africa] NCDXF - Delegates names
>Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 05:46:13 -0800 (PST)
>
>
>hi hannah! thank u so much for the answer
>
>1. Zoe is going to make a phonecall to them to know about this pendencies.
>it is much better if we know in prior about their possibilities of founding
>
>2. im sure prometheus and radiolivre are very succefull projects. do you
>think we have ways of show our videos to them?
>We have some videos of Radio Muda in enlgish too.
>
>My only matter is to write about our radio projects in english and be
>understandable- so i can write than u all correct me?
>
>3. thanks for the data
>
>
>hugs
>
>
>ange
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> > hey folks, ange and zoe in particular (is it the two of you spearheading
> > the funding request for outside-of-africa delegates to the NCDXF?)
> >
> > here are some thoughts on:
> > 1)  the NCDX foundation and 'callsign'
> >
> > 2)  evidence of success of the radio model we're going to be pursuing
> > together
> >
> > 3)  some biographies of andy gunn and hannah sassaman, the prometheus
> > organizers who will be travelling to kenya to help and learn with all of
> > you!
> >
> > 1) the NCDX foundation.  in this grant request, callsign likely means --
> > what radio station do you work with?  zoe sullivan just wrote a great
> > summary.
> >
> > but i also think that the northern california DX foundation was founded
> > by a ham -- also known as amateur -- radio operator.  ham radio
> > operators broadcast their content on a reserved radio band, and they do
> > essential work in connecting communities to each other when corporate
> > media infrastructure fails, or when communities are seperated from other
> > forms of media infrastructure.
> >
> > ham radio operators each have a unique -callsign- -- meaning a series of
> > numbers and letters that they use to identify themselves when they are
> > communicating over the ham radio airwaves, locally or around the world.
> > (ham radio signals can travel very far, especially at night).
> >
> > i think it's great that this foundation supports hams, but i think it
> > might be worth a phonecall to the group, as the proposal we are putting
> > in to them is not associated at all with ham radio -- amateur radio as
> > they see it -- but with FM community radio.  i'd hope that they'd be
> > interested in providing funding even without the connection to ham
> > radio, but it's worth making the connection to be sure that we don't
> > spend too much time on the funding request if it isn't likely to be
> > supported because of the kind of radio technology the IMC and Maseno
> > want to use.  let me know your thoughts on this.
> >
> > 2) evidence/experience of success.  a second point -- if it is
> > worthwhile to pursue this grant, here are some thoughts on the meaing of
> > this paragraph you posted:
> >
> >> "contesting experience and any other information you think would be
> >> helpful to the NCDXF in assessing the likelihood of success of the
> >> operation."
> >
> > seems to mean -- can you send any information that can help to provide
> > evidence that the project you are undertaking will be successful.  in
> > the case of the radio station building projects, prometheus has a number
> > of films about stations we've built, including one in tanzania, that
> > show the strength of the stations and the organizing model that we're
> > going to be pursuing together.  we can send those along to the
> > foundation, or write short paragraphs describing those projects and
> > their strengths and successes.
> >
> > 3) biographies of prometheus organizers.  in terms of bios, here are
> > some bios from me and andy, who are the prometheus technicians who will
> > be coming to kenya.  siyade gemechisa is about to go on another trip to
> > jordan and won't be coming to kenya.
> >
> > thanks so much ange, zoe, and all,
> > hannah s.
> > prometheusradioproject
> >
> > Andrew Gunn is the Technical Director of the Prometheus Radio Project.
> > He has helped to build a number of low power radio stations, and
> > provided advice to hundreds.  He has a background in Electrical
> > Engineering, Radio Frequency (RF) Engineering and Audio Engineering.  He
> > has organised the station construction for several radio barnraisings in
> > communities around the United States.  He holds a Bachelor's of Science
> > in Computer Engineering from Columbia University in the City of New
> > York.
> >
> > Other trainer:  Hannah Sassaman is the Program Director of the
> > Prometheus Radio Project.  She has coordinated logistics, popular
> > education workshops, and production activities for several radio
> > barnraiisngs in communities across the United States.  She will be
> > assisting Andy with the logistics and community participation in the
> > technical building of the radio stations, as well as helping to
> > facilitate participation in the other workshops.  Hannah has coordinated
> > major advocacy events around the United States, with native communities
> > in South Dakota, Latino and Black communities in San Antonio, and in
> > many other communities.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 03:02:45PM -0800, ange at riseup.net wrote:
> >> hi list!!
> >>
> >> i really need to know details about the participation of non-african
> >> delegates to send our request.
> >>
> >> what means
> >>
> >> "name, callsign"
> >> (if someone could explain me what CALLSIGN means, couse i couldnt find
> >> translation to the portuguese)
> >> "contesting experience and any other information you think would be
> >> helpful to the NCDXF in assessing the likelihood of success of the
> >> operation. "
> >>
> >> it would be usefull to include projects you already participate.
> >> some of you already have a little description, but we need complete 
>name
> >> and callsign stuff.
> >>
> >> (if you dont want to publish your name, send to my personal mail)
> >>
> >>
> >>                    --hugs--ange
> >> the names are ::
> >>
> >>     *Hannah(f) and Siyade(f) from Prometheus radio will run workshops 
>on
> >> building and operating a Low Powered FM and can food box antennas
> >> (contennas)
> >>
> >>     *C.T. Butler(f) co-founder of FoodNotBombs? is coming to do
> >> workshops
> >> on non-violent social change and consensus >organizing
> >>
> >>     *Stephanie(f) in Berlin is collecting equipment around Europe for
> >> the
> >> Convergence IMC
> >>
> >>     *Glenda(f)- doing mobilization for the event in Switzerland and to
> >> run
> >> women empowerment workshops
> >>
> >>     * Sphinx-(m) IMC-Ambazonia-USA - To run workshops on software used
> >> by
> >> the indymedia network, the nuts and bolds of indymedia from new imc
> >> process to indymedia to IMC-Satellite
> >>
> >>     * Angela meili (f) and Rafael diniz (m) IMC Brazil will run
> >> workshops
> >> on audio streaming and radio, and Low Powered TV stations.
> >>
> >>     * Fabian (m)-IMC-Sheffield ?UK is doing much of the organizing and
> >> fundraising. Will run workshops on video edit, indymedia story, open
> >> publishing
> >>
> >>    * Farhana Khan (m)-Bangladesh to share youth organizing skills
> >>
> >>     * Janmaat-(m) UK to run workshops on interview techniques et al and
> >> workshops on empowering participants to set up their own low-cost
> >> screen-print workshop
> >>
> >>     * Bonzai-(m) Ascii- Tech volunteer to do tech support for the 
>events
> >>
> >>     * Zoe will share skills on producing podcasts and some free 
>software
> >> that can be used for this
> >>
> >>     * Soodhakur Ramlallah Mauritian Correspondent of the African Press
> >> Agency (APA) and Assistant Editor Mauritius Times is a volunteers from
> >> Mauritius
> >>
> >>     * John Bwakali
> >>
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> >
> > --
> > -----
> >
> > hannah sassaman
> > prometheusradioproject
> >
> > building radio stations = awesome
> > http://www.prometheusradio.org
> > 215-727-9620
> >
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