[Imc-africa] NCDXF - Delegates names

Wed Nov 8 05:46:13 PST 2006

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

> 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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