[Imc-africa] wsf.indymedia.org

[Peter van Heusden]

Hi Jay

After discussing things with other imcistas on IRC, I think it might be 
better to just support kenya.indymedia.org. That way we help build up a 
local IMC, instead of building a whole new site that will go dead soon 
after the WSF ends.

There is a slight problem there, in that IMC Kenya was accepted in 
February 2005 (look at the archives of new-imc and imc-process for that 
month), but they appear to not be in the cities list. Their sponsors 
were blicero and clara. I have been advised to contact 
imc-commwork at lists.indymedia.org about this problem, so I'll do that.

The kenya.indymedia.org site is live, but all content is posted in the 
newswire - maybe there is some technical assistance needed? I tried to 
speak to Grace about how things are with their access to email and the 
www site, but the phone line was just too bad to communicate. So, John, 
Oloo, maybe you can answer what is the current situation with the www site?

And the imc-kenya mailing list seems to contain only spam. Oloo, you're 
listed as the admin for this list - are you still checking it?

Aluta continua!
Peter


Jay wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
>   
>> Peter wrote:
>>     
>
>   
>> We would very much support budgetting for producing a print newsletter.
>> As to a WWW site - for Bamako we hosted (with varying degrees of
>> success) articles on two Indymedia sites - SA (though we had publishing
>> problems there during the WSF) and Marseilles, as well as some posts to
>> Global Indymedia. We have time, however, to propose a specific
>> wsf.indymedia.org, hosted by a group within the global Indymedia
>> network. Do people think this is a good idea?
>>     
>
> I haven't seen any response to this question on the imc-africa list yet, 
> though I may have missed it.
>
> If we start now we might be able to get the idea of opening a 
> "wsf.indymedia.org" site passed through the network, or 
> "wsf2007.indymedia.org" or "wsfNairobi.indymedia.org" to indicate more that 
> it's time-specific.  To make this proposal practical we'd probably have to 
> come to the network saying we have enough techies working on the project 
> that we could maintain it throughout the WSF.  Even if we get the domain 
> name but don't have people to get and keep it running we wouldn't be 
> accomplishing much.
>
> So, maybe first we should find if there are any techies, either through the 
> SA-IMC or elsewhere, who could form tech support.
>
> Jay 
>
>
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