[Imc-alternatives] lists for outreach/pga

[Jay]

Hi Alisa,

This is great!

At 1/31/2006, you wrote:
>Hello everyone,
>
>There was a small pga chat online today, with just a few people, where I
>mentioned the prospects of the new IMC. Their response (after a long scream
>of euphoria...'ahhhhhhh', and some virtual and intergalactic brow-raising)
>was that the best thing to do would be to send a call-out to the lists.
>Since most people are highly involved in local projects, it is not likely
>you will be flooded with responses. But, if you are still cautious in making
>such a wide-spread appeal, I can try to select out of all of them, a smaller
>quantity of lists to begin with, and on the side, a small list of emails of
>people I personally know, who would also, well,...scream for joy, as well as
>devote time to the editorial process.
>
>Does that sound ok?

I like the idea of selecting some lists and some individuals to talk with 
first, then seeing what kind of response there is.   Word will probably 
spread around pretty quickly, which is fine.  I've started to sort of 
circulate information about the project among people in Philadelphia and a 
couple of friends elsewhere but I haven't sat down to ask anyone particular 
to join yet, which I plan to do soon.

I'm not that worried about that big an onslaught of volunteers -- if that 
were our only problem . . . !   I just know we're still honing in on the 
character of the project, still trying to figure out what code we're going 
to use, etc., and think, strategically, we're not quite ready for a 
super-public call out.  But we are definitely ready to get some helpers in 
the content working group.

Thanks, Alisa, for your enthusiasm!  Let people know they can join the 
e-mail list (through http://lists.indymedia.org) and ask them to send a 
little introduction.  If we get enough helpers and we actually start to do 
work, maybe someday we'll open an imc-alternatives-editorial list.

Jay


>Best,
>Alisa.
>
>
>
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