[Imc-alternatives] [imc-cms] Possible site launch target, and defence of Indymedia

[Jay]

Hi Toya and imc-cms (I'll cc imc-alternatives too),

Thanks for the update!

Sorry we won't be able to get an Alternatives project on the new 
imc-cms together by December, but I understand that everyone is scattered.

I don't know if you saw the messages, but while we're waiting for the 
imc-cms process to come together the Alternatives group has decided 
to put up a temporary site on the Axxs server using Drupal.  We're 
going to use that site as a place to put content and work out 
editorial and other issues in the short term.  We're still completely 
into putting together our permanent site using the new global 
indymedia archtecture, we just got itchy to work on something 
practical in the meantime.

The site is at http://alternativesimc.org and there's nothing there 
yet, but we're inching forward on tech and editorial issues.

>Is there stilll need on working to pass the layout to xhtml/css?
>Let me know I could give you guys a hand on that.

Nick (nick at artclash.com) is trying to find the time to apply the 
design to the alternativesimc.org site.  I'm sure he'd absolutely 
love a hand with getting the layout into something that could work 
for that and a future more permanent site.

good!
Jay




Nick (nick at artclash.com) is working on



At 10/29/2008, toya wrote:
>Hi jay,
>Sorry for the delay on answering this.
>We wont have anything working for december. What have happened is that right
>after techmeet in rio there was another important event in europe, many
>people who were on techmeet went to europe to attend it, and most of them are
>still travelling around europe meeting other collectives etc.
>Therefore we still havent done our meeting to put all that we presented in
>Rio in a single place to send it out to the network. We already have a POC,
>still needs some work to be doing on it but the parts are done just need
>to integrate them.
>
>Another problem we had in the mean time was that our email list for techmeet
>was working on a server that is down for the past 2/3 months. Then we started
>a new list in another server - but that server was having problems 
>with mailman
>so another period of time just working on fixing it.
>The good news is that the list is working!
>http://mail.linefeed.org/lists/listinfo/techmeet
>
>And another good news is that people are comming back home after travelling
>in Europe :)
>
>So things are moving but not as fast as we would like it to.
>I have a question though, what about the design for imc alternatives?
>Is there stilll need on working to pass the layout to xhtml/css?
>Let me know I could give you guys a hand on that.
>
>Bye,
>toya
>
>
>
>
>Em Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 02:04:38PM -0400, Jay escreveu:
> > Strypey (and cc'd to imc-cms about the imc-alternatives site),
> >
> > At 9/23/2008, you wrote:
> > >Kia ora koutou
> > >
> > >I was wondering if you were all aware of the new initiative being
> > >launched by the Zapatistas, as a globalization of their 'Other
> > >Campaign'? As usual Marcos' prose is moving, and inclusive, and
> > >substance seems very much in tune with our work on the Alternatives IMC.
> > >
> > >"In Mexico and on the five continents we have found what we intuited
> > >when we began our sixth step: there is another world, there is 
> another path.
> > >
> > >If the catastrophe that is coming can be avoided and humanity is to have
> > >another opportunity, it will because these others, below and to the
> > >left, not only resist, but are already drawing the profile of something
> > >else.
> > >
> > >Something different than what is occurring above."
> > >
> > >The full text of the communique about the 'First Global Festival of
> > >Dignified Rage' can be found here:
> > >http://indymedia.org.nz/newswire/display/76'081/index.php
> > >
> > >The proposed dates are December, and January. Is it too ambitious to aim
> > >to have a working site up in time for a tie-in? After all, "drawing the
> > >profile" of "another path" is exactly what the Alt-IMC is about!
> >
> > This would be an amazing thing!  I have no idea if December is
> > realistic.  I'm cc'ing this to the imc-cms list.  Imc-CMS, do you
> > have a timeline for the rollout of the new-fangled infrastructure?
> >
> > Jay
> >
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