[Imc-alternatives] TECHMEET 2008 - Virtual Meeting Update

[Jay]

Strypey,

At 9/8/2008, you wrote:
>Kia ora koutou So I attempted to attend the 
>virtual meeting, although it proved a bit tricky 
>since I couldn't get the stream working, and had 
>trouble figuring out what was going on ;) 
>However, at one point I got on Skype and spoke 
>to the proposal for the techs to work with us to 
>put the imc-alt together as a sandbox for the 
>new cms. It was my first time web conferencing, 
>and I was quite nervous, talking to a room full 
>of people I've never met, without even a name + 
>place-of-origin round to break the ice! I pretty 
>much worked off Jay's proposal (thanks heaps for 
>putting that together bro, hope you managed to 
>escape the weather ok), briefly summing up the 
>mission, and the three functional aspects of our 
>proposed site. I also emphasized the point that 
>our development process has been intentionally 
>code agnostic for the last few months. I added 
>that unlike existing imcs, we don't have an 
>existing database to migrate (which is always a 
>headache when changing an imc from one codebase 
>to another), and we won't complain if the site 
>is a bit quirky while the bugs are being worked 
>out of the new system - we'll just be thrilled 
>to have a site up! It was late in the day for 
>people in Rio (they had to pack out immediately 
>after I spoke), but there seemed to be some 
>enthusiasm for the proposal. Guess we'll see 
>what happens. Enthused and excited, Strypes

I'm so happy you made it to the virtual meeting 
and very glad you're enthused and 
excited!  Sounds like we were throwing our 
proposal out into the midst of tons of other 
things, so I understand how we wouldn't be top 
priority, but did you get a sense of how we may 
be able to nudge forth a decision and perhaps get 
things in motion?  I guess we should be kind and 
give everyone a few days to recover from the 
techmeet extravaganza before expecting anyone to focus.

Ryan, where would we be able to find notes or 
reports from the weekend?  Is there any e-mail 
list in particular where techmeeters are going to 
be communicating?  Imc-Cms?  Imc-Tech?

a bit wet after this weekend but not flooded by hannah,
Jay




>ryan wrote: > TECHMEET 2008 -- RIO DE JANEIRO -- 
>VIRTUAL MEETING > 
>==================================================  
> > > The final decision has been made about the 
>virtual meeting for Techmeet > 2008. PLEASE 
>FORWARD FAR AND WIDE! > > Here is the relevant 
>information: > > HOW TO PARTICIPATE > 
>------------------ > WHEN: >     Saturday, 6 
>September 2008 >     15:30 - Rio de 
>Janeiro >     11:30 - San Francisco >     19:30 
>- London >     18:30 - GMT/UTC > > 
>HOW: >     [1] Join #techmeet at 
>irc.indymedia.org >     [2] Start watching the 
>video stream at > 
>rtsp://nettlau.indymedia.org/techmeet.sdp > 
>[3] Listen, talk in the channel, or stream 
>yourself and we'll > watch/listen to you! We 
>will talk about issues raised by people in the > 
>channel and hold a virtual, global 
>conversation > > > MORE INFORMATION > 
>---------------- > > Techmeet 2008 Website - > 
>http://www.techmeet.org/ > > Techmeet 2008 
>Agenda - > 
>http://www.techmeet.org/txt/Techmeet2008Agenda >  
> > Mat's Techmeet Accessories ($50 each!) - > 
>http://tinyurl.com/techmeet > > > 
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