[Imc-alternatives] Anyone keen Irc Chat this week?

[strypes]

Kia ora koutou

Just got back yesterday from 10 days of learning Vipassana meditation.
After an hour's meditation this morning, I am feeling a clarity I've
never experienced before. It's as simple and universal as observing
one's own respiration and bodily sensations, observing the truth of
one's own direct experience of reality (whatever that is ;). I highly
recommend it for anyone!

Anyway, my coding skills are not yet up to really contributing anything
to the code sprint this weekend, and chances are I'll either be at a
pagan festival in Waihi, or a permaculture hui in Te Tai Tokerau.
However, I'm sure there are heaps of non-geek tasks that need doing (ed
policy, content etc), so maybe we could make that the broad agenda for
the next chat?

So, if anyone is keen for another irc chat this week (Monday night US
time, Tuesday avo Aotearoa time), I can expect I can make it by 2:30pm
my time (10:30pm Philly time). I finished upgrading K9, my laptop, to
the latest version of Ubuntu (9.04) yesterday, so hopefully no technical
difficulties this time ;)

In fact, how about we schedule a geek chat every fortnight, and an
editorial chat every fortnight? If we use the same day/ time, and make
them alternate weeks, that means a chat every week for those who are
really keen (I'm looking at you Jay ;)

BTW My faith in the power of Indymedia has been thoroughly boosted. I
came out of 10 days of seclusion, and without having to look at any
mainstream media, I could go straight to our own news site and see that
on the day I got home, hundreds (maybe thousands) of people committed to
civil disobedience, and walked and cycled across the vehicle-only
Auckland Harbour Bridge:
http://indymedia.org.nz/newswire/display/77309/index.php

Kotahi te aroha ki a koutou
One love to you all
Strypes


Jay wrote:
> (hi imc-alternatives,
> I just sent this invitation out about the code sprint on May 30.  I'm
> not on imc-tech or imc-drupal-dev so it may wait there for a while to
> get approved, so if anyone else who can post on those lists would post
> it the message can go up faster.
> See you may 30,
> Jay)
> 
> ***
> Hello!
> 
> This is going out to people on the imc-alternatives list, to others who
> have participated in previous Alternatives site code sprints and to the
> imc-drupal-dev, imc-cms and other imc tech lists. 
> 
> The Indymedia Alternatives project is a currently forming
> globally-organized topic-based IMC that intends to be a "next
> generation" IMC site, both in its content and its technical
> architecture.  The Alternatives IMC will focus on positive steps people
> are taking around the world to create viable alternatives to the current
> social, political and economic structures.  It intends to not only be a
> hub for information about these Alternatives, but a networking hub for
> the community of those who are actively building them.
> 
> The Alternatives IMC group is working on a basic test site that will
> enable us to start posting exciting and inspiring content.  We're
> currently building a Drupal site, and are planning a code sprint for...
> 
> SATURDAY, MAY 30.  We are currently planning to meet from at least 11am
> to 3pm U.S. eastern time, which is 15:00 to 19:00 GMT. 
> 
> YOU ARE INVITED!!
> 
> Our goal for May 30 is to get the very basics of our test site at
> "http:// <http://alternativesimc.org>domain23.info" in better shape, and
> making strides toward getting our proposed design in place and with the
> newswire and features columns fully functional.  If you're curious what
> needs to be done, or can't make it on May 30 but would like to help, we
> have a task list at
> http://www.openplans.org/projects/imc-alternatives/tasks/tasklist/show/691.
> <http://www.openplans.org/projects/imc-alternatives/tasks/tasklist/show/691.%A0>
> 
> 
> Do you have Drupal skills?  Do you want to be part of this exciting
> project?  Please e-mail " imc-alternatives at lists.indymedia.org
> <mailto:imc-alternatives at lists.indymedia.org>" (cc
> "josh.marcus at gmail.com <mailto:josh.marcus at gmail.com> ") to check in.
> 
>  If you have any questions about the Alternatives project, e-mail "
> imc-alternatives at lists.indymedia.org
> <mailto:imc-alternatives at lists.indymedia.org>" (cc "
> jay at fundamentalchange.net <mailto:jay at fundamentalchange.net>") for an
> overview.  A wikipage with basic information about the project can be
> found at " http://www.openplans.org/projects/imc-alternatives".  The
> Alternatives IMC team communicates via the "
> imc-alternatives at lists.indymedia.org
> <mailto:imc-alternatives at lists.indymedia.org>" list.
> 
> See you on May 30!
> 
> Jay
> 
> 
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