[imc-auckland-video] Proposal to pay for transcribing

[Geraldene Peters]

Hey all
Back from wgtn - together with Blair the intrepid, personable anarchist got
some good anti-racism march footage and interviews  which people down there
are  cutting up - hopefully in time for a snippet to show in december
screenings.

Also, Abi gave me her 55 minute documentary "Te Whanau o Aotearoa", which I
can dub off and pass around for programming consideration

Oceania indymedia newsreal 3 will be produced in January next year - be good
if we could include a 10 minute Voters Voice clip in that

I need to focus on university until the thesis is done - we've got a
template though for the study guide and distribution which I can aim to help
out with in feb/march.

Re. Transcript payments...
I'm a bit ambivalent - can see the incentivising logic of it, but as one of
the people who have done a lot of voluntary work for nothing over the years
(and it could readily be argued my student loan would be a lot less
otherwise), I'm not sure why people would want to be paid.
Perhaps this is something we can address with the next project-if there's
still felt to be the need?


Chloe, I thought any money you contributed to "Plan B Peace" was last-resort
but welcome bridging finance and it had all been paid back - if not, then I
reckon it needs to be - perhaps if you could map out how much that is then
we know where we are with it all.

I've been keeping  records of Whose News cost and expenditure, and over the
next couple of weeks I'll try to send an update of where we're at.  Orders
are still slowly trickling in - it's looking as though documentary money
will cover at least another two such projects

More soon, 
G


On 10/25/04 11:01 AM, "Chloe Heffernan" <chloeheffernan at xtra.co.nz> wrote:

> Hmmmmmmmm
> I'm not totally opposed
> I'll have a look at the finances
> Immediately I think well hell I've done so much for Indymedia and never been
> paid - in fact the reverse - I've paid out!
> I also think the money would be better spent on the final marketing of the
> doco (which costs a lot) - I don't think we'll re-coop costs in the same way
> as we did with whose news through sales
> I won't obstruct it if everyone else agrees.
> Chloe
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: imc-auckland-video-bounces at lists.indymedia.org
> [mailto:imc-auckland-video-bounces at lists.indymedia.org] On Behalf Of Kim
> Mazur 
> Sent: Friday, 22 October 2004 5:53 p.m.
> To: greenmps.auckland at greens.org.nz; 'Auckland Indymedia video list'
> Subject: [imc-auckland-video] Proposal to pay for transcribing
> 
> Hi, at the risk of this being an idea that gets shot down, I still need
> to put the idea forward as one way of trying to make some advances on
> getting our transcribing done in due time.
> 
> The idea is pay people $20 a tape as a gesture of thanks for the amount
> of time as an incentive to get through the many tapes that we have.
> 
> I'm not sure how we would want this to apply to those of us who have
> already been issued with tapes. People can choose to forfeit the $20 as
> a donation to Indymedia.
> I know this also raises issues about what that means if we pay some
> "thank you" money for some jobs and not others and whether this fits in
> with Indymedia ethos. We can discuss that too but I see this as a very
> distinct definable job that can be measured. It does take about one hour
> to transcribe ten minutes.
> 
> I calculate that we have about 20 tapes that still need transcribing. At
> $20 each that is $400 - don't want to ask for that much, perhaps half
> that to fund the transcribing of about ten tapes. It would cost
> megabucks if we had it done professionally.
> 
> I need to know if people are happy for me to put this proposal to the
> wider Indymedia group for dissent by a certain date.
> 
> Especially if we are really going to get this done by the end of the
> year. Chloe, is there any money in the $1,000 grant left that could be
> put towards this?
> 
> It seems to me we have bi-monthly fundraisers which a lot of us put time
> and effort into organising but we aren't exactly using the collected
> funds for very much except venue hire, our server internet charges and a
> few nominal items.
> 
> It would be nice if the wider Indymedia account could contribute to the
> doco if we asked.
> 
> Feedback from others sought, thanks, Kim
> 
> 
> 
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