[Imc-communication] COLUMBUS OHIO, US (decision deadline 8-DEC, 20:00 GMT)

[L.Ross]

Hello All,
since there have been no objections to the columbus
new-imc I have passed along the information/new
process form to imc-process and imc-communication to
continue the steps to entering the IMC Network.

Thank you
elle ross

>Sent by sponser: Cleveland IMC
>
>NEW IMC Final Draft Application
>The Columbus, Ohio, USA IMC wants to join the
>Indymedia network so that we can provide coverage of
>local events and provide central Ohioans with a site
>to report news that is important to them in the
>moment, as well as connect people to broader national
>and international issues they may not have equal
>access to.
>
>The CBUS IMC has a working web site:
>http://www.cbusimc.org.
>
>IMC MEMBERSHIP CRITERIA - DRAFT Each IMC and Global
>Working Group is expected to:
>
>a. Agree in spirit to the NIMC MissionStatement and
>PrinciplesOfUnity,
>Yes
>
>b. Have a committed membership substantial enough to
>sustain a functional IMC:
>Yes We currently have 42 members of our e-mail list
>and about 5-6 people who actively attend meetings.
>There are 29 users registered to our site.
>
>
>c. Have open and public meetings (no one group can
>have exclusionary "ownership" of an  IMC):
>Yes  We have been meeting every 2nd + 4th Sunday of a
>month at Victorian's Midnight Cafe, a small cafe in
>the
>victorian village area. We have also held tech
>meetings at various locations where the collective
>gathers to colloborate on the web design/software
>issues.
>
>d. Work toward developing a local Mission Statement
>or Statement of  Purpose. Network Mission Statement
>may be adopted or
>used on an interim basis,
>
>The Columbus Independent Media Center is all
>volunteer collective dedicated to providing central
>Ohio with a non-biased,
>non-corporate source of news and events.
>
>Columbus Independent Media Center Mission Statement:
>The Columbus Independent Media Collective serves to
>provide an alternative media outlet. We will work to:
>
>• Promote Diverse Media Coverage in Central Ohio.
>• Provide Links to alternative media, activist and
>research groups.
>• To cover event that are ignored or poorly covered
>by corporate media.
>• To network, coordinate, encourage, facilitate and
>support grassroots-based independent media.
>
>
>e. Establish and publish an editorial policy which
>is developed and functions through democratic
process,
>and with full
>transparency,
>
>http://cbusimc.org/editorial
>
>Submission Information
>
>The newswire operates on the principle of Open
>Publishing, an element essential to the Independent
>Media Centers (IMC) around the world. Simply put,
Open
>Publishing is to news and
>information what open source code is to software. To
>learn more see
>
>http://cbusimc.org
>http://www.cat.org.au/maffew/cat/openpub.html
>            This article about OP. In practice, the
>Open Publishing newswire allows anyone to
>instantaneously self-publish their work on
>http://cbusimc.org/
>http://www.cbusimc.org,
>a web site accessible from around the world.
>
>People are encouraged to "become the media," to use
>their own skills and abilities of observation,
>writing, and creativity in posting text,analysis,
>videos, audio clips, photos and artwork directly to
>the website.
>
>The use of, and belief in, Open Publishing rests on
>several central assumptions:
>
>• People who post to the newswire will present their
>information in a thorough, honest, and accurate
>manner.
>• Readers are intelligent and aware, skeptical and
>inquisitive of the posts they read and videos they
>watch, and are able to
>distinguish for themselves what is content of value
>and what is not.
>
>We think that all content published on this site
>should be free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and
>rebroadcast, on
>the internet and elsewhere, and we think that
Copyleft
>is an idea
>which should be central to Indymedia. Because of
this,
>all content published on
>this site is done so under these terms by default.
>However if you want to
>publish content under different terms and conditions,
>you must clearly
>state these terms and conditions in the text of your
>published content.
>For more information on copyleft and open content
>concepts see: http://www.opencontent.org
>http://www.creativecommons.org
>
>         Editorial Policy
>
>         Indymedia is a democratic newswire. We want
to
>see
>and hear the real stories, news, and opinions from
>around the country.
>While we struggle to maintain the newswire as a
>completely open and
>transparent forum, we do monitor it and remove posts.
>To minimize the chance
>of this make sure you understand the Independent
Media
>Center's
><http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/PrinciplesOfUnity>Principles
>of Unity
>
>Reality dictates that the editorial working group
will
>at times decide to hide posts and comments. This is
>not a decision that is taken lightly, and  the
>editorial working group does its best refrain
>from hiding/editing. Our vision for the function of
>the newswire, and the
>general framework in which all decisions to hide/edit
>will be made, are as
>follows:
>
>• The newswire is intended to be a community media
>resource, a space free from spam and abuse in general
>• That space will not contribute to the oppression
>of traditionally oppressed and marginalized groups.
>
>Members of the Editorial Collective are permitted to
>hide posts or remove them. Questionable content will
>be hidden or removed
>if two members of the Editorial Collective decide
that
>a post or comment
>has infracted one or more of these three points:
>
>• The post or comment constitutes abuse of the
>newswire (see note below);
>• The post or comment undermines the Principles of
>Unity of the IMC; e.g., hate speech; or
>• The post or comment constitutes a spam attack (see
>below) on the newswire.
>
>Editors may make typographical, spelling or grammar
>corrections And formatting improvements and remove
>extraneous,
>false, illegal (threatening, libelous, etc.), or
>abusive (pornographic, etc.)
>material and hate speech, and particularly with
>regards to syndicated
>articles, are encouraged to do so. Explanation of any
>modification should be
>inserted in brackets, as appropriate. Editors may
>remove copyrighted material
>on request of the copyright owner. At any time
another
>Editorial
>Collective member may dispute the hiding/editing of a
>comment or post. Upon
>hiding/editing a post, the member of the editorial
>working group Who did so may also
>add a comment explaining the basis upon which the
>Decision to edit/hide was
>made. This is time-consuming, so editorial collective
>members will
>do so to the best of their ability. In addition, all
>hidden posts will
>continue to remain publicly accessible one click away
>from the front
>page on a page listing only hidden posts. The link to
>view all hidden posts
>is located at the bottom of the newswire.
>
>
>f. Agree to the use of Open Publishing as described
>in the NIMC Editorial
>Policy
>Yes..
>
>g. Adopt a decision-making policy that is in
>alignment with consensus
>principles which include open, transparent and
>egalitarian processes.
>We do.
>
>h. Have a spokesperson(s) willing and capable of
>participating in the
>global decision-making process and meetings as a
>rotating
>liaison/representative, with a clear understanding
>of the responsibilities
>that come with this role,
>yes
>
>i. Participate in the key IMC Network Communication
>Methods that pertain to
>the health and vitality of the Network and that
>contribute to the work of
>the IMC. Assure that at least one person from your
>local IMC participates
>at any given time on the IMC-Communications list,
>yes
>         j. (NOT FINALIZED): Have no official
>affiliation
>with any political party,
>state or candidate for office (comments: but
>individual producers have
>freedom to do whatever they like and local IMCs can
>"feature" stories about
>various political parties and initiatives),
>we have none
>
>k. IMCs shall in no way engage in commercial
>for-profit enterprises. [We
>could add: The IMCN is committed to the
>decommercialization of information
>and will disassociate from any local IMC that
>decides to become a for
>profit media corporation.]
>Agreed.
>
>l. Display a ³local version² of the IMC ³i² logo on
>your website and
>literature.
>We do.
>
>m. Include the IMC Network current ³Cities List² on
>your site, preferably
>on the front page.
>
>We have it at the bottom and plan to include it on a
>column in a new site design.
>proposed_imc_name:
>Columbus Indymedia
>proposed_imc_url:
>http://columbus.indymedia.org/
>current_url:
>cbusimc.org
>city:
>Columbus
>
>state:
>OH
>
>country:
>USA
>
>contact_name:
>Kenton Cobb
>
>contact_email:
>effeminaterambo at gmail.com
>contact_phone:
>614-309-1791
>
>tech_name:
>Robert Ebright
>
>tech_email:
>robbt at azone.org
>
>tech_phone:
>614-313-8595
>
>focus:
>regional_focus
>
>critical_dates:
>none
>
>supporting_groups:
>The Free Press
>Columbus Anti-Authoritarian Media
>Talking Monkeys Improv Comedy Group
>URGE(urban radical guerrila entertainment) films
>AntiWar Columbus
>
>introductory_statement:
>We want to join the Indymedia network so that we can
>provide coverage of local events and provide central
>Ohioans with a site to report news that is important
>to them in the moment, as well as connect people to
>broader national and international issues they may
not
>have equal access to. resources:
>Currently we are using a Drupal codebase, and
>participating on the Drupal-IMC-dev list. It isn't
>perfectly tuned but is
>being improved. We are possibly going to be doing a
>streaming server with
>the Free Press and the free press has republished
some
>articles that were
>written for with the authors  permission. We don't
>have
>a real server and are using a cheap hosting site,
>which should probably be transferred to an IMC server
>somewhere upon acceptance.
>
>outreach:
>         We have spoken with many people and promoted
>the IMC
>through flyering and outreach. We have made
>presentations at local alternative media gatherings
>and are still working on bringing more people into
>using the site. We have covered local anti-war
events,
>protests and went  to  anti-war meetings and promoted
>the IMC. We have kept in touch with people who are
>interested and been having regular meetings at a
>stable spot.
>
>identity_makeup:
>There is a diverse group of people who have been
>involved in the Indymedia project since we have been
>trying to get it started a year ago. The collective
is
>pretty diverse. In our core group, we have lots of
>girls, guys, jews, blacks and  discordians and
>atheists and umm, some agnostics, maybe a christian
or
>two, democratically leaning people, anarchists,
>undecided politically motivated, old and young, poor
>and well to do.
>
>steps_represent_diversity:
>We want to make our site easy to use and plan on
>training people without internet skills on how to use
>it at various community organizing centers around the
>city. We are going to continue to outreach and
promote
>the site as a place to promote their events and we
>think that getting it listed on the rest of the
>indymedia network will raise awareness.
>
>steps_involve_new_workfields:
>We will try to teach people how to maintain the
>website and switch job roles on a regular basis.
>In order to avoid a gendered work division, we will
>empower all individuals to take up each role rather
>than be pushed into simply fufilling one task over
and
>over again.
>
>This is being done by teaching how to adminster
>Drupal to all members of the editorial collective and
>also attempting to include
>people in the development process and decision making
>aspects. Everyone is encouraged
>to write regular articles and cover events and we
have
>had a lot of participation from people
>new to the concept.
>
>Indymedia mailing list
>Indymedia at cbusimc.org
>

L. Ross

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"I advocate revolutionary changes... an end to capitalist exploitation, the abolition of racist policies, the eradication of sexism and the elimination of political repression. 
If that is a crime, then I am totally guilty." 
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