[Imc-communication] applying for grants

[Occam]

On 03.11.2008, at 00:27, Anna wrote:

>
> For this specific debate I'd like to understand better what we are
> discussing about: is someone able to give some general information  
> e.g.
> who is applying for what in the name of what or whom? Where and in  
> whoch
> way exactly?

a) the cms groups still exists. they just met in rio for the techmeet  
to speak about the current state and developments.

b) some imc's using drupal and the drupal-dev list had the idea to  
make a grant to get money for drupal development. The money would be  
used to pay developer(s) to make it easy to create a "indymedia like"  
drupal installtion (!?!?!?) i also don't really got the specific todo  
list here.

c) imc-cms did not asked for a grant or anything

d) i think imc-cms is neither against or for drupal. We know it is  
easy to use and a "better" solution for a *small* IMC. Better then  
dada or sf-active. However, imc-cms is working on a solution that  
provides decentralisation to fight against the repression. Drupal can  
not provide this decentralisation. Also, drupal is a very bad choice  
for IMCs like brasil or germany where you get allot of traffic. "It  
does not scale" as a tech would say. Again, drupal works for small  
IMCs, but it would be a very bad choice to say that drupal is the  
solution for every IMC. It is not, and it will never be, even with a  
grant and a full time developer working on it. So far for technical  
reasons that would speak against the grant.

e) however, some people from the imc-cms group are totally against  
using money from a NGO.

greetz to berlin
occam