[IMC-Docs] [IMC-Docs-Tech] request for Pittsburgh IMC files

[kwadronaut]

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Hello,

mtoups at indymedia.org wrote:
> 
> Hi imc-docs maintainers,
> 
> Pittsburgh IMC would like to request a tar archive of our files on the 
> docs.indymedia.org wiki.  These files would be named Local/ImcPittsburgh* 
> Local/IMCPittsburgh* and Local/Pgh* (unfortunately the naming was not 
> always consistent).

I don't see any reason to be against this.

> 
> We are deploying our own wiki based on twiki 4.1.2 and would like to 
> integrate these older pages and their histories.  So, both the .txt and 
> the .txt,v files would be appreciated.  (a tar.gz via email should be 
> fine)

Sounds like a fair reason to me.

> 
>   - some additional information, for those who may be interested:

Thanks for taking the time to inform us about it.

> 
> We've come to depend upon twiki for our day-to-day collective functions 
> and so when docs.indy was unfortunately unavailable, I had to hastily 
> configure a local twiki installation so that we could continue with our 
> obligations (most notably, a radio show that airs every week at a fixed 
> time, and cannot happen without a wiki).
> 
> As we know that downtime was longer than expected, and since then we've 
> come to depend upon features from twiki >= 4 (Dakar and later), as well as 
> other plugins and customizations.  So it seems at this point that we need 
> a wiki that we can manage, and are prepared to guarantee uptime for.  I 
> personally prefer network-wide shared resources in the indymedia network, 
> like docs.indy, over local solutions.  But I also have a responsibility to 
> the needs of our local collective, so in this case I'm afraid we need a 
> locally managed and accountable wiki.
> 
> We all owe a debt of gratitude to the imc-docs workers who volunteered to 
> work on docs.indymedia.org over the years.  It has proven to be an 
> extremely valuable resource, and allowed us to organize and grow our local 
> IMC at a time when we would not have been able to set up our own wiki.  I 
> know intrigeri and djrom in particular, as well as others I am forgetting, 
> deserve much credit for providing the indymedia network with this resource 
> (and chrisc for rescuing the server).  I hope that other IMCs can continue 
> to utilize this resource to strengthen their collectives.

Personally I find a pity that instead of joining the existing group, you
 decided to diy because there is a lack of energy/people in the current
collective. On the other hand, i find it really nice to see that initiative!

I'm wondering on the same time, can you just move those files to another
twiki install and having it all working like a charm?

I will make the bzipped archive today or tomorrow. I'll wait sending it
until some other people reply too.

> 
> thanks,
> Matt Toups
> Pittsburgh IMC
> 

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tell all your friends about us ;-)

kwadronaut
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