[Imc-drupal-dev] Proposal Qualifications...

[Benjamin Melancon]

I am worse than useless.  These are things I haven't been able to form into 
complete sentences but hope can be touched on in the proposal.

- uniqueness of open, securely anonymous access in an active news and 
community site context, now to have all the features of a modern publishing, 
content management, and community site.

[anyone have any ideas for attachments-- workflow sketches of the 
technology, historical overview of Indymedia, anything like that?]


notes:

The Indymedia movement set out to save journalism before newspapers 
acknowledged it needed saving.

Indymedia threw itself completely open when most newspapers that had web 
sites were afraid to accept reader comments.


in some cities, such as Boston, spam and trolling that exploits the 
limitations of legacy IMC software has severely hurt the community

Indymedia Boston, from a role of catch-up, and Indymedia Belgium, from a 
role of leadership, can form a model for Indymedia worldwide

preserve the unique elements of Indymedia - openness, anonymity

quote PBS idealab article on attacks on protesters and press, need for 
coverage form regular people's and activists perspectives


use of and outlets for anonymous posting

the most open and accessible media platform with a commitment to resisting 
censorship

long tradition of otherpress feeds, acting as a central aggregator without

but this proposal isn't just about helping Indymedia continue to fulfill its 
unique role going into a second decade

this is about getting even more local with journalism initiatives

Indymedia offers the lowest barrier to participation of any news source of 
significant profile, a quality that becomes both more important and more 
powerful at a local level.  IMCs have a commitment to openness often lacking 
in local sites (placeblogs).

Therefore, developing technologies built on Drupal Organic Groups and feed 
handling to allow local subsites and richer sharing of content among sister 
sites will introduce an important player on the scene of local media 
(Indymedia centers especially, but also other groups using the software 
developed for this proposal).

and above all to help even more local content be created and find its 
audience and bubble up to the current regional IMCs similarly to how 
regional IMCs bubble up to indymedia.org, but with even more contributor 
involvement

allowing communities, not appointed editors, to encourage good content


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Sofia JarrinT wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was thinking we need to re-write the last section of this proposal that asks: 
>  What experience do you or your organization have
> to successfully develop this project? (1600 CHARACTERS)  *
> 
> And we can add an addendum with the more specific Drupal ideas that people sent me. So could the Drupal techs please send me a quick 2-3 lines on your experience working with Drupal and volunteer experience with Indymedia? I hope I can summarize it in the space they gave us.
> 
> peace
> Sofia
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