[Imc-drupal-dev] the grant proposal and IMC blocks...

[mark burdett]

Hi, 
I think one problem that this proposal ran into is that over the years, 
local IMCs have sent out their various statements about global funding 
but this hasn't all been codified anywhere.  for example point #3 at 
http://archives.lists.indymedia.org/imc-finance/2003-February/001762.html 
which my local IMC sent out years ago is relevant here.  but how one 
would easily find this message five years later I'm not sure.

I mainly do not understand why this keeps coming up with UC-IMC, fiscal 
sponsor of both this proposal and the imc-finance donation fund, because 
they have had criticism about almost the exact same scenarios in the 
past.

hopefully thru all this at least some folks learned more about global 
network structure and processes, much of which I guess is otherwise sort 
of "lost" on the list archives..

I really hope this is just the start of lots of productive conversations 
about coordinating & collaborating as volunteers to fix the "tech 
troubles" etc. that local sites are having.  thats actually the kind of 
discussion i'd like to have on this list.

--mark

On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:49:13 -0800, Sofia JarrinT wrote:
> hey there,
> 
> Just a quick email to let you know that there is a super lively 
> discussion going on at the imc-communications at lists.indymedia.org 
> about the grant proposal. Currently, there is a block to move forward 
> (although we haven't even made it to the 2nd round) from IMC Rosario 
> in Argentina, and a couple other Indymedias are considering blocks as 
> well.
> 
> The block(s) revolve around the idea of Indymedia getting funding or 
> associating itself with a foundation like Knight and their 
> relationship to McClatchy Newspapers. Although I personally know we 
> weren't trying to represent all of Indymedia but... Let the voices be 
> heard. At some point, there was some really cool Chomsky quote about 
> manufacturing consent...
> 
> And, I've also heard some voices of support, but I think it boils down 
> to "I have tech troubles too!"
> 
> I've been going at it alone on the discussion about this, mainly 
> because it's interesting to me. But just be advised of what is going 
> on... I don't mean to be speaking for all of "us" and have been trying 
> mainly to make points of clarification. I assume we're waiting until 
> Nov 15 to see if we make it to the 2nd round. Either way, the Knight 
> Foundation site doesn't let me to edit/remove our proposal once 
> submitted.
> 
> UK is officially removing themselves from the list of participating 
> Indymedias on the grant, mainly because it wasn't clear they wanted to 
> participate to begin with.
> 
> I'm really really hoping the conversation will soon develop into the 
> tech problems we're facing @ the global level and how/if funding would 
> help Indymedia overcome this. Or if we can build enough volunteer 
> energy to fix "it"
> 
> peace,
> sofia
> 
> 
> 
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