[Imc-drupal-dev] mark, your edits...

[mark burdett]

On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:31:57 -0700, Sofia JarrinT wrote:
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> I definitely think we can somehow add that to the proposal without 
> taking away the Drupal focus of it. That is, it would be super 
> important to include the fact that we have techs who have been working 
> on an Imc-cms for years and could work collaboratively to work indeed, 
> in a "multi-layered system." I love your idea of creating a Drupal 
> front-end client.

Regarding the technical issues of imc-cms and drupal, I know very little 
on how the imc-cms stuff works (or will work) so I don't know how 
feasible it is, it's just an idea.  I think other folks on this list are 
or were involved with imc-cms, or someone should do some research.

One thing I want to mention at the moment is the whole question of 
co-option..  If the grant is explicitly supporting indymedia bolivia, 
are the IMCs involved getting the explicit support and consensus of the 
bolivia collective(s)?  If the grant is explicitly supporting the 
imc-cms work, are the IMCs involved getting the explicit support & 
consensus of the imc-cms working group?  If the grant is explicitly 
supporting global indymedia, are the IMCs involved getting the explicit 
support & consensus of the global network?

I've definitely raised this issue with UC-IMC before so i'm not entirely 
surprised the same question is coming up for something they are fiscally 
sponsoring.  But I would like them to take this to heart and not repeat 
past mistakes (maybe it's the high turnover of paid staff).  To somewhat 
lessen the controversy it seems best to focus the application on one or 
a few local IMCs that are fully on board, and from what I read 
newschallenge is supposed to be for local projects anyways.  If the work 
is being done openly and open-source then it will hopefully have wider 
benefits automatically.

Although one thing I was wondering... where do I download all the 
multi-million dollar open-source stuff that newschallenge has been 
building so far?  looks like there was some interesting stuff being 
worked on @ http://www.newschallenge.org/winners/2007

--mark