[Imc-g8-2005] new project: G8 calendar 2006

[ionnek]

hi,

following Ulla's proposal to produce an indymedia fundraising calendar 
for 2006
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-g8-2005/2005-July/0717-fn.html,
zcats comment about "we need the dosh"
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-g8-2005/2005-July/0717-83.html
and ben's worries regarding copyright of pictures posted on imc uk,
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-g8-2005/2005-July/0717-dx.html

I would like to comment:
Maybe instead of doing a pocket calendear with one or two pages per 
week, which would be an awful lot of work, we could go for a 12 pages 
wall calendar? Select 12 pictures (or maybe slightly more if each page 
is a collage) and 12 quotes seems easier than a pocket-book type 
calendear: Less material needed, less layouting needed, less 
photographers and writers to chase, easier to produce.

I don't think that a fundraising calendar necessarily needs to be seen 
as "commercial" in the sense of the creative commons licence used for 
the pictures. After all, those who took the pictures we would include 
used the imc facilities for free to publish the pictures. The edinburgh 
media center cost us lots of money which we still have to raise. Lots of 
people were needed to "run" this center (not even doing indymedia stuff, 
just housekeeping), none of them was paid and many worked more than 12 
hours a day. So I think it is a giving and taking between those who took 
pictures in the streets and indymedia who provided the infrastructure.
However, it's nicer style to ask for permission or donation of a picture 
to be included in a fundraising calendar, than just go ahead and use 
them. We could try to use only pics of people we know (which in a way 
would be a shame and somehow against the openness idea), and if we 
really want to include pics of photographers not known to us, we could 
put a call-out on the imc uk page.

best
ionnek