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

[clara]

hi,
i like that idea - at least if I get it correctly: a wall calendar with
just twelve pages (with a pciture each or a collage of pictures). I don't
know about the UK, but I can't really remeber seeing them in the bookshops
or bookfairs in the Netherlands, but I would know quite a few places that
certainly could use one hanging on their walls...

There are certainly a lot of pocket calendar or booklets around, and i'm
not sure I would want to put effort into adding another one, but if others
want to: fine.

I think there should be no problem to use pictures from the picture desk
in the IMC in Edinburgh, if it is a fundraising effort to pay for this and
future IMC spaces. Mind you: if they the scottish authorities really want
to trial the 350 they have charged in October and November, we might need
some Indymedia presences anyway... otherwise there's a quite a few other
events coming up as well.
Just to be on the safe side: we can put up a note on the site to ask
people to contact us if they would object their photo's being used. We
have enough images anyway so if somebody doesn't want to then we can
easily use others.

No matter if this calendar idea goes ahead: maybe everybody could send
links to their two or three favourite images? We have soooo many photo's
that an selection could make a good posting anyway.

love and solidarity
clara

ionnek said:
> 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
>
>
>
>
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