[Imc-india] PROPOSAL: IMC India suspends until new collective DEADLINE 12.01.2006

[Vidyadhar Gadgil]

On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 00:22 +0100, boud wrote:

> Anyway, i suggest converting your proposal to a more formal "internal"
> IMC India proposal, just to be sure there are no misunderstandings - 
> maybe there still *are* some people hanging around who want to get 
> back to this. Here's my attempt to do this.

Have been trying to volunteer for ages, no response, which shows how
defunct things are. Anyway, here goes, I volunteer again.

About the proposal, see below:

>   (a) IMC India has been through several ups and downs of
> temporary collectives over the past few years and has functioned more
> as an electronic collaboration rather than as a real local collective:
>   http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/ImcIndia
>   (b) during the periods of inactivity, there can be quite a few spam 
> and hate posts

These two are ok.

>   (d) there are about 150 non-bouncing subscribers to imc-india - among those
> living in India, it should be possible to organise a *real* collective,

Yes, and let's do it fast. We could maybe have a meeting in Mumbai or
something, or do it over email?

> the present volunteers of IMC India and supporter (i.e. people on the
> imc-india mailing list) decide to:
> 
> (1) temporarily suspend open publishing on the existing web site
> (2) put a notice on the existing web site announcing the need to 
> reorganise a new collective

This must be time-bound. In my opinion, IMC India meets a real need; the
problem has been on the editorial and admin. side. So we say a month,
get our act together, and have the News Wire functioning thereafter.

> (3) request removal of IMC India from the cities list

No, No! It meets a real need. If we can get organised in a
month or less, there is no need for this.

> (4) express their hope to organise a new collective (possibly a city
> based collective rather than a "national" one) which will go through
> the full new-imc organising process

City-based may not work. The need is for "national". For city-based,
there are already others. E.g., in Goa where I live, we have Goanet
mailgroup, which meets the need (though it is not exactly a News Wire,
it allows posting of everything and you can get all News and Views
there). But what "progressive" open publishing site is there nationally?

Best,
Vidyadhar