[imc-oxford-features] PROPOSAL: Oxford IMC should not submit an independent Oxford response to the Payment Consulta.

[Mr. Demeanour]

The payment-discuss list is (was?) a discussion about payment in
Indymedia - paying staff, soliciting grants, that kind of thing.

Discussion was suspended about a year ago pending the result of a
Consulta - a sort of questionnaire to local IMCs, to determine what
different IMCs do on the ground, and what their views are about money,
how to get it, and what to do with it.

The discussion about payment has woken-up again (but not on the
payment-discuss list - on the imc-communication list this time) as a
result of a new proposal to seek a large amount of funding for Indymedia
Drupal development from the Knight Foundation. This has given new legs
to the Consulta, and IMC UK is again trying to get a response together.

I PROPOSE that Oxford IMC is not sufficiently together to answer this
Consulta in a meaningful way, and that we in Oxford should therefore
collaborate with UK IMC to help them complete it as a collective
response for the UK.

Note that other UK local IMCs may still wish to submit their own response.

I suggest that we should consider this proposal agreed if there are no
objections in the next week - i.e. 10:00am, 20th November.

Archives of the payment-discuss list:
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/payment-discuss/

Part of the thread in IMC-communication:
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-communication/2008-October/1030-9s.html

The Consulta in several languages including English:
http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/IndymediaPaymentConsulta

Below is a post to the imc-uk-network list by Tony suggesting a UK
approach to completing the Consulta.

MrD.


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Imc-uk-network] Global IMC Finance Consulta
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:38:45 +0000
From: Tony <tony at cactusnetwork.org.uk>
To: imc-uk-network at lists.indymedia.org
CC: imc-london at lists.indymedia.org

Hello all

In response to the Global discussion about grants going on the 'tech'
and 'communications' lists - it reminded me that we should now start
doing this Consulta - that has been worked on by the finance list to
all understand the current state of the network's relation to money.
The replies will be collated and relevant issues debated. Then (maybe
in a year) we will see if there is a clear position to be made for
the IMC 'Principals of Unity' (POU), that should help clear up some
of the misunderstandings apparent in the global network to date.

So we can do this on the network list as a UK reply - or individual
collectives can send in their own responses. It may be possible to
send a reply as the UK with a variety of responses - i guess will
will agree on most, but to some questions we might have different
answers - ie. "Do you have a space/office?" Maybe to start the ball
rolling, collectives that are interested can start discussing it and
reply to this list on how they want to move forward.

I will be hassling the london collective to talk about it at our next
meeting.

cheers tony
one on imc london

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There is wiki set up to collect the responses here:
http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/IndymediaPaymentConsulta

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The Consulta

The collective profile

1) Collective Name, Country and URL:

2) Does your indymedia center have an official legal status (as a non
profit corporation / association / other)?

Resources

3) How do you get the resources to run your IMC -- do you pay for
services and equipment with money, or do you get these resources
through barter and other non-monetary forms of exchange?

4) If you have monetary expenses, what are your main sources of
income to cover them?

5) If your IMC gets things done without relying on money, can you
explain the ways you are able to do this?

6) Do you have a space / office? If so, do you pay rent? Do you share
with other social organizations or grassroots movements?

7) Do any of your projects accept advertising for income?

8) Are your participants asked to pay regular dues?

Fund request and donations

9) Have you ever / are you currently receiving a corporate / government
grant?

10) Have you ever received money from an independent foundation?

11) Have you ever received a money donation, anonymous or not?

12) Do you have a relation of partnership with a non-profit
organization to help, for example, in processes like accepting
donations or managing finances?

Payment

13) Have you ever / are you currently paying any members of your
collective? If so, please describe the tasks & agreements.

14) Have you ever / are you currently paying people who are not in
your collective for labor?

Indymedia finance

15) Did you know there are funds available for local IMCs?

16) Have you ever requested funds from the global network?

17) Have you ever contributed to the global bank account?

18) Have you ever given or received financial or material support to
or from other local or regional collectives? What kind?

Comments

19) Does your IMC have restrictions or policies about fundraising,
paying for expenses, or member payment? If so please describe them.

20) Is there anything else you'd like to add? Do you think this
consulta was able to grasp all the points related to the IMC
financing question? If not, please tell why