[imc-scotland-discussion] meetings

[chris]

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Meetings. I think one is overdue, more so me being at one. I am in
Edinburgh over xmas so would like to meet folk for a bit chat.

There's a chance to do a workshop in Glasgow at the Reshuffle event. I
can contribute to it but not sure what to do on my own.

My technical skills are improving slowly but from a very low base and
low knowledge of the existing systems. Seems there's 3 options though:
* keep on with DadaIMC
* join the Drupal IMC process
* join Ireland & Bristol with Oscait

Discussions like these can be hellish, though. I suggest that we need to
think hard and come up with a list of reuirements, improvements, wishes
etc. Everything that we want our IMC 2.0 ;) to do. I've started one but
don't have time to type it up this evening.

I also think that site users (casual and potential) need to be involved
in this. I'm thinking of sending out a survey (nauseating as that may
seem) to find out what folk want, what falls short and what confuses
them about the current set-up.

I'd welcome input from others on that, even if it's just in the form of
"did you get any responses back?"

Enough typing for now.

ch.

Jon wrote:
> about the website though - i understood that there is noone who
> maintains or improves the dada-mc software that we use, and currently
> noone who maintains our website, (apart from tom i think)
> 
> Tom is learning drupal so he can create a swanky new site: i have seen
> some of it, and it is looking very nice. for example a more
> 'word-processor' style posting is possible. Also i remember that tom
> said there wasnt a single imc software being developed, but lots of
> different ones.
> 
> would be nice to have a meeting in january to discuss this sort of
> stuff! even one on IRC would be adequate, but real-life would be nicer,
> and in a pub would be IMO the best :)
> 
> Jon
> 
> 
> Anarcho Babe wrote
>>> I don't think we should build a new system from scratch, it would make us too 
>>> dependent on one person. Most efforts of other indymedia techies are going at 
>>> the moment into customizing Drupal for Indymedia websites.
>>>
>>> Maybe we should have a meeting soon, but I am not enthusiastic at the moment 
>>> to call for one or for organising it. If anybody else is, I would try my best 
>>> to attend though, but I would like to avoid sitting there all alone as I 
>>> think I did for pretty frequently in aeh - was it 2004?

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chris h

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