[imc-scotland-discussion] meetings

[Mike92@riseup.net]

I think a meeting - or better regular meetings - would be an excellent 
initiative.  As well as the technical aspects I think it would be good to 
discuss how we can improve the coverage and range of articles.  Also we 
could produce some wee flyers to leave on buses etc to publicise the site? 
Could be done cheap if photocopied at ACE.

Congratulations to Makno , Chris and others who have been doing so much good 
work recently.  Unfortunately other commitments mean i am not able to write 
many articles these days, but i think indy scot is v important and has a lot 
of potential.

Maybe one way to increase involvement would be to have a rotating editorial 
team, whereby 2 or 3  people have responsibility for say one week for 
writing and soliciting new features? Personally i would find that a lot 
easier, if i knew i had responsibility for doing some articles say one week 
out of six or so.  Of course there would be absolutely nothing to stop folk 
writing stuff when it wasnt their "turn" - quite the contrary!

cheers mike, edinburgh

ps i would also be keen to see the rebirth of INC indymedia news-sheet, 
though i think that would need quite a sizeable committed group, as it would 
need to involve financing the news-sheet too.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "chris" <chris-h at diskant.net>
To: "imcscotland discussion" <imc-scotland-discussion at lists.indymedia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 6:52 PM
Subject: Re: [imc-scotland-discussion] meetings


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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?
>
> - --
> chris h
>
> Lost 6 weeks of emails dated from June to mid July.
> - --> If it was important, resend it :)
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