[imc-scotland-discussion] Spam and server problems, site improvements

[maskedavenger at riseup.net]

I would much prefer having our server somewhere out of reach (well, m out
of reach) by the law but less reliable, than somewhere the cops in the UK
can easily seize the servers.

I think that making decisions over email works ok. However, firstly theres
the problem of whos on list. How do people get on this list? How many
contributors know how to get on it, or even know it exists?

Secondly, what to do when theres major disagreement? Could we use IRC to
hold a meeting? If that fails then we have a face to face meeting.

I know someone who wrote a chat room designed for meetings. It allows you
to have an agenda, minutes and a facilitator and was semi-secure. We could
look into that?

Also, nice work on the recaptcha. Looks good. Although I dont quite
understand how you translate books not yet translated yet it still knows
when youve put the correct word in. Hmm.

Sam


> Jon wrote:
>> Good work Tom. The captcha thing works well.
>>
>> I agree with the RSS feeds proposal you suggested (im sure i fed back in
>> person, rather than on the list). Perhaps as a decision making thing we
>> could use the voting system we use for promoting features currently.
>> Does that seem viable from a tech point of view? It would be a system
>> people are currently used to, so that is an advantage.
>
> The current system is tied closely to the moderation of articles. It
> isn't a general voting system. That is fine, since I wrote a voting
> module more flexible than the drupal poll module myself after the RSS
> feed work. Also the article voting way only enfranchises editors not
> contributors.
>
> I am in favour of allowing all users to vote in polls providing they
> have written an article that survived moderation in the last year.
>
> Perhaps the first poll should be a referendum on polling contributors to
> decide stuff vs remaining with the current decision-making process
> (which is?).
>
>> Re: the server probs - we should probably change hosting. How is the
>> noflag.org.uk collective placed for hosting indymedia scotland? ;)
>
> Yeah those noflag.org.uk anarcho-geeks sure are cranking up the
> electronic revolution. What a diamond bunch of geezers and geezerettes.
>
> We will have to consider carefully. Indymedia UK have had problems with
> their servers being physically seized because they are located in the UK
> (I think). Greece is safer in that respect.
>
> --
> Tom
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