[imc-st.louis] Minutes from 11-11-07 STLIMC Meeting

[Ben]

Present: Ben W, Scottie A, Digger
Next meeting: 12/9 (2nd Sunday of the month)

Minutes online:
http://reboot.stlimc.org/minutes/notes-imc-meeting-11-11-07


CAPCR sidebar/section on IMC?
- CAPCR will soon be reintroducing local control bill, need an online
resource
- Ongoing question about how to offer IMC as a resource w/o simply
giving out soapboxes
- How to preserve journalistic profile, and editorial identity?
- Should CAPCR get it's own entire site hosted on CAMP webserver, or
embedded sidebar?
- confluence, which has its own website, would get link, not embedded
sidebar

- Related: contact Lionel Nixon of UAPO to ask if they could use a
website similar to what we could offer CAPCR.


Feature "Wilderness for Missouri" story?
- ask Jim Scheff which story from wilderness newspaper he'd like to
propose to IMC editors as feature


Kevin Johnson story from Confluence
- Digger to post soon to draft editorial


Tech issues with website reboot.stimc.org
- Ben: there are still things we need to set up before site is a
reasonable replacement for the old site at stlimc.org, e.g. measures to
make sure IP addresses of visitors aren't stored indefinitely.
- When it is done, the switchover at stlimc.org from old site to new one
will occur, in a few hours.


Need for promotion, ASAP
- Flyers, Create Buzz about alternative media
- People are actively seeking out alternative source
- Promote specifically to groups like CAPR, UAPO (folks who could use
IMC as online resource)?
- Also, how to flyer?  That is, have a generic flyer like the one used
in 2001, or include titles 5 of latest features, for example?


Scottie presented letter of protest to KDHX
- Formal protest about KDHX staff conduct during KDHX/STLIMC joint
agreement with community media training courses, sent to KDHX board via
registered mail.
- Letter seeks redress by asking that people who tried to sign up for
courses via IMC website be offered spots in the next available training
courses.
- Scottie made clear letter was written from Scottie; i.e. he doesn't
claim to speak for IMC in the letter.

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Ben West
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