[imc-uk-collective] Edit to Brighton Invite e-mither

Wed Jan 12 09:21:09 PST 2011

Hi

I'm pasting the final email draft we agreed on at the bottom of this
message.

Seems to have changed a bit since, esp. at the beginning. If that was
discussed and agreed last night, great.

The list of names at the bottom is not up to date and needs to be
changed. Letyourlifesing does not want to be a signatory. Spacebunny has
not responded as far as I'm aware. baylott needs to be changed to BenA
at his request.

My suggestions re. the addition about the meeting/film etc:

We extend an invitation to media activists and volunteers [SUGGEST WE ADD: 'and anyone who wants to be involved in independent, DIY media' or something similar to make it clear you don't need to already be a media activist/vol to get involved] to an  
open meeting at 10AM on Satuday 29th of January 2011 at the Cowley  
Centre [SHOULD BE COWLEY CLUB, I THINK, PLUS ADD ADDRESS: 12 London Road, Brighton BN1 4JA] to discuss the way forward for the MayDay Collective.

Saturday  10 AM
AGENDA (subject to change)

1 IMC Global application
2 Editorial Policy
3 Technical Issues, Equipment Purchase, New Server
4 Fund Raising, Outreach.

1.00 PM Lunch
2.30 PM Continuation and Further Discussion.

5.30 Food and Plenary?

Sunday

Film Screening 2.00 PM with discussion to follow, Venue TBA see  
South Coast Indymedia for details.

Hope to see you in Brighton

Still need the email list address adding when we've got one...

cheers

genny

Nobody wrote:
> One or two things needed changing in the e-mither to be sent out as  
> an invite to join
> I've done me best
> Any suggestions etc as always very welcome.
>
> NEW EDIT BEGINS
>
>
>   
>> Dear indymedia uk volunteers and media activists
>>
>> As you may already know at the Bradford meeting in December, it was  
>> agreed that the UK Indymedia project
>> would fork into two separate projects on or before 1st May 2011.
>>
>> The UK Indymedia network will be dissolved.
>>
>> The two forked projects will work in parallel and support and co- 
>> operate with each other in a two 'pronged' (no apology for the pun)
>> attack at the underbelly of the ruling corporate class and its hold  
>> on the control information through the 'intelligence' services and  
>> the MSM.
>>
>> It was felt at the December meeting that this was the only  
>> resolution for the then current impasse and lack of consensus  
>> created by disagreements surrounding the future format of the UK  
>> site and the future of the UK Indymedia network in general.
>>
>> Our new collective, provisionally named the MayDay Collective  
>> (initially known as the 'Virtual Collective' and also for a short  
>> time the 'UK Collective') will take over the running of the open  
>> newswire currently at www.indymedia.org.uk <http:// 
>> www.indymedia.org.uk/>, with a new name that won't include "UK" and  
>> on a new indymedia.org sub-domain, which has yet to be agreed  
>> (provisionally http://mayday.indymedia.org). The existing website  
>> in its entirety will transfer to the new url.
>>  (I hope you're taking notes, there will be a quiz later!)
>>
>> The other group (aggromedia) will continue developing an aggregator  
>> site they are
>> working on.
>>
>> The indymedia.org.uk domain will be used to host an archive of the uk
>> web site which will no longer be updated (from 1 May 2011). A banner
>> will point people to the new address of the uk site and to the
>> aggregator site.
>>
>> Local Mir sites will still be able to be accessed through the current
>> urls, eg [local].indymedia.org.uk or
>> indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/[local], although these urls will be
>> redirected to the new site and url.
>>
>>
>> WHO WE ARE.
>>
>> We are a group of long term Indymedia activists who have been helping
>> run, maintain and provide content for the UK Indymedia site for  
>> many years; we include
>> activists from Wales, Scotland and England.
>>
>> Indymedia UK covers global regional and local topics and includes  
>> parts
>> of the UK not covered by other IMC sites via the open newswire on the
>> front page of the existing site. We support this and want to continue
>> doing this.
>>
>> We are strongly committed to open publishing. We are committed to
>> dealing with abuses of this model in ways that don't compromise
>> the principle of open publishing itself. We believe that the best
>> approach to dealing with controversial issues should be based on  
>> the use
>> of critical thinking, reason, evidence based research and source  
>> checking.
>>
>> We are committed to non-hierarchical, consensus based, open  
>> decision making.
>> We wish to go through the New IMC process in order that we can be
>> globally recognised as an autonomous collective, with our own
>> independent site.
>>
>> We're serious about consensus. We believe that consensus can only work
>> within a network of activists who know one another, have shared
>> objectives, and trust one another. We aim to build a network of  
>> trust in
>> our collective.
>>
>> When we fully gain our autonomy, we wish to roll out long developed
>> improvements to the UK Indymedia site.
>>
>> When we have a name, we can submit our new IMC
>> application. Mayday.indymedia.org  has been suggested as a way of
>> marking the date we go live, and as a way of escaping the difficulties
>> that are posed by the use of inaccurate geographical descriptors  
>> such as
>> ‘United Kingdom’ or ‘Great Britain'. There is an urgent need to  
>> identify
>> and agree a name for the site, and we welcome suggestions and ideas as
>> to how best to proceed with this task.
>>
>> We will be using 'MayDay' as our
>> working name for the moment.
>>
>> We are open and welcoming to new and existing indymedia activists who
>> are committed to working on, developing and contributing to the  
>> existing site and who
>> share our aims and approach to open publishing. If you would like  
>> to be involved, please
>> send a message introducing yourself to our organising list: [LIST
>> ADDRESS - do we have this yet?]
>>
>> We extend an invitation to media activists and volunteers to an  
>> open meeting at 10AM on Satuday 29th of January 2011 at the Cowley  
>> Centre Brighton to discuss the way forward for the MayDay Collective.
>>
>> Saturday  10 AM
>> AGENDA (subject to change)
>>
>> 1 IMC Global application
>> 2 Editorial Policy
>> 3 Technical Issues, Equipment Purchase, New Server
>> 4 Fund Raising, Outreach.
>>
>> 1.00 PM Lunch
>> 2.30 PM Continuation and Further Discussion.
>>
>> 5.30 Food and Plenary?
>>
>> Sunday
>>
>> Film Screening 2.00 PM with discussion to follow, Venue TBA see  
>> South Coast Indymedia for details.
>>
>> Hope to see you in Brighton
>> From
>>
>> The MayDay Collective
>>
>>
>> including chrisc, ftp, MrD, phunkee, mike-d, baylott, two_percent,
>> anarchobabe, spacebunny, genny, letyourlifesing, shiar, ANY OTHERS??
>>     
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> AND ENDS HERE
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> If there is a limit on the list for attachments (as there is on this  
> list of 30K) The e-mither will have to go out via the moderator for  
> that list because the pdf flyer is over 30K in size i.e. its  
> currently 272K
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> ATB
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Dear indymedia uk volunteers

We are writing to inform you of an important decision which was made at
the uk network meeting held in Bradford on 11 December.

At the Bradford meeting it was agreed that the UK Indymedia project
would fork* into two separate projects on or before 1st May 2011.

The UK indymedia network will be dissolved. Many issues and
disagreements over the past two years preceded this decision and it is
now hoped that all involved will be able to continue to work on activist
media projects without ongoing conflicts.

Our new collective will take over the running of the open newswire
currently at www.indymedia.org.uk
<http://www.indymedia.org.uk/>, with a new name that won't include "UK"
and on a new indymedia.org sub-domain, which has yet to be agreed. The
existing website in its entirety will transfer to the new url.

The other group will continue developing an aggregator site they are
working on.

The indymedia.org.uk domain will be used to host an archive of the uk
web site which will no longer be updated (from 1 May 2011). A banner
will point people to the new address of the uk site and to the
aggregator site.

Local Mir sites will still be able to be accessed through the current
urls, eg [local].indymedia.org.uk or
indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/[local], although these urls will be
redirected to the new site and url.

WHO ARE WE?

We are a group of long term Indymedia activists who have been helping
run and maintain the UK Indymedia site for many years; we include
activists from Wales, Scotland and England.

Indymedia UK covers global regional and local topics  and includes parts
of the UK not covered by other IMC sites via the open newswire on the
front page of the existing site. We support this and want to continue
doing this.

We are strongly committed to open publishing. We are committed to
dealing with abusive uses of this model in ways that don't compromise
the principle of open publishing itself. We believe that the best
approach to dealing with controversial issues should be based on the use
of critical thinking, reason, evidence based research and source checking.

We are committed to non-hierarchical, consensus based decision making.
We wish to go through the New IMC process in order that we can be
globally recognised as an autonomous collective, with our own
independent site.

We're serious about consensus. We believe that consensus can only work
within a network of activists who know one another, have shared
objectives, and trust one another. We aim to build a network of trust in
our collective.

When we fully gain our autonomy, we wish to roll out long developed
improvements to the UK Indymedia site.

When we have a name, we can name our list and submit our new IMC
application. Mayday.indymedia.org  has been suggested as a way of
marking the date we go live, and as a way of escaping the difficulties
that are posed by the use of inaccurate geographical descriptors such as
‘United Kingdom’ or ‘Great Britain'. There is an urgent need to identify
and agree a name for the site, and we welcome suggestions and ideas as
to how best to proceed with this task. We will be using 'MayDay' as our
working name for the moment.

We are open and welcoming to new and existing indymedia activists who
are committed to working on and developing the existing site and who
share our aims and approach. If you would like to be involved, please
send a message introducing yourself to our organising list: [INSERT LIST
ADDRESS HERE].

We will be meeting in Brighton on SAT/SUN 29-30 JAN 2011. More details nearer the time.

From

The MayDay Collective

including chrisc, ftp, MrD, phunkee, mike-d, two_percent, anarchobabe, genny, shiar, BenA. [THIS IS THE RIGHT LIST OF NAMES, AS FAR AS I KNOW]