[IMC-UK-Features] New "Other Projects" box

[euan2000 at onetel.com]

Quoting ben <ben at riseup.net>:

> bomb, gaged, etc etc and another schnews links added to the video page
> for schnewsmovies.


and :

Reel News.

http://www.reelnews.co.uk/

Text: In the war between rich and poor we need Reel News. Bi-monthly produced
DVD of national and international campaigns and social struggles.  Soon 
to have
online video report archives.

Also, please list.

Oscar Beard - link:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=oscar+beard+video+site%3Aindymedia.org.uk&btnG=Search

Independent video journalist covering campaigns and protest, and 
regular IMC UK
and Reel News contributor. A video archive covering the last four years of
national and international protest, social struggles, multinational
investigations and all-out riots.


(from recent email to list from Oscar Beard)


> maqui at syndicate.org.uk wrote:
>> I've gone to admin today to try to see whether i would manage to do a
>> new "Other Projects' box in the left-hand side column to include the
>> schNEWS banner, but i'm afraid  i couldn't suss it out. I'm not even
>> sure if this is a templates thing or what, but probably it is no?
>
> Ideally it requires template changes to insert a new box plus changes
> to allow that box to be editable in admin.
>
>> So if someone can tell us how to do it it'd be cool, but probably it's
>> quicker if someone that knows how to just go ahead and do it, as the
>> proposed deadline for that proposal was passed last sunday. Meanwhile
>> the schNEWS banner still displays in the existing 'Projects' box,
>> together with the other imcuk projects banners.
>
> I've done a quick bodge which is to subdivide the projects box into
> two categories.
>
> However, this all brings up old issues of the sorry state of the
> 'projects' static pages generally and I question the need and sense in
> defining these pages as indymedia projects or other.
>
> For example.
>
> the photo 'projects' page has no projects at all, it is purely advice.
>
> the video page lists dozens of projects, hardly any of which are
> indymedia projects as such.
>
> the cinema page lists screening projects generally, not just
> 'indymedia' branded screenings.
>
> the radio page lists a variety of grassroots radio projects and there
> is no uk indymedia radio project as such any more
>
> Infact, the only indymedia projects in the projects box are offline
> (which is currently a london only project) and mobile indymedia (which
> london indymedia doesn't bother linking to).
>
> basically, the projects banners are really media type guides that tell
> you about grassroots media projects in the uk.
>
> so... as it stands, it might be better if the offline link became a
> print media link and included not just offline but also schnews, bath
> bomb, gaged, etc etc and another schnews links added to the video page
> for schnewsmovies.
>
> ben
>
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