[Imc-uk-network] [Imc-uk-process] New aggregated UK Site

[gringo ben]

Yeap, any attempt at change is better than none. MrD agrees there is
an implicit hierarchy in indymedia but claims that those in those
positions of technical or access elite do not abuse their powers. I
personally disagree having found my email blocked from the lists and
I'm sure other have experienced similar. But that doesn't concern me
so much as the fact that of the 50 or so MIR admin logins, only a
handful are used by people moderating the site on a daily basis. A
look through the list archives show that over the last year we've been
down to perhaps four people taking control of pretty much all the
editorial admin of the site and as JimDog points out, most if not all
of those people are not even performing admin as part of an active
regional collective. It's about time IMC-UK admitted that it is in a
really unhealthy state and one which might improve if people stopped
trying to stand in the way of turning the IMC-UK front page into an
aggregation site as was agree over two years ago.

ben

2009/10/17 Garcon du Monde <gdm at fifthhorseman.net>:
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 10:20:12PM +0100, anargeek wrote:
>> On Fri 16-Oct-2009 at 11:37:19AM +0100, gringo ben wrote:
>> > It's great that somebody has started some work on this
>> > although I'm not convinced drupal is the way to go
>> > rather than something more intigrated with indymedia
>> > sites around the uk, like either mir or preferable,
>> > hyperactive.
>>
>> I think the easiest thing would be to do it using Mir,
>> indymedia.us already imports article into a Mir data base
>> via RSS feeds so it should just be a matter of reusing and
>> adapting that code. Zapata has said he can help with the
>> producers.xml side of things and I'll try to find time to
>> do the templates / ssi side of things.
>
> given that it's been - 2,3,4? - years since the meeting where we
> agreed to have an aggregation site, and there has been virtually no
> change in mir in that time, i don't think it's unreasonable to use
> drupal. additionally, i remember drupal being discussed at that time
> as a possible alternative. another reason pro-drupal (and, against
> mir) is that it opens up 'tweaking' to many more people rather than
> having to continue our current (mir) reliance on just one or two
> individuals.
>
> thus, i support jimdog's current efforts in creating an aggregation
> site.
>
> solidarity,
>
>        --gdm
>
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