[Imc-uk-process] distributed techmeet

[mish]

Hello

We discussed this at the Cambridge IMC meeting, and we're up for putting
some time into this and attending at least some of them.  

We can do all 3 Sundays (but not the first sunday in october).  (By the
way the dates below are wrong, the Sundays are actually 14th, 21st and
28th).  Also note that the anarchist bookfair is on the 27th.

And we'd definitely support one of the weekends being a full weekend of
discussion, ideally a network meeting.

Also had a quick poke about online and came across

Notes from last meeting
http://www.techmeet.org/txt/21AugMeeting_Notes
(more readable than the meeting log)

techmeet announce list
https://listas.sarava.org/wws/info/techmeet-announce

http://www.techmeet.org/txt/TechmeetContact
says how to get in touch via email or irc, and the organising list
http://listas.sarava.org/wws/info/techmeet

mish

On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 21:40 +0100, yossarian wrote:
> NOTE: just because the subject has the word "tech" in it does not mean
> it's just for geeks. 
> 
> As many of you know, there has been a (long-running) process underway to
> try and put together a coding effort to work on a new Indymedia cms. 
> This was kicked off last year during the techmeet in Sao Paulo, Brazil. 
> Many of you followed the resulting discussion on the imc-cms email list.
> 
> This year, the plan is for there to be a distributed techmeet (next year
> it will likely be in Bogota).  Accordingly, there will be meetings
> happening from 10-31 October 2007, every Sunday.  The idea is to video
> conference the meetings so that people from all over the place can
> participate.  Subjects for discussion and planning will include the new
> Indy CMS, and increased cooperation amongst IMC-affiliated tech
> collectives for mirroring, backups, etc.
> 
> So - how do people feel about getting together for 3 Sundays in a row
> (12, 19, 26 October) to participate in the distributed techmeet
> video-conferences?  From what I can understand, the idea of the
> distributed techmeet is to hold public events in places around the
> globe, possibly tying in with other events (i.e. the hackmeet taking
> place in San Francisco). If we wanted to, we could perhaps organize one
> full-weekend event in addition to the Sunday video-conferences, and
> invite people from around the UK to meet up and talk about both the code
> and the political possibilities inherent in the code (political
> strategies, etc) - so this is not just for geeks, as I said above.
> 
> The techmeet organizers will send more info when it becomes available. 
> The irc logs for the first planning meeting are at
> http://www.techmeet.org/txt/21AugMtgLog, and the next irc planning
> meeting for the event will take place september 4th at 1:30pm Sao Paulo,
> 9:30 am San Francisco, 6:30pm Netherlands (I assume that's 5:30 pm UK
> time). 
> 
> Yossarian
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