[Imc-uk-process] Indymedia UK Fork

[bristol at indymedia.org]

Hi,

As you may (or may not) know here in the UK there has been an ongoing
conflict as to what UK Indymedia is (or is not). For years now it has not
been possible to find a resolution for this conflict. Thanks to
facilitation of the discussion by a third party, Seeds for Change, we came
to an agreement that the two positions within UK Indymedia were best to go
their separate ways. The core of this agreement is to halt UK Indymedia on
the 1st May 2011 and fork it into 2 new projects. One is called “Mayday”
and the other is called “Be The Media”. Be The Media is formed from a
number of former UK Indymedia volunteers and the collectives of Bristol,
London, Nottingham and Indymedia North. This email is written by volunteers
of the Be The Media group.

We’re approaching the 1st of May and so wanted to let you know that we are
heading towards this date and that we plan to split as per the agreement.
The split will consist of archiving the UK Indymedia site and putting a
splash page on indymedia.org.uk and uk.indymedia.org, linking to the
archive of Indymedia UK and to the new Mayday and Be The Media sites.

It is also our position that UK Indymedia will be not tenable after the
1st May other than as the archived site and a forked site allowing each
position to run new sites as they see fit, as nobody can agree on how to
run UK Indymedia.

Thanks