[IMC-Video] video.indy Editorial Team Proposal

[Sasha Costanza-Chock]

Hi all,
please see the following link or read the proposal (pasted below).
http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/ImcVideoDistributionNetwork#Editorial_Team_proposal

thanks,
schock

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  Editorial Team proposal
Schock: 2005.26.7: This is a formal proposal to create a 
video.indymedia.org editorial team. The proposal comes out of a meeting 
on video.indy at the 2005 Allied Media Conference in Bowling Green, 
Ohio, and a follow-up IRC conversation with Occam. The elements are as 
follows:

     * 1. Editorial team. We will formally establish an editorial team 
for video.indymedia.org. The editorial team will function according to 
your usual Indymedia principles (open, consensus, etc). The role of the 
editorial team is the same as that of the editorial team for any 
indymedia site: to go over the content posted and pulled to video.indy, 
to highlight exceptional content (create 'features'), and to hide spam 
(and probably porn and hate speech, pending creation of an editorial 
policy, see next point).
     * 2. Editorial policy. The first task of the Editorial team will be 
to write a short, clear, statement of editorial policy that will be 
posted in an easy to find place on video.indy. The editorial policy can 
be adapted from one of the many existing IMC editorial policies and 
should probably include some mention of how we will hide spam, porn, and 
hate speech. It should also mention licensing (copyleft, CC, GNU, etc. 
are all acceptable).
     * 3. Features. In the long run, many of us share a vision of 
features that would themselves be collectively edited videos featuring 
clips, samples, and entire docs pulled from the video wires. However, 
while there are a lot of great recent developments in web tools that 
will make this possible in the not so distant future, there's still a 
lot of coding to be done before it's possible. So for now, features will 
be based on the familiar indymedia feature format: a few sentences of 
text with an image and links. These features will describe and highlight 
fresh, interesting video content from the indymedia network.
     * 4. How to make the features. The editorial team will make 
features by editing a dedicated editorial feature page on the video.indy 
wiki. Occam will make an include script so that the text on this 
video.indy editorial feature wiki page is pulled to a startpage special 
that appears in a box at the top of video.indymedia.org. This will be 
ready in 2 weeks.
     * 5. Meetings. The editorial team will make a regular IRC / Skype 
meeting time, which will be posted in an easy to find spot on 
video.indy, so that people can get involved with the editorial team if 
they like. For now, the editorial team will also communicate via the 
mailing list imc-video AT lists.indymedia.org (if that becomes a problem 
we'll create a separate video editorial list) and in the chat room #ivdn 
(#video might be more intuitive) on irc.indymedia.org.