[Imc-wales] Draft minutes Indymedia Cymru/Wales Meeting/Cyfarfod (first half)

[Wrexham Veggies]

Thanks to Genny for organising the day, Kelvin and Mair for doing the
minutes and everyone who travelled to Wrexham for the meeting. Further to
what was said at the meeting I can offer a bit more help for the following
agenda item.

*> How will we get the site up and running*


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I'll be happy to help on the technical side of getting the site looking
right with style sheets etc. Just don't look to me for the creative side -
tell me how you want it to look and I'll do my best to try to make it happen
now I've got a bit of website design experience with the wrexham veggies
site ( www.wrexhamveg.org).



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On 05/02/07, Kelvin Mason < kjm04 at aber.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>  The Vic, Wrecsam, Saturday 3rd February, 1 pm
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> (Yn anfffordus, mae'r minute yn Saesneg yn unig,, Kelvin)
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> *Present*: Steve wmveg at wrexhamveg.org, Danielle ceridwen66 at hotmail.com,
> Mair lysbethmair at tiscali.co.uk, Rob Williams, Shiar shiar at riseup.net,
> Maurice SOCIALISTMOZZ at MSN.COM, Phunkee phunkee at aktiv.org, Lotte Reimer
> lotte.reimer at btinternet.com, Bob Maycock bobmaycock at yahoo.com, Kelvin
> kjm04 at aber.ac.uk
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>
> *Thanks*: To Wrecsam people for getting the meeting together, to Genny for
> lots of research and an excellent agenda, to Marc for stew and other people
> for lunch, and to Phunkee & Shiar for coming and advising…
>
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>
> *Agenda*
>
> •     Indymedia background and history
>
> •     A quick look at consensus decision-making
>
> •     How would a page for Wales link with the main United kollectives
> site?
>
> •     What do we want our page to look like? how are we going to achieve
> this?
>
> •     How are we going to make our part of the site bilingual and allow
> posts in Welsh?
>
> •     How will we get the word out to other people who may be interested
> in an Indymedia site for Wales?
>
> •     What will we call ourselves?
>
> •     Can we agree on a mission statement and editorial guidelines now?
> (at least provisionally)
>
> •     Who can help with the shared work of newswire cleaning (checking
> newswire and hiding articles which breach the editorial guidelines) and who
> can help with checking posts made in Welsh?
>
> •     Who is interested in writing features and articles?
>
> •     What other Indymedia projects could we get involved in? - indyradio,
> video, newsletters etc.
>
> •     How will we raise funds to cover our costs?
>
> •     AOB – forthcoming events to be covered
>
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> *Indymedia history*
>
> Dating from 1999 Seattle. 150 sites up within 2 years. All Independent
> Media Centre (IMC) sites run on same software. Highest number of national
> sites in US. UK site since 2000. Indymedia Uk stand for United kollectives.
> In 2007 9 regional IMCs. Bristol and Scotland not linked to IMC Uk but to
> the global network. Bristol, for example, has different editorial guidelines
> to IMC Uk. NB There is another independent media project for Wales
> 'IndyCymru' who apparently do not want to be connected either to Indymedia
> Uk or IMC globally. For more details see
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indymedia , follow links to IMC global and UK
> sites.
>
>
>
> *Consensus decision-making & meeting techniques*
>
> •     Meetings should be proposal driven.
>
> •     Signs for 'agree', 'direct response', 'technical point' etc *should*help minimise repetition and long-windedness.
>
> •     Blocking should be used a last resort when a decision is judged to
> be against the foundational principles of the meeting/group/kollective.
>
> •     The potential for manipulating even consensual meeting via cliques
> was acknowledged.
>
>
>
> *A page for Wales link on the main United kollectives site *
>
> •     Means being part of an English language site
>
> •     Indymedia Uk might require English translations of articles – but
> this could be contested within the kollective
>
> •     So, articles would have to be moderated in the language they were
> written in but not necessarily translated
>
> •     Articles posted on our page of the site in either Welsh or English
> would be moderated by us
>
> •     We need to make a commitment to maintaining a bilingually moderated
> site and supporting (likely) hard-pressed moderators
>
> •     Launching the site depends on getting enough Welsh & English
> speaking moderators
>
>
>
> *How the site could look*
>
> •     We can base it on a template for other area/regional/national pages,
> see for example http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/birmingham/
>
> •     Template (our home) page would have navigation (buttons) in the
> reader's chosen language (i.e. Welsh and English anyway)
>
> •     Articles would appear in the language they were written in (and
> possible translated into)
>
>
>
> *How will we get the site up and running*
>
> •     We can get techie support from Uk Indymedia
>
> •     We need to do outreach and particularly recruit moderators
>
> •     Could get a gathering together in South Wales with Gwent Anarchist,
> Cardiff Anarchist and/or Cynefin Y Werin
>
> •     If next meeting/training/workshop is Aberystwyth, accommodation is
> available
>
> •     We should individually join appropriate Indymedia UK mailing groups,
> especially 'features' and 'network') Follow links 'mailing lists' at bottom
> of homepage, 'local Europe' and scroll down to, say, 'Imc-uk-features',
> click on link and enter email address and password…
>
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