[Imc-wales] greetings/Network meeting report

[genny]

Hi everyone

Hi Davey - welcome to the group.

I was at the united kollectives network meeting in London on Saturday.  
The minutes aren't up yet, but should probably appear here soon:
http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/UkNetworkMeeting2008London

Anyway, we talked a bit about how to get a page for Wales on indymedia, 
and I made a proposal which was agreed by the network - although then it 
turned out that we might have more than one way of doing it...

The proposal was that we should set up a temporary page for Wales on the 
existing uk network, so that when anyone in Wales posts a report, they 
can tick Wales as well as uk.  That way, reports would appear on the 
main uk site as well as on our own page for Wales. We could also write 
our own features on major campaigns etc. in Wales and these would appear 
in the middle column. Given our current problem with getting 
translations done, this page would be English only at the beginning, but 
with a 'sticky' feature at the top explaining that we're trying to get 
more people involved including people who can translate, write reports 
and moderate in Welsh so we can develop a Welsh language interface too.

So that proposal was agreed.  However, there was also another proposal 
that we could consider, and that was that we contact the people who run 
indymedia.ie (Ireland) to see if it might be better to work with them.  
Given that we don't really have any techies (at last count) to get this 
working, we would need to ask whether they could support us with this, 
whether they have space to host our page on their servers and so on.  
Indymedia Bristol - not a million miles from Cardiff - also use the same 
system and will be able to offer some help. I'll try and make some more 
enquiries about this in the next week or two, but in the meantime, it 
would be good to have some feedback from people in Wales about this 
proposal.  I don't want to waste my time if people aren't keen or don't 
have the time to get involved.

Genny

Davidbarlow641 at aol.com wrote:
>  dreetings, well im davey,some of you allready no a little about 
> me,and hopefully i can be of some help,in our communitys and further a 
> field. regards dAvey
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