[Imc-wales] greetings/Network meeting report

[Kelvin Mason]

Still keen, Genny, whichever technical route we go - I do like the idea of
liaising with Bristol and/or Ireland, there something neighbourly about
that...

 

When we do get a Wales page, I'm very willing to write 'middle column'
features on Ffos-y-Frân (climate change, open-cast coal mining
) and St
Athan Military Academy


 

Just back from a Ffos-y-Frân action, see
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7408875.stm 

 

Pob hwyl

 

Kelvin

 

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: imc-wales-bounces at lists.indymedia.org
[mailto:imc-wales-bounces at lists.indymedia.org] On Behalf Of genny
Sent: 20 May 2008 07:09
To: imc-wales at lists.indymedia.org
Subject: Re: [Imc-wales] greetings/Network meeting report

 

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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