[imc-wellington] W(i)ndy minutes November meeting

[Danyl Strype]

Windymedia meeting
Wed 14/11/2007

Present: Ken, Kerry, Strypes, Sam, Katie, Andy (observing)

Agenda:

Aotearoa Newsreal
New volunteers
Film night
Films
Finances
Next W(i)ndy
VBC Radio show
hits on AIM site

New Volunteers

Katie and Kerry will look into organizing a skillshare for html  
skills. Welcome to Sam, Kerry and Katie who are getting involved.  
There has been a good response to Asher's callout on the AIM site with  
a few new eds being trained.

Aotearoa Newsreal

Windy has offered to fund purchase of blank DVDs and other costs so  
Asher can reproduce these. Funds from sales of the DVD to support the  
Urewera 17. Will be distributed widely.

Last Film Night

Turnout for Road to Guantanamo a bit sad. No word on whether we get  
any funds out of it yet.

Next Film Night

Possibilities for next film night (February?):
Invisible Children (55 mins) about child soldiers in Africa. Arty but good.
Shorter film about indigenous people affected by nuclear power  
(35min). Bit amateur?
Escape From Suburbia (feature length) – follow up to End of Suburbia

Film night not until Feb 2008 because attendance slows down at the end  
of the year.

Strategy – becoming the source of radical films in Wellington that  
will not be otherwise available.

Discussion of Indymedia film nights relationship with Cross film  
night. Overlap in subject matter, but quite different audience.

Advertising – Film Archive advertise on their lists. Ken emails to  
other interested email lists (anarchism, indymedia).

Networking

Discussion of connections, bringing smaller groups together on  
activities that they share an interest in.

Finances

$407 in the bank. This months W((i))ndy cost $110 because double  
issue. Previous months $40. Possible money coming in from Septembers  
film night.

Next W(i)ndy

Aiming for 28th release date. Ken has been doing it single-handed,  
mostly derived from website content. Other volunteers who can use  
Freehand are welcome. Collate articles from website, mostly feature,  
with local/national/international if possible. Layout with pictures in  
Pagemaker. Also a role in helping with photocopying and distro. Sizes  
of images has become a problem because some are too small/lo-res for  
print media.

If you wanna help get in touch with Ken.

Currently in Freehand. Could it be moved to Open Office or another  
open source product? It'd be easier for contributors.

VBC Radio show

Happening every Thursday, Ali and Mark are looking after it. They   
source most of their material from the AIM site. Do Ali and Mark want  
help with the show from other members of the collective?

hits on AIM site

What information can we get about the AIM site?

Google analytics ruled out, as providing information to Google is  
unacceptable.

Need to investigate if we have a log analyser, and if not, what  
analyser would be best for AIM.

Next meeting

Wednesday 12th December (2nd Wednesday of the month), 7pm Oblong.

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