[Italy-process] [Fwd: [New-imc] imc toscana APPLICATION DEADLINE 25 march 11 pm]

[Alice]

vi giro questa mail arrivata a new-imc da joe, l'"osservatore" del network
che sta seguendo il process toscano.
e' il form di richiesta di apertura di toscana.indymedia.org (che deve
prima passare da new-imc, con una deadline di 3 giorni per eventuali
commenti/domande/richieste di modifica, poi viene girata da imc-process
con deadline di una settimana; passato anche questo vaglio il nuovo imc
puo' aprire ufficialmente)
credo sia piuttosto interessante per chi lavora ai nuovi imc.
qui la traduzione della policy
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/cmi-toscana/2007-March/0315-ri.html

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Subject: [New-imc] imc toscana APPLICATION DEADLINE  25 march 11 pm
From:    "joe" <joe.ttx a blablaxpress.org>
Date:    Thu, March 22, 2007 10:16 pm
To:      new-imc a lists.indymedia.org
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ey new-imc

[proposed new-imc IMC toscana]
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/new-imc/2006-December/1224-9h.html



I'm happy to forward the documents of IMC Toscana [below].

here the site test:
http://toscana.indivia.net/

i'm think toscana is ready

in solidarity

joe



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Membership Criteria
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a. Agree in spirit to the NIMC MissionStatement and PrinciplesOfUnity,

:: We remind you that most of us come from the italian indymedia
node experience, so we well know the various network principles and
policies and we agree with them.

b. Have a committed membership substantial enough to sustain a
functional IMC

:: Actually our collective is constituted by 23 persons. Each one
have experiences in and knowledges of ICT, journalism, photo and
video making. Most of us have managed, until november 2006, the
old Tusacny category on the italy.indymedia.org site, so, borne out
of years of experience, we think we are quite able to maintain a new
node.

c. Have open and public meetings (no one group can have exclusionary
"ownership" of an IMC)

:: We live in different cities around Tuscany, we have different
political point of view (though we all fights for themes like
ecology, antifascism, antisexism, animal rights, antimafia,
individual and collective rights and internationalism) and we are
activists in different groups and associations. We have in mind to
organize meetings and workshops in places where anybody interested
might partecipate. We are also planning to organize such an
"indyTour" all over Tuscany and tech workshop to share (among us and
with other people too) technical information on how indymedia works
and on how a project of independent information could work.

d. Work toward developing a local Mission Statement or Statement of
Purpose. Network Mission Statement may be adopted or used on an
interim basis

:: We have already discussed and written such document.
that will be sent to you together with this one.

e. Establish and publish an editorial policy which is developed and
functions through democratic process, and with full transparency

:: We agree with the democratic process and the transparency; the
policy should be the same as the old Italy node, with some tweaks.
We have written a "policy document" that you'll recieve together with
this
one. Moreover we will publish all our documents on our new web site
as soon
as it will be on line.

f. Agree to the use of Open Publishing as described in the NIMC
Editorial Policy [editorial collective comments: "We did agree that
the term "Open Publishing" was one that is still being defined by the
Global Network Collective, and we would wait and see what the results
were before rewriting this criteria]

:: We are planning to use a CMS with this feature in our future web
site. Moreover we consider Open Publishing the core of an indymedia
project.

g. Adopt a decision-making policy that is in alignment with consensus
  principles which include open, transparent and egalitarian processes

:: We agree with this kind of decision-making policy, and we actually
have
been using it even in the old local Tuscan Indymedia group. We agree
with the
consensus principles.

h. Have a spokesperson(s) willing and capable of participating in the
global decision-making process and meetings as a rotating liaison/
representative, with a clear understanding of the responsibilities
that come with this role,

:: Some of us are already enrolled on some global network mailing
lists, and someone will soon subscribe the imc-process mailing list.

i. Participate in the key IMC Network Communication Methods that
pertain to the health and vitality of the Network and that contribute
to the work of the IMC. Assure that at least one person from your
local IMC participates at any given time on the [[http://
lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-communication][IMC-
Communication]] list,

:: Someone will soon subscribe the imc-communication mailing list.

j. Have no official affiliation with any political party, state or
candidate for office (comments: but individual producers have freedom
to do whatever they like and local IMCs can "feature" stories about
various political parties and initiatives),

::None of us is directly involved in political party activities, none is
nor has been candidated for office, so that our group is completely
free from
every kind of parties influence.

k. IMCs shall in no way engage in commercial for-profit enterprises.
[We could add: The IMCN is committed to the decommercialization of
information and will disassociate from any local IMC that decides to
become a for profit media corporation.]

:: Our collective is self-managed and self-financed.

l. Display a "local version" of the IMC "i" logo on your website and
literature.

:: We will do it in our future web site and in our printed documents.

m. Include the IMC Network current "Cities List" on your site,
preferably on the front page.

:: We have written this in the mission statement too.


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cmi-toscana (centro media indipendente - toscana)

"cmi-toscana" is a project of a group of persons who share the basic
principles
and the methods of Indymedia Network.

The main "cmi-toscana" purposes are, rated by importance:

1) give to voiceless individuals and groups a media to let them be able
to report directely news and stories censored, hidened or distorted by
mainstream media;

2) give to voiceless individuals and groups the technical knowledge
to create
their own independent media that could become part of cmi-toscana;

3) report, even individually, news and stories censored, hidened or
distorted
by mainstream media;

4) operate as an archive to find documents otherwise quickly
overflowed by
mainsream media flow

Those purposes will be achieved mainly by a web site management that
will be
a collector of informations and (in)formative situations organized in
real
life.

The management of this project will be done in an assembly way usingÂ
electronic communication tools (mailing lists, irc, instant
messaging, etc...) as well by means of periodical meetings opened to
all the interested people.

The structure of the group is configured in an horizontal
way and the decision making method used will be
similar to the consensus method, in other words decisions will be
taken unanimously and/or without explicit and motived vetoes.

Due to the mailing lists technical and relational characteristics, we
consider the active participation an obligation that everyone
voluntarily accept as long as subscribes to the mailing list. The
list will have public archives to everyone via web.

There are many levels of activism related to Indymedia Toscana. The
first one
consist in publishing on the web site news and articles telling
stories that
otherwise would be ignored. To partecipate more actively, people
should agree
with this Mission Statement and with the policy, subscribe the
mailing list,
partecipate in the web site management and to the meetings organized.

Someone who would become admin of the site should, beside all the things
written above, have working in the list for a period, have
partecipated in a
live meeting and attempted a workshop on how to manage the web site.

All admins are expected to apply the policy consensually stated by the
activists.

The web site would be totally autonomous as well as a part of
an italian geographic network.

The web site will be divided in various parts that will at least
include: an informative area mainly cured by the management group, an
agenda and a newswire both based on open publishing. On the web pages
there
will be the list of the other nodes of the global Indymedia network.

The web server will be hosted outside Italy and will be
shared with other African and Asian IMCs. The server's cost will be
divided
between Toscana-imc and Switzerland-imc, while the technical
management will be shared between all the imcs hosted on the server
and coordinated through a specific mailing list.


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Policy
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The newswire

Newswire is the mixed blessing of Indymedia, and most of the problems
have
been generated by posts published. But the newswire is, in a sense,
the heart of the project and then a very important aspect of the way of
making indymedia is related to how the newswire itself is managed and
how it
works.

Choosing the open publishing philosophy, entails the possibility to
have a
newswire in which everyone can freely write, getting a later, i.e.
that a post
can be hidden, edited or deleted only after having been published.

There's a techincal way of facing newswire problems, based on the way
in which
the useres benefite the site. Knowing that there are standard way of
accessing
to web pages, it's possible to implement solutions to highligth some
things
instead of others.

We have decided to divide the newswire in more than one "section",
according
to the kind of post published, highlighting those that the managing
lists
considers more useful for the project of independent information.

With "policy" we mean the criterias we use to "hide", "edit" and
"delete" a
post published on the newswire:

- "to hide" means to move a post among the hidden posts;

- "to edit" means to change the text of the published post;

- "to delete" means to erase the post from the database.

Everyone who can work on the newswire can "hide", "edit" and "delete" a
published post.
They just have to follow some rules before doing this:

a) respect the policy;
b) discuss with the others when in doubt on what to do.

Hidden posts are, in the opinion of the newswire admins, those that
violate
the policy of toscana.indymedia.org. Hidden posts will remain
available to
read (even if not immediately visible).
This allows everyone to point out any error that can be, in this way,
corrected.

In some cases it's possible to edit the text of published posts:
- when there are "sensitive" data such family names, addresses,
telephone
numbers or any other private
information relating to persons who don't hold offices or who aren't
involved
in show business.
- when editing is required by the author of the post, i.e when we can
be quite
sure that the request comes
from the author.
- when some "legal backing" suggests to edit a post that could demage
persons
or the site itself.

There are three kinds of "deleted" posts:
- double posts;
- "deleted" posts for extraordinary reasons concerning legal or security
problems;
- multimedia files out fo policy.
We won't save any backup copy of these posts.

We consider the policy criteria not such as the "Tables of Law", but
more like
a kind of filter that could have some leaks. In other words, policy
should be
used with cleverness and may, during times, undergo some necessary
changes.

these are the criteria according to which a post is considered out of
policy:
- fascist posts
- sexist posts
- posts about party and istitutional canvass
- religious canvass posts
- posts with photos in which people are identifiable
- posts unuseful for the porject (no info)
- double posts

Despite of this, we are consciuos that there aren't (and there never
would
be)objective criteria to decide what is in and what is out of policy.
This
means that "critical" posts should be discussed, case by case,
even without caring to much about policy, that, we repeat, is not a law!

Policy toscana.indymedia.org (march 2007)





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