[Listwork] ROLL CALL

[Anthony]

Hi all,

After offering my services as a volunteer to help the listwork working 
group, I was advised by Alster to send a roll call to the listwork 
mailing list.
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/mmid/listwork/2006-0917-us
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/mmid/listwork/2006-1012-ze


ROLL CALL:
( as based on https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/WelcomeMessage )

1. Name / Nickname:
Anthony - If there's another Anthony, AnthonyG is fine

2. Region / IMC:
IMC Ireland - http://www.indymedia.ie

3. Languages Understood:
English   (and pieces of Gaelic, French, German)

4. Preferred working language:
English

5. Level of participation, interests, additional comments:

I've been involved with Indymedia Ireland as a newswire contributor in
2002. Since early 2003 I subscribed and lurked on the mailing lists 
before starting to contribute in a positive way and after a few months 
was accepted as a member of the current editorial collective.

Over the years, I've engaged in a wide range of work for Indymedia 
Ireland Internet Collective. I help moderate the newswire, put together 
front page features, respond to inquiries from others, co-admin the 
Irish mailing lists (though in the past it was a struggle to get others 
to actively participate in the work).

It was through my work as a list administrator that I became aware of 
the work done by the listwork volunteers and how understaffed they are. 
Running lists isn't very glamorous and I imagine that providing the 
global mailing list service and administering the list server is even 
less desirable a task people to get involved in.

I really like the mailman service provided by listwork and find it far 
better than  other list administration interfaces such as that of Yahoo 
groups or even the sympa software (as used by riseup.net). As Indymedia 
Ireland has had the benefit of this excellent service over the past five 
years, I thought it only fair that we give something back to the Global 
Indymedia community.

So far, with the exception of developing Oscailt (and providing some 
Oscailt support) the Irish Internet Collective have contributed very 
little to the global community. It states in our brand new constitution 
that "10.1 We will play a full part in the International Indymedia 
Network and participate in the work of the network." ( from the 
Constitution of the Indymedia Ireland Internet Collective as agreed at 
the October 2006 AGM - http://www.indymedia.ie/constitution )

In short, I think having a mailing list service as excellent as that 
provided by listwork is vitally important for transparency, facilitating 
decision making and providing a historical record of the activity of 
Indymedia collectives and working groups. I would like to be part of the 
solution and ease the workload of the current listwork volunteers.

-- 
Anthony
(One of the Indymedia Ireland volunteers)