[New-imc] [meeting] proposal for a informal meeting on irc

[Petros Evdokas]

Hello Toya,
Thanks for the initiative.
I feel that all the issues you listed below are very important. But I 
think they ought to be discussed in email format, through which it's 
easier to follow the dialogue, and the record/archive is more clear.

If any dialogue occurs on irc, I would ask the participants to post a 
record of it on this list (and other lists, if appropriate).

Thanks!
Petros
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toya wrote:

> hi new-imc,
> no one replied to this meeting call, has beeing a week i sent it
> already, so I am thinking about sending this to communication and try to
> have this discussion there...

> Em Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 11:40:32AM -0700, toya escreveu:
> 
>>hi there!
>>This is a proposal for a meeting with the people involved with new-imc.
>>This meeting has no intention of making any decisions. But just share
>>thoughts and ideas related with the topics below. 

>>here is the summary of the thing:
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>>proposal:  meeting on irc.indymedia.org channel #new-imc at 3pm UTC -3
>>date:     setember 21th, friday.
>>Agenda: not a meeting to take any consensus or anything. But we propose
>>the group reflection on the following topic:
>>
>>New-IMC processes where:
>>
>>1. Local IMC's recieve a site before their process is over.
>>2. External help (person helping a collective pass through the new imc
>>process) become the liasson for the local imc's during the process.  
>>Leading to leave the local imc's without someone from the area who knows
>>other people in the network, knows how the communication in the network
>>works, knows what working groups exists in the network, what services
>>they provide, how to request something to them, how to participate on
>>them.  
>>3. How is this reflecting on our network: process that never gets a
>>resolution, no involvement of collectives on global processes and work,
>>lack of communication between groups resulting on lack of resources
>>being shared as well as knowledge and skills. 
>>4. Worst of all, the attacks issue, spam attacks and right wing attacks,
>>as well as lawsuits against indymedia. Where we can't contact the local
>>collectives, because there is no involviment in the network, know who to
>>contact would be a good help in these cases (specially the legal ones). 
>>
>>
>>a bunch of reasons why make this meeting: 
>>create spaces for free discussions where there is no intention to make
>>decisions but just to think about our work and our network is very
>>important. The experience of the payment-discuss list, where there was
>>nothing but the intention of discuss some situation and bring up a
>>proposal to the network, helps us reflect on our work and what we are
>>building here. 
>>The global imc network has beeing passing over a few problems, specially
>>with communication.  
>>New-imc working group has many experiences, and most people involved
>>here also follows other global processes. 
>>
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