[New-imc] Mayday IMC

[Bartolomeo]

Hello,

I have more time now and so I'd like to respond in more detail. I think it's 
necessary for a collective which wants to go through the new-imc process to 
document its organisational status and progress. There are different ways to do 
this, the most common are public mailing lists and wikis. I'd like to ask BTM 
to help the Mayday's new-imc process by documenting it in more detail.

IMC linksunten, for example, documented its one year new-imc process in 
numerous Indymedia articles [1] and a public wiki [2]. (I mention this because 
you asked for an example and I am part of this IMC, not because I want to 
suggest that this is the only or the best way to do it.) Only after we've been 
affiliated to the Indymedia network we started to work on a website. So it's not 
a prerequisite to have a website before going through the process, as the new-
imc process is mainly about organising.

I see that you are in a hurry but I'd like ask you to slow down a bit. The 
structure of your collective, your way to make decisions, the way you work is 
not transparent as you have documented nearly none of your f2f nor your IRC 
meetings. I think it's a better and more solid way to first organising and 
documenting the progress and then becoming part of the network. It also helps 
new people to get in touch with your collective if they can find a well 
documented history of your IMC. The new-imc guide that smush mentioned [3] 
really helped us to form a collective.

I still think that the wiki Sheffield maintains [4] is a really bad example of a 
wiki documenting a new-imc process as it focuses on conflicts rather than 
progress. I think the wiki and the reactions to the criticism show a blatant 
lack of solidarity. As I learned that members of the Sheffield collective are 
also members of the Mayday collective I'd like to ask the Mayday collective on 
its point of view about this issue.

Ciao, Bart


[1] http://de.indymedia.org/2008/09/226255.shtml
[2] https://www.autonome-antifa.org/imc
[3] http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/new-imc/2011-April/0401-x7.html
[4] http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/new-imc/2011-January/0122-lv.html