[alt-media-res] imc uk chronology

[Marion Hamm]

Hi Zoe,
additions of any kind would be great! Especially on the video side, I 
haven't included much.
How do we organise additions from multiple people, how do we make sure 
that in the end, we have one master document with all entries included?

I suggest that we agree on a mix of naming conventions and traces in the 
document itself.

The most updated version with all entries is presently: 
imc_uk_history_28Apr06
If you add things to this version, you could call your document 
imc_uk_history_28Apr06_zoe.
If I add things to this version, I would call it 
imc_uk_history_28Apr06_marion.

We could add a column "by whom" at the end, and enter our names for each 
new entry.

When a number of people have added new entries, we can bring them all 
together in a new "master document" called imc_uk_history_15May06, for 
expl. We can do this by activating autofilter in the "by whom" column of 
each document (imc_uk_history_28Apr06_zoe, imc_uk_history_28Apr06_marion 
etc), copy all the entries with a name, and paste them into the old 
master document imc_uk_history_28Apr06 which is then saved as 
imc_uk_history_15May06.

This way, we don't need to coordinate who works on the spreadsheet when 
- everybody can just add things when they occur. If anyone has a simpler 
idea, please say so.

best
marion


zoe wrote:

>hey great work!
>looking really interesting and getting to be clear
>what is status of this now - I mean, can anyone add or improve bits?
>for example, at first glance, i could think of adding conscious cinema's
>involvement at backspace for june 18th,
>and the imc indian film fest at rampart in early 2005,
>soo.... would I just add them in on a wiki or send suggestions to marion or
>what???
>cheers all
>xz
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>From: "Marion Hamm" <marion.hamm at gmx.net>
>To: <alt-media-res at lists.aktivix.org>
>Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 11:46 PM
>Subject: [alt-media-res] imc uk chronology
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>>Hi,
>>Here are the beginnings of an imc uk chronology as proposed and agreed.
>>The categories I used have been checked with Steffen and Andre.
>>This version of the imc uk chronology spreadsheet is still quite London
>>centered, partly because this is where the indymedia project in the UK
>>started, and partly due to my involvement in this location. Therefore,
>>this spreadsheet does not give you the full "storyline", as andre said
>>in a different mail. I don't know what your questions and your approach
>>for the imc uk history are, so I collected entries that are seen as
>>important within the imc uk network. It is a selection, not a complete
>>archive. An account of the imc uk history would need to clearly show the
>>decentralised character of the network.
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>>In the wiki (under project organisation chronology proposal), I defined
>>clearly what notion of imc uk i am using. Since I am under the
>>impression that this project uses a much wider definition of imc uk, you
>>might want to add data about people, groups and projects who post to,
>>read and appear on indymedia (this could become a great history of
>>certain social movements in the uk!) For an alternative media timeline,
>>you'd probably want to include all video and radio groups that produce
>>alternative media, the wealth of activist blogs and a multitude of other
>>alternative media makers.
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>>I include a break-down of the categories I used. I've tagged the
>>spreadsheet with a creative commons licence, attributions should be made
>>to imc uk. The indymedia wiki docs.indymedia.org is currently down, so
>>some links might not be accessible. As soon as it is up again, I will
>>upload the spreadsheet to it.
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>>best
>>Marion
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>>----START CATEGORIES---
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>>Some of the Columns are searchable with Autofilter or "Sort", others
>>include open content. They have been chosen with possible use by the
>>"United Kollektives" in mind. You can add your own categories to code
>>the entries according to your research needs (and of course add or
>>delete entries, regroup them etc).
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>>date - searchable. date of event
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>>event - content. description of event
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>>Sources - content. ...to make it quotable. URL, notes, interviews...
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>>References pub. - content. published references (for cross referencing.
>>For expl, there will be articles to quote about the European Social
>>Forum etc.)
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>>Comments - quotes from websites in question, more info than in the
>>"event" column. Sometimes reminders to check dates etc.
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>>Location - searchable. Where did it take place? Online events might have
>>a server or a list as location, I found "cyberspace" not specific enough.
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>>Imc Group involved - searchable. To code the activities of local groups,
>>so that it is possible to see their activities at first glance.
>>Sometimes there will be more than one group - don't know how to handle
>>that yet. It's also complicated because many things happen without a
>>named group doing them. For expl, many imc video screenings in London
>>are being organised by the same bunch of people from the imc-london
>>collective, but not everybody from the imc-london collective is
>>involved, and some people who are involved might not participate in the
>>imc-london meetings or mailing lists. I'd code the London imc screenings
>>as imc-london (but they are not listed yet), then see what those
>>involved say.
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>>Category of Event - searchable. I've tried to assign a single category
>>to each event: Collaboration, Context, Decentralisation, Event (mainly
>>real space events, online stuff tends to be coded as Reporting), Global
>>Network (the global imc network), Location (Stuff that i only included
>>because it gives a sense of the "real space" location. could also be
>>listed as "meeting"), Mailing lists (shows the growing of the uk
>>network), Meeting (will include the imc network meetings), Mobilisation
>>(entries about big demos and mobilisations), New Group (when I could
>>identify a date for a new group that positions itself within the imc uk
>>network), Physical imc (when a real-space access point or imc was set
>>up), Print (there will be more entries, printed material is v
>>important), Reporting (this could also be seen as "web-event" or "web
>>action". It is more than just posting one report.), Repression (couldn't
>>think of a better name, but found it important to include for it shows
>>what indymedia collectives have to deal with. There is a much longer
>>list, I included those cases that I found in the imc uk features, but
>>not complete), website (the development of the various imc websites in
>>the UK (3 today) is crucial for the collectives who are looking after
>>them, important markers referred to in conversations).
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>>Media used - searchable. This is tricky, because often there is more
>>than one medium being used. But if they are entered in exactly the same
>>order each time, this column can be used for searching.
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>>Collaborations specific - content. I haven't entered much here, you can
>>look at the sources provided to see who collaborated.
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>>----END CATEGORIES---
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