[imc-uk-emergency] irc meeting and 'other regions'

[Sara Melendro]

Hello,
 
It seems that in the last irc meeting people decided no to include the 'other regions'  section because they didn't see the need for it. This was discussed in the meeting in Lancaster and people agreed to it. As I was the one who originally propose it ( in that lancs meeting) I would like to remind people and put forwards for those who weren't there why I thought it was important.
 
My main reason to have an 'other regions' is to be used by all those people (both indymedia people without linked region, and activists putting reports, etc) who do not belong to any of the regions who have their local indymedia. The idea of sending al the stuff from not-listed regions to the uk page (which seeme to be the alternative) does not seem all that good to me, since every region deals with two 'types' of reports: 
--those they considered relevant to 'spread' more, and therefore they sent to UK page
---and those whith a much more 'local flavour' who they put on their own pages  
 
Sections who are not listed, need (i believe) a place to put their 'local' stuff. Sending every and any kind of reports, news, etc to the UK site will put in uk site items which are not relevant for the kollective as a whole, and publishing local actions will present a problem (you either send them to uk where is definitly not appropiate or don't send them anywhere-which makes these areas even more invisible).
 
I think having an 'other regions' will make it much easier. then if I want to report on sth in exeter whihc I do not considered so importanta s to go to uk but still want to report I could put it there, and at the same time if I'm looking to see whats happening in my area i can go directly to 'other regions' and check. 
Why does it sound good to have sheffield/lancaster/london, etc sites and know one link in Uk page where other regions can have theri 'local' stuff (it might even be grounds for further developing other local groups!).
 
well, i hope i have explain my point here mroe or less understandable to everyone. An just to finnish I have one more issue to raise, is more a question really, it came to me in relation to this topic but it's not about it specifically. It's about taking decison geenrally in Indymedia, how exactlt do we go about it?. If the issue of 'other regions' (and this is only an example) was discussed in lancaster and agreed on, and then is discussed again in irc and a different decision is taking there, etc, how and when exactly are imc decisons decisive? I'm using that example coz is the only one I have, not asking specifically about it, just not sure how the process goes, is there an agreement on this, or do we just make it as we go along? obviously different people is able to participate in diff. discusions (and those in irc might not have been in lancs, and viceversa) and that i guess makes it harder, but just want to ask what's the procedure here? do we have one?
 
well, i'd leave it here for now, hope to get some input from people.
cheers,
sara.
 




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