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

[ionnek]

Hi Sara,
thanks for mailing!

just to see if I got it right:
You propose to have a page "other regions" along with the regional imcs
and a link to it from the regional topics list?

We need to make a distinction between newswire content and middle column 
content, in mir terminology these would be "article types".
every newswire posting goes automatically to the big uk newswire on the 
startpage. And it  appears on those regional newswires that have been 
ticked when it was published.
features is different. To make a feature appear on a middle column, you 
have to have the password to enter the admin page.
So we would need to find someone or a group to look after the "other 
regions" middle column.

If we wouldn't have a regional topic "other regions", all the newswire 
postings would still go up on the uk startpage, and, if the poster decides, 
also on other regional imcs. Features on local issues from "other regions" 
would go on whatever imc group decides to put them on.

...just to clarify - I personally can live with either option.

Ionnek




At 15:02 14/05/03, Sara Melendro wrote:
>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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