[Imc-africa] www.indy migration announcement

[clara]

IMC's and Indymedia Activists,

The server which has been hosting many indymedia sites, stallman, is losing 
its net connection on Monday the 15th of December. Over the last two months 
we, indymedia techies, have been working to move all the remaining 
indymedia sites to other servers. In the process every site has been 
upgraded to new indymedia software including mir, sfactive, and dadaimc 
depending on the preference of the local indymedia center. The last and 
biggest site to move is the global or network site, www.indymedia.org.

We are upgrading www.indymedia.org to new software when we move it to a new 
server, Edna. The server, located in New York, is named after a New York 
anarchist poet. The site also will have a database hosted on a new server 
named after Noam Chomsky.

For technical reasons we were unable to upgrade the site while maintaining 
the old active software which we have been using for 4 years. There was a 
discussion on the imc-tech, www-features, and www-migration list and it was 
decided to switch to the mir system. Mir will allow more scaleability, 
better management of the features publishing process, and multilingual support.

The new site will go live before Monday the 15th of December. It will have 
all the functionality of the old site, but it will not have the same design 
and it will not work in exactly the same way. For example, people will now 
be able to comment directly to features on the site, and publish versions 
of the features in languages other than english.

You can see the new site as it evolves at http://wwwdev.indymedia.org/en/

Please note that it's an evolution, we are working very hard to keep the 
site up and working through the transition. Feedback and design help would 
be appreciated, but right now we need to just make it work.

in solidarity,
the www-migration geeks