[CIMC-working] Midwest collaboration / madison guy

[Ian Bicking]

On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 12:32, Elizabeth Fraser wrote:
> Ian, Should we take the initiative on this and start taking
> the pulse of other midwest indies, or indy wannabes?

Nathan contacted a Kristine <kfk_imc@yahoo.com> who was interested in
this, and asked her to forward some more of her ideas.  We could
probably wait on that.

> As I've mentioned before, there's a Bloomington-Normal indy
> not even on the main list and I know of some eager folks
> in southern Illlinois (down Carbondale way)--and we've had
> a few quereies from Milwaukee in the past...  I'd say the
> more open and exploratory the format, the less reason for 
> stopping the process before it starts.  So I'd suggest
> that it shouldn't be only folks who would want to be on
> a say, same server as chicago or madison, right now, only--or 
> any similar limitation?  There are many forms of collaboration
> the midwest could benefit from...

Yes, helping local new IMCs is definitely that would work well
geographically.  With more IMCs there's also more overlap in news, and
so other potential collaboration.

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