[Imc-finance] Summary of #finance discussion in 10/6 Global IRC

[Ilias]

In finance we discussed first the FF issue. The grant process has 
stopped, as Shacha explained, and is now over. Solidarity between imc's 
was more important than any money. Most agreed that the problem in this 
issue was bad communication, and noone is to be under doubt for their 
intentions. There was a concern on where the limits of receiving money 
is, in order not to jeopardize the autonomy and radicalism of the 
network. Eneryone agreed that local imc's are free to choose their 
funding sources, in sake of local autonomy.You can find a summary on 
the discussion regarding the FF grant here:
http://docs.indymedia.org/twiki/bin/view/Global/ImcFinance

The discussion was next turned on how we can work on more clear and 
participatory network-wide finance processes. The creation of some 
guidelines, on where to receive money from, was suggested. In general 
the need to improve process of IMC-finance was adrressed. People want 
summaries of the list's discussion because they can't keep up with all 
the e-mails. A good place to post these summaries could be imc-
communication.

the issue of Global south imc's participation in finance desicion 
making was especially mentioned. Most people from those imc's dont's 
understand english, and definitely don't have the same privileges when 
it comes to lists participation. So many people think that an effort 
should be made to help Global south imc's participate in finance 
process. It was suggested that some people, living in the "developed 
countries", could work as liasons with the South, translating summaries 
etc. 

People liked the idea of a strictly finance IRC meeting, in order to 
address those, and more, finance issues. Time and agenda to be 
discussed in the imc-finance list, and announced through the global 
lists (imc-communication, imc-commwork etc.)

Finally a reminder. Many people didn't know that IMC-Finance has a 
process and a summary. This process was already used to send money to 
SA-IMC during the Rio+10 summit, about one month ago. The running 
summary of imc-finance is here: 
http://kropotkin.indymedia.org/moin/moin.cgi/FinanceWorkingGroupSummary

Hope i didn't forget something :)
-- Ilias