[imc-finance] Ars Electronica Application

[clara]

thanks ski,
I think this is a good proposal
clara

At 03:31 26-3-2004, Brian Szymanski wrote:

>la traduccion al castellano llegará en unos minutos, tengan paciencia
>
>First, I would like to state that I too greatly appreciate the hard work
>that clara and rabble have put in to this application.
>
>I have mixed feelings about this application, but I was going to keep them
>to myself until it came to light that others also have concerns about
>this.
>
>Typically, at this point we would push our decision deadline back for more
>discussion, but the deadline for this application does not allow for such
>an action on our part (it would be the same as agreeing through inaction
>not to apply).
>
>Therefore I propose the following.
>
>- We submit the application to ars-technica before their deadline. - We
>announce a summary of the discussion here and in other places to the
>imc-process list.
>- We submit to the will of imc-process's decision making process to decide
>if we will to go through with the application. That is, if no IMC speaks
>up against the application, within one week of when the application is
>submitted, it cannot be withdrawn.
>- If an IMC does decide that accepting this money is a bad idea for the
>network, and their concerns cannot be reconciled within a reasonable
>timeframe, we resolve to inform ars-technica of our decision as soon as
>possible so they can avoid the embarrassment of potentially giving the
>award to us only to have us spit it back in their faces.
>
>I am not an empowered liason for any local IMC, but I would like to
>suggest a block on unilateral submission of the application without the
>approval of the entirety of the IMC network, not just the folks on
>imc-finance. Considering the timeframe of how this all happened, I don't
>think this is unreasonable, but I still apologize for the inconvenience to
>the supporters of this application (particularly those who did the nitty
>gritty of filling out the application!) who are now uncertain as to where
>it stands.
>
>Solid,
>Brian Szymanski
>bks10 at cornell.edu
>ski at indymedia.org
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