[imc-france-tech] help with getting consensus text on home page

[boud]

[fr]
 Je demande à kellan (qqn d'imc-tech) s'il pouvait nous aider à mettre
en place le compromis entre l'IMC IDF et les listes pour la page
principale du site.

[en]
Hi kellan,
   At the moment the list of people with the password to handle
france.indymedia.org is still mostly secret, and the one person who
seems to be using it is having technical problems as well as getting
pulled into a flame war, even though other people are starting to
accept that it's really quite possible to apologise for past remarks
that could have hurt people and get into construction rather than
the blame game...

Anyway, in this email:
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-france-tech/2002-July/000016.html

you can see my comments. While myself (and some others on the imc-france
list) are unhappy about the text written by the "IMC IDF":

« Le collectif (en formation) Indymedia ... »

because it tries to involve the reader in internal problems rather
than in encouraging them to organise, and it ends by making readers
feel they can do nothing other than wait until September, i'd rather
have the compromise solution of both the IMC IDF text *and* the
imc-france/imc-france-edito  consensus text:

« Chers toutes et tous,
  Indymédia est un projet tres ambitieux.  ... »

*both* on the page, but i also think it should be made readable by a 
wide range of browsers, including Netscape[34].* .

i'm cc-ing this to imc-france-tech, so it's clear it's not being done
secretly.

On the page:
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-france-tech/2002-July/000016.html

you can see a gzipped, uuencoded html file. It seems to me the
simplest thing would be simply to copy this into place (after
uudecoding and gunzipping, of course), though of course if you know
php maybe you can do something better.

i realise that getting non-local people to help should not be made
a general habit, but this is a bootstrap problem.

Right at the moment, people seeing the site are much more likely to
be discouraged than encouraged. By getting an encouraging, 
empowering text onto the site, maybe some more people with 
facilitating skills might get involved...

thanks,
boud