[Imc-india] Site Revamp

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the MIR community is very dynamic (has been for a while, and it seems to
be growing!). www.indymedia.org.uk went trhough a long process of
migration from MIR, which is "well" documented:
http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/ActiveToMir
http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/UkMirWebDocs

There are many helpful people in both the MIR coding/developing and in
the maintenance/user areas.

It could be good if you joined the MIR network. The more the merrier.

Find the active developers etc. on IRC:

irc.indymedia.org #mir - and in irc.indymedia.org #uk

Please ask anything you want. Note that I do not have any technical
skills in the area of MIR or programming generally, but I have followed
the whole process which has been unfolding in parallel with the
transformation of www.indymedia.org.uk from a single-collective based
website, run by a group of volunteers in London to a new fully fledged
network with contributing and collaborating collectives (IMCs) all over
this island (England, Scotland, Wales etc.).

This been an amazing process; Germany established the model for
collaborative website maintenance in a network of autonomous collectives
within Indymedia, as far as i recall.

Hopefully in India there is scope for some sort of networking as well.
Have you been in touch with corpwatch india? or perhaps some of the
Bhopal groups, or the Dam movement?

Just trying to help the best I can.. I have a soft spot for India ;)

all the best of luck and wishes,

in solidarity,

/martin - lancaster & uk imcs
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On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 09:25, Vickram Crishna wrote:
> At 7:58 +0000 22/11/2003, /m wrote:
> >hi!
> >have you considered the possibilities of contacting lists like:
> >
> >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-general
> >
> >http://gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo
> >
> >http://www.tivea.net/LUG_India.php
> >
> >The free software movement and indymedia has a long happy history
> >together ;)
> 
> Thanks... it seems to be a decision relating to publishing, and there 
> are a limited number of choices, not to mention the sad lack of time, 
> which has happened largely because I believe indymedia was working to 
> avoid this situation for as long as possible.
> 
> The current software is called Active, but there are no persons at 
> indymedia willing to continue its support.
> 
> The options are Mir, SF-Active and Dada. The Mumbai group already 
> uses Dada, but it is currently very silent, and we do not have any 
> contacts responding from amongst the moderators or list managers.
> 
> The feedback we have got from other indymedia people is that Mir is 
> the most workable of all these choices, given that one day we hope we 
> will have a truly representational and flourishing media site, 
> supporting multiple languages and multiple sub-entities.
> 
> If there are any opinions to the contrary, please let us know asap so 
> we can discuss it out with our friends at indymedia. I have 
> separately been recommended another publishing software, Plone. 
> However, we simply do not have the freedom to consider this choice. 
> Maybe one day when we can have our own servers, we can evaluate what 
> direction we want to take on this, but for the moment, this is what 
> we have.