[Imc-india] anyone interested in setting up imc in Bangalore

[Vickram Crishna]

At 11:14 PM -0700 4/14/04, cnr pellacuru wrote:
>I just joined this list yesterday. IMC is a great concept. They say 
>all politics is local. Any plans to setup an imc in Bangalore. Or 
>there seems to be some plan of having sections in imc-india. I can 
>volunteer.

Terrific. It is not hard to get started informally, and work up to a 
state of being a formal Bangalore based indymedia.

fyi, last year, the main indymedia servers had to migrate to new 
machines, at which point the platforms were also upgraded - we had a 
choice of new systems, none of which any of us were knowledgeable 
about. Anyway, after consultations, we chose a system called Mir, 
because it has the promise of support for non-Roman scripts, and it 
also has some sort of easy way to run subgroups.

 From the administrative point of view (the global indymedia gives us 
hosting resources) it is a good way to encourage local indymedia to 
find an identity for themselves, working with fairly clever 
technology to create a base for independent news reporting, together 
with media activism in Bangalore.

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Vickram