[Imc-lwg-general] user-friendly interface iNTERFACEv1.03

[Richard Malter]

I've put this up on
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-london-wg-general
as a temporary explanation.


iNTERFACEv1.03.txt

              HOW TO GET INVOLVED IN IMC-LONDON-WORKING GROUP (WG)!
             a user-friendly interface to the group's [link] Constitution :-)
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Choose any activity you like that contributes to the developing Indymedia 
network in London, the UK or the Republic of Ireland, or all of them at the 
same time. This can be technical, journalistic, photographic, artistic, legal, 
communication, finding a barn and painting it to do workshops in, fundraising, 
outreach, setting up a new project like web radio, TV, something printed, etc. 

     The work that you propose to do we have called a 'functional element'. 


To get this new work going, please follow this procedure: -


#1)  Form a group. A new group can be as small as one person and no limit on 
size.


##2)  Appoint a group Coordinator, who will act as delegate for the group, and 
who must have a public email address for contacting. The Coordinator must read 
the imc-london-wg Constitution [link], and say that they understand and agree 
to work by it. It will later on also be the Coordinator's responsibility to 
write and publish regular summaries of progress of work done, and participate 
in decision-making between groups. 

Being a group Coordinator might become a lot of work, but the position can 
later pass from one person to another within the group. The important thing is 
that there is always a working Coordinator.

###3)  Decide on three things: defined goals for your work that will be 
measurable by everyone, how long you commit to continuing your work, and how 
much notice you will give everyone if you decide to stop working for any 
reason. 

AN EXAMPLE:-

Jack and Jill want to work on a science column on the Indymedia UK website. 
Jill reads through the imc-london-wg Constitution, makes sure she understands 
it, and that she agrees to what it says. Jill begins as Coordinator and gives 
her email address as a contact. Then together they decide on their work goals: 
putting together two articles a month; that they will source the material from 
the Newswire on the website and from invited contributors (becuase this is an 
Open Publishing [link] website not a forum for their writing); and that Jill 
having the tech skills will post the articles online to the website. Lastly 
they decide to continue to run the science column for six months, give a 
summary of work done each month, and to give a month's notice if they decide to 
quit before then.


####4)  What happens next is that the proposed work is considered by roughly 
all those people/groups already doing other work in imc-london-wg. The 
important point to be checked is if the proposed work follows the constitution 
of imc-london-wg. 
	
	- if the rough consensus is "yes", then just go ahead.

	- if the rough consensus is that there are some significant 
discrepancies between the proposed work and/or process 	and the constitution of 
imc-london-wg, then the reasons will be clearly given, and the proposed work 
can be 		modified and presented again to get the 'go ahead'.

In the case of the example of Jack and Jill above, having given the information 
in the example, they would just get on and work. 


PLEASE NOTE!
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You're group can work on an unlimited number of different activities it wants 
[above we called these 'functional elements], but the whole of the procedure 
(#1-#4) must be followed (separately) for each one of these activities. 
Example: your group might run a science column and fundraise: then the whole of 
the procedure (#1-#4) must be followed twice - once for each of the two 
activities of fund-raising and setting up the science column.


ANY QUESTIONS? please send a mail to: imc-london-wg-general@lists.indymedia.org


HOPE YOU GET INVOLVED SOON.