[Imc-lwg-work] test. ignore.

[Richard Malter]

was http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-london-wg-general/2002-
January/000017.html


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              HOW TO GET INVOLVED IN IMC LONDON WORKING GROUP (LWG)!
             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 want to do we call a 'task'.

     
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 your group, and 
who must have a public email address for contacting. The coordinator must read 
the LWG <a href="http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-london-wg-
work/2002-April/000058.html". Charter], and say that they understand and agree 
to work according to it. 
It will later on also be the coordinator's responsibility to write and publish 
regular summaries of progress of work done in the group, and also to 
participate in decision-making between other groups in LWG, and outside of LWG. 

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 clear goals for your work that can be 
understood by everyone in LWG, how long you commit to continue your work, and 
how 
much notice you will give everyone in LWG if you decide to stop working for any 
reason you choose. 

An EXAMPLE:-

Jack and Jill decide to create and maintain a science section on the Indymedia 
UK website. 
Jill reads through the LWG Charter, makes sure she understands it and that she 
agrees to what it says. She begins as Coordinator and gives her email address 
as a contact. 
Then together Jack and Jill 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 elsewhere (becuase IMC UK is an 
 <a href="http://www.cat.org.au/maffew/cat/openpub.html"> Open Publishing </a> 
website not a forum for their writing); they decide to continue to run the 
science column for six months, give a summary of work done to the rest of LWG 
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 LWG. The important point to 
be checked is if the proposed work follows the Charter of LWG. 
	
	- if the rough consensus is "yes", then Jack and Jill can begin to work.

	- if the rough consensus is "there are problems", then the reasons will 
be clearly            explained, and the work can be modified and proposed 
again.


IMPORTANT NOTE!
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Your group can work on an unlimited number of different tasks if it chooses to,
but the whole of the procedure (*1 to *4) must be followed separately for each 
one of these tasks. 
Example: your group might run a science column and also fundraise: then the 
whole of 
the procedure (*1-*4) must be followed twice - once for each of the two 
tasks 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.