[IMC Bombay] BANGALORE (saying hello)

[Jay]

Hi Jyothi,

My name is Jay and I'm a member of the Philadelphia Independent Media
Center, as well as the new-imc@indymedia.org working group, the group that
works with aspiring IMCs join the Indymedia network.  I'm so glad to hear
you're interested in forming an IMC in Bangalore!  That's very exciting.
Since Boud has been overwhelmed by new-imc working group tasks lately, I'll
happily be one of your contacts on the new-imc working group.  

So, how to proceed.  Well, Boud's response to your message may give you a
good start.  There's no rush here -- the important thing is to develop a
solid, sustainable and funcational IMC.  Better to take time to organize
well than to rush ahead with a group that has no future.  In that context,
take your time to look through the Indymedia sites, to read the documents
at http://newimc.indymedia.org, to reach out to a wide variety of people in
your area, to get in contact with other Indymedia volunteers in places like
Mumbai and elsewhere in India.  

Feel free to ask me, and/or the new-imc@indymedia.org working group, any
questions you may have as you go along.  The process of joining the
Indymedia network is itme-consuming and sometimes confusing.  We'll try to
help in any way we can.  

When you feel as if you're ready to proceed through the official new-imc
process (as outlined in http://newimc.indymedia.org) drop us a line and
we'll try to help.  

Thank you, and we look forward to good things happening.

Jay

At 01:35 PM 08/12/2002 +0200, boud wrote:
>jyothi <jyothik at iijnm.org> wrote on Fri 2 August 2002:
>http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-india/2002-August/000584.html
>
>> Dear IMC India
>> 
>> I am writing from Indian Institute of Journalism and New Media. I think IMC
>> is a great project and IIJNM would like to be part of the democratic media
>> revolution. Since we are based in Bangalore, we would like focus on issues
>> related to Bangalore. We would actually like to start an IMC Bangalore,
>> could you please let us know what are the formalities.
>> 
>> IIJNM staff consisting of International journalists and committed students
>> will be more than willing to contribute and participate in any forthcoming
>> IMC projects. 
>> 
>> sincerely
>> Jyothi Kiran
>
>Dear jyothi,
>   i'm delighted to hear that people in Bangalore would like to
>start an IMC! :) :)
>
>i'm just one volunteer in the new-imc working group (but want to quit
>soon because it takes a lot of time) and i noticed your message quoted
>above. The fact that noone seems to have replied yet is maybe your
>first lesson about how we work: it's just volunteers, and sometimes
>people are too busy, or one group is less well organised than another
>group, and the more you spend time looking around *yourself* in the
>mailing list archives:
>
>http://lists.indymedia.org/
>
>rather than waiting for others, the more chances there are that you'll
>discover that your questions may already have been answered...
>
>
>HOW TO GET STARTED:
> Probably the most important thing to say is that what is important is
>a *process* between human beings and networks of people rather than
>*formalities*.
>
>Please start reading through the documents at these pages:
>
>***************************
>http://newimc.indymedia.org
>***************************
>
>and you will be able to get an idea of the process.
>i'm cc-ing this message to the new-imc working group and
>to the imc-mumbai group, hopefully someone else will help
>talk you through the process. You will be able to see archived
>copies of this message here:
>http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/new-imc/2002-August/
>http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-mumbai/2002-August/
>
>And of course you are welcome to respond directly on either
>list, as you feel is appropriate.
>
>Just an immediate comment based on your introduction letter: it would
>be important that people from your institute only participate as
>*individuals*, who *catalyse* a collective of a wide variety of people
>living in Bangalore, since indymedia is supposed to be independent of
>government and corporate organisations, and in fact should be
>independent from any hierarchical organisation, as well being
>non-hierarchical itself.
>
>So you would need to find people from many grassroots activist groups
>who would participate on equal terms, with equal roles in
>coordinating, decision-making, facilitating meetings, developing
>editorial policy as any members of the IIJNM
>( http://www.iijnm.org ). By using a publicly archived mailing list
>(contact: listwork@lists.indymedia.org), everyone would be able to see
>what everyone else says, and take the time to read through the
>conversations at her/his own leisure. It also means that people's
>contributions and participations become clear to everyone...
>
>Of course, it would make sense to concentrate on local Bangalore
>issues, and this is exactly the hope of any IMC - all the more
>important that Bangalore women's rights groups, dalits' groups,
>housing rights groups, environmental activists, etc. living in and
>around Bangalore participate - they are the ones that will provide the
>most direct, first-hand information on what is happening!
>
>Anyway, hopefully you'll find someone at new-imc 
>(maybe a new volunteer from Bombay??) who can help talk you
>through this, but even if you don't, you should hopefully find
>the information you need in the list archives, and by going through
>
>http://newimc.indymedia.org
>
>You're most welcome to browse through all these archives and 
>contact any of the lists to learn about what happens there,
>though possibly imc-mumbai
>
>http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-mumbai
>
>might be the most interesting to you.
>
>i suggest you reply either to  new-imc@lists.indymedia.org
>or to  imc-mumbai@lists.indymedia.org  (not to me personally)...
>
>Good luck!
>boud
>
>
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