[IMC Bombay] Re: [Imc-india] Indymedia at WSF

[Vickram Crishna]

At 8:24 AM +0530 16/12/2003, Gopal Krishna wrote:
>I will be in Mumbai for WSF as well. It would be great if a meeting of the
>Indymedia people is organised.

Great. More the merrier. We need a core group of (my estimate) five 
people if we are to do any justice to our presence.

>Let us exchange notes. To begin with it would be good to know who all are
>coming for WSF and a two sentence note about ourselves. I am based in Delhi
>and I work and write on environment and health issues in general.

I'm in, as you probably know. As the only local (Mumbai) presence at 
the moment, I am helping with coordination. Looks like we will get 
Harsh from France, Evan from Uruguay, Max and Ali from USA, and 
perhaps Ganesh and Ravi from other parts of India too. Evan has been 
an enormous help with getting our site move taken care of, as have 
others. Hopefully this will be completed within the next couple of 
days, then we can do some coordination between ourselves to shape the 
look and feel closer to what we want. Just for caution: the indymedia 
- mumbai site may go down if no-one takes charge. Unfortunately I am 
not involved there, and whoever I knew of has taken off to points 
unknown. If anyone else has good ideas about how to take charge of 
the move, this is the time to act. If nothing is done, we can still 
revive mumbai indymedia at a later date, in fact it will tie in more 
strongly with the india list, if I have understood some features of 
our new publishing software. We will however, lose the few articles 
posted earlier.

Ali is trying to set up a list where we can discuss the nitty 
gritties. Hopefully this will be in place tomorrow, then we can open 
up and plan a strong presence. Just btw, in my meetings here with 
various people, I get the feeling that much is expected of indymedia 
at wsf, so let's try and pull it off.

First thing everyone needs to do is visit the wsfindia.org site and 
register as (freelance) journos with indymedia. It won't take long, 
and they have some vague ideas about restricting entry to the media 
center so the accreditation will help operationally. The registration 
closes soon, so please do this asap.

I have already registered with them that we want access for outsiders 
to our indymedia area, not the least because we will be conducting 
live audio interviews for streaming across the world. I will follow 
this again tomorrow, when I visit the WSF office. I need to get 
commitments from them for our computers and software for managing a 
full-fledged audio media center.
-- 
Vickram