[Imc-summaries] IMC-Tech Summary For October 6th 2001

[evan@protest.net]

Tech Summary:
	Hiro Server Meeting
	Nigeria IMC
	Offline copies of indymedia sites
	Plug 'N' Politix
	Calendars
	More push to eye mirroring fun
	Indymedia on Handhelds?
	DNS server changes
	Article about online journalism
	Action Apps (APC) & Updating Pages
	Mir Update
	IMC-India Asks for help
	IMC-Tech email for new-imc working group



Hiro Server Meeting
	Hiro.indymedia.org is the Vancouver based server.
	There was a working meeting on October 3th to
	setup the server for hosting indy sites. Currently
	both victoria and vancouver are hosted on hiro.
	Read the meeting transcript.
	http://tech.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=277


Nigeria IMC
	They got two laptops but they need a lot more.
	In the threat people also talked about improving
	communication between new-imc and imc-tech.
	http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-tech/2001-October/005467.html


Offline copies of indymedia sites
	Toon from Belgium wanted to know how to make a static
	copy of an indymedia site on a laptop. A couple of
	suggestions were thrown around from using IE's site
	archive type function to wget. Maffew wrote a perl
	script that fixes the urls for an offline indymedia
	script. But, i can't find the url to that script right now.
	http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-tech/2001-September/005442.html


Plug 'n' Politix
        This weekend there is a gathering of techies in Zurich
	to talk about free cybercafe's, squats, technology, and
	politics. We setup a web radio station with interviews
	and other 'self' coverage of the event. In attendance
	are techies from the IMC's in germany, italy, switzerland,
	slovenia, norway, and the netherlands.
	http://squat.net/pnp


Calendars
	There are two programs most imc's use for calendars on
	their sites. One is the active calendar, which is already
	installed for most indymedia sites. It's a more basic
	calendar system. The other option is to use protest.net.
	You can create a calendar which is hosted on protest.net
	but has the graphics and html of your indysite.
Active Calendar: http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-tech/2001-October/005455.html
Protest Net: http://Protest.Net/create_calendar.html


More push to eye mirroring fun
        It appears pushtoeye, the script that moves things
	over to images.indymedia.org has broken. The interim
	solution is to have the indymedia sites server images
	locally. If your images are breaking 12 minutes after
	being uploaded you need to have this fix added to your
	site. Hopefully there will be a meeting this weekend
	to fix the problem.


Indymedia on Handhelds
	People keep requesting it. I believe there is a wap
	version of indymedia, but nobody really uses wap.
	This is another great task for some aspiring imc-techie
	to take on.


DNS Changes
        Lynn is going to change fs.freespeech.org from BIND to
	tinydns based on djbdns. This will mean a change in the
	way we update and manage the dns records.
	http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-tech/2001-September/005445.html


Article About Online Journalism
	First Monday has an interesting article looking in to
	the field of online journalism. They mention indymedia
	but more importantly they look at the whole field.
	Definitely worth the read.
	http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue6_10/deuze/index.html


Action Apps (APC) & Updating Pages
        John from LA has installed and is playing with APC's
	action apps as a way of letting more imc people update
	pages on indymedia sites. This might be of interest for
	other cities.
	http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-tech/2001-October/005487.html


Mir Update
        Mir is coming along.  The media handlers for uploading
	more kinds of rich media have a framework, but need people
	to write the implementations most types of media, but it is
	just a matter of following the framework. The english language
	templates are also a little out of date. If you're a java
	programmer please jump in and help.
	http://mir.indymedia.de


IMC-India Asks for Help
	They are in the process of restarting up and they want
	to know how to get help from imc-tech. In general
	we need to make more clear how people from various imc's
	can work with imc-tech better.
	http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-tech/2001-October/005484.html


IMC-Tech email for new-imc working group
	I wrote up a quick email summarizing what imc-tech
	can do for new imc's. This should be looked at and
	revised. Also it is of interest to existing imc's
	which are looking for help.
	http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/new-imc/2001-October/001020.html


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