[IMC-Tech] Re: [Imc-communication] Re: gainesville-imc / non open-publishing indymedia sites

[arthur foelsche]

The topic that Matthew brings up here is critical:
what defines indymedia?

i suggested recently that it would be something like:

> * displays news
> * allows users to post their own stories
> * allows users to comment on stories
> 
> on the ideological end, i think it means that people setting
> up a site that uses the .indymedia.org name have a commitment
> to at least the principles that make up the seattle mission
> statement that is:
> 
> (http://seattle.indymedia.org/contact.php3)
> 
> Independent Media Center (Seattle) Mission Statement
> 
> The Independent Media Center is a grassroots organization committed to using
> media production and distribution as a tool for promoting social and
> economic justice. It is our goal to further the self-determination of people
> under-represented in media production and content, and to illuminate and
> analyse local and global issues that impact ecosystems, communities and
> individuals. We seek to generate alternatives to the biases inherent in the
> corporate media controlled by profit, and to identify and create positive
> models for a sustainable and equitable society.


s|a|m posted these additions:

> * a public meeting at least every quarter to involve new people
> * support / endorsement for atleast 5 other local 'action' groups (this may
> need better definition)
> * the site needs to have current content - ie. atleast 1 new posting a week
> * the site should not be affiliated with a political party (i think this is
> essential!!)
> * the site must not endorse corporate products and services
> * the site should have prominently displayed the 'indy' logo (italic i thing)


what do people think?
What defines this project that we have been working on for the
last year and then some?

What does it mean to be a indymedia site in the year 2001?

a.



on 1/1/01 10:30 PM, Matthew Arnison at matthewa@physics.usyd.edu.au wrote:

> always cool to see new indymedia sites.
> 
> however, like climate.indymedia.org, gainesville are not open publishing.
> contributed articles must be approved by the administrators before they
> appear on the front page.
> 
> personally i would suggest it doesn't matter what software they use, they
> should not be calling themselves indymedia if they are not open
> publishing.
> 
> however, we really need a charter before we can say such things with any
> kind of consensus. :)
> 
> cheers,
> matthew - sydney.indymedia.org volunteer
> 
> On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, arthur foelsche wrote:
> 
>> http://www.metanet.org/gainesville-indymedia/
>> 
>> looks like people have created another
>> slashcode indy site.
>> 
>> does anybody know who's running this site?
>> 
>> do we want to give them gainesville.indymedia.org?
>> 
>> 
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