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[kellan]

(sent to imc-tech, imc-process, imc-global, imc-communication)

    IMC-Tech mailing list summary, for the week of Jan 1 - Jan 7 2001.

IMC-Tech is a general mailing list for discussing technology issues
related to the IMC network, and with a focus on maintaining, and expanding
the IMC websites.

This is intended to be a regular update on what is happening in the
imc-tech community.

note: everything contains is my perceptions quickly thrown together on a
quiet sunday evening and should not be mistaken for Truth --
kellan@protest.net

ANNOUNCEMENT: NEW IMC MEETING TIME NEXT WEEK!  
as per maff's proposal the imc-tech meeting on tuesday will be at the new
Euro-Africa meeting time! (at least i think so) see below for details!


SUMMARY FOR THE 1ST WEEK OF JANUARY 2001:

Contents:
	international meeting times
	gainsville imc launches
	new pushtoeye
	looking forward
	active release 1.60
	
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NEW INTERNATIONAL MEETING TIMES PROPOSED FOR IMC-TECH MEETINGS:
the current time for the online IMC-Tech meetings has been an ongoing
problem for non us based members.  several months ago a proposal was
agreed upon to rotate the meeting times, this week Matthew made a concrete
proposal for new meeting times.

*** Pacific Rim meeting (used for the past 6 months, seems to work well):
  	anchor: 1st, 3rd, 5th Tuesday of the month, 9pm Boston USA east
coast
	e.g. for 16/Jan/01

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=16&month=1&year=2001&hour=21&min=0&sec=0&p1=43

	Tue 6pm US west coast (Seattle)
	Wed 1pm Sydney
	Wed 11am Tokyo
	Wed 2am London
	
*** Euro-Africa meeting (new):
	anchor: 2nd, 4th Tuesday of the month, 9pm, Beirut, Lebanon

	e.g. for 9/Jan/01

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=9&month=1&year=2001&hour=21&min=0&sec=0&p1=34

	Nairobi, Kenya Tue 10pm
	London, UK Tue 7pm
	US east coast Tue 2pm
	US west coast Tue 11am
	Sydney Wed 6am 

all included are some concrete suggestions on planning international
meetings

http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-tech/2001-January/010214.html

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GAINSVILLE IMC LAUNCHES

	there was flurry of discussion about gainsville imc:
*** Gainsville IMC seems not to have the "open publishing" philosophy of
many IMC sites.  Open publishing means that anybody can publish and see
their content up on the website.  Some people suggested this was essential
to what an IMC is.[1]  IMC-UK pointed out that they allow all articles to
be published, and then hide those that seem inappropriate while IMC-Germany
is planning to have a similarly closed system.[2]  This conversation is
still going on on imc-tech and imc-communication.

1. http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-tech/2001-January/010182.html
2. http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-process/2001-January/000475.html

*** Arthur was also interested if anybody had the contact information for
Gainsville IMC

*** Anybody know they are using to run the website? (looks nifty ;)
	

Gainsville-IMC: http://www.metanet.org/gainesville-indymedia/

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   NEW PUSHTOEYE.PL

*** pushtoeye is the script that mirrors the imc rich media content for
hosting and streaming to loudeye.com.  
*** maff has written a new one(pushtoeye.pl) in perl, and the old
pushtoeye script (pushtoeye.sh) SHOULD NOT be used anymore.  a general
discussion of mirroring followed.
  

http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-tech/2001-January/010173.html

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        LOOKING FORWARD THROUGH 2001 

*** Arthur sent out this longish email about the future of imc-tech for
2001.  Does a good job (I think) of pulling together many of the visions,
goals, and todos discussed by the imc-tech collective over the last 6
months. 

*** sparked a conversation about the relationship between imc, and cat,
and the indy websites and active.

http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-tech/2001-January/010186.html

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                 ACTIVE RELEASE 1.60
                 
*** active release 1.60 is announced with andy's performance
enhancements. a stepping stone to active 1.61? which maff proposes is
stable version that everybody should upgrade to.  the email includes
descriptions, and links to more information about active's new features.

*** now we just need to get everybody upgraded.
  
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-tech/2001-January/010233.html