[New-imc] Re: [IMC-Process] Hate to be rude, BUT, Milwaukee?

[Jay]

Hi Tiffany,

At 11/11/01, you wrote: 
>
> Hi, 
> I know I've been bother you guys about Milwaukee, but we've got stories ready
> to go, and no place to put them that isn't an obscure, non-media-affiliated
> domain name, which does us NO good in trying to promote indymedia Milwaukee.
> We submitted our stuff last week, and I have yet to see it come through on
> the process list. 


>
> I am going to the SOA this weekend, and people here are working furiously on
> pumping out content for this site, and we'd all like to know when we might
> get approved so we can either stop working on stories that will have NO
> timeliness by the time we're good to go, or re-cast them so the timeliness
> factor isn't an issue. We've got a solid group of people working here, but
> it's futile for us to start doing any promo work, or try and get other people
> involved, or pump out content until we have some sort of tangible results
> that people here in the Midwest like to see before they take anything
> seriously. 
>
> I know everyone's working volunteer on this -- all I need is the site name
> (milwaukee.indymedia.org) and any dialogue on any issues with our
> application, and then I'll be outta your hair -- we just want to get to
> publishing the stories this community desperately needs. 


I know you're really eager!  :)  I'm sorry things aren't happening minute by
minute, but I'm doing the best I can to respond.  You sent information last
week, yesterday I replied with questions and you sent answers last night/this
morning.  While things sometimes happen rather quickly around here, most of the
time the process of setting up new imc is something that takes months -- not
the application process, which generally only takes a couple weeks if the group
is organized, but the time from a group's first meeting to when the IMC's site
is up and running.  Groups take this long so they can slowly build up their
organization and make sure it's solid before embarking on the path of having a
long term, sustainable community-based media organization.  Your first meeting
was only a couple weeks ago, and I don't believe we've even gotten to talk
about your tech capacities (I know you have a tech volunteer -- do you have
server space or would you need to go on an IMC server? You may have mentioned
that already, if you have I apologize), so this is all happening pretty
quickly.  From what you've sent there seems to be a good number of people
interested and a solid vision of what you want to do.  Once that happens and
once all the responses are in, which they are now, we look at them here on the
new-imc list.  If we have any questions, we ask them, then the application goes
along to the imc-process list for consideration for a week.  After that, if
there's no dissent, the site can open.  The techincal aspects of opening up the
site should be in the works in a parallel time frame, with your tech people
communicating with imc-tech at indymedia.org to ask any questions.  Sometimes that
also takes a while too, because there are often many techincal things to work
out.  I'm sending your application to the new-imc working group right now so
everyone can see it.  

Jay

>
> Tiffany 
> "I love being 24 and jaded." 
>       Mat Costanzo, 
>             Friend, philosopher, activist.