[New-imc] Participation on this list (was PROCESS - rethinking this list ? - europe contacts)

[Sheri Herndon]

thanks bart for bringing this up.

can we get a sense of who on this list is available to do these 
applications.  i'm not sure how many people we currently have on the 
list (maybe 40 people - list admin how many people are on the list?), 
but since this list is a working group, i think that if you are here, 
you hopefully are interested in working and contributing, in small 
and large ways.  that is the definition of a "working group".

it's confusing to me when it comes to participation in indymedia 
network issues like this one (there are many others) because we have 
such low participation rates.  it's almost like our voting record in 
america which is the lowest in the entire world.  what does that 
mean?  sometimes it's very disappointing to me.  we have many people 
on these lists and 100 imcs in the network, but we continue to have a 
handful of people who do all the network work, whether that be tech 
support or features or communication or coordinating or anything, and 
i don't think that this is the ideal.  we have ideals of democracy 
but democracy is about people participating.

when we first set up this list, i really felt like it was important 
to have it be a "working group" which meant you were here to work, 
not to just have it go into a folder in your email program or not to 
just lurk.  that creates a different kind of atmosphere than one 
where everyone is contributing.

so that's my small concern about participation.

i know that we currently have boud, jay, bart, gaba, dri, myself 
occasionally (i backed off alot the last year) and a few others who 
jump in occasionally.  i've heard from a few people that they would 
like to help out and that is great.  i've also remember people from 
new imcs say that they wanted to help out and i haven't seen that 
happen.

are there others on this list who want to help share the 
responsibilities of this critical list?  if you haven't done it but 
are interested, i'm sure there are people who have been doing it for 
a while who would help you.

we also need someone to volunteer to write up a summary to share with 
the rest of the network.  we need to reinvigorate that project again, 
which helps us keep the entire network aware of what is happening. 
we've grown so fast it's hard to keep up.

solidarity,
sheri

At 4:07 PM +0100 12/1/02, PseudoPunk wrote:
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>Hey Everyone,
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>first the personal part. I'm quite busy getting a local imc organised
>here (see IMC West-Vlaanderen mail). So I don't have that much time
>available for global stuff.
>
>Is there anyone who can take over the european applications ? or
>dividing them among people ? I still volunteer to do the french ones
>(since I now have a lot of contacts there). let something now. If we
>want rotation in imc, we'll have to do it anyway...
>
>Are there volunteers for other regions ? Since jay left it seems a lot
>of mails are unanswerred ? or did I check that too fast ?
>
>Bart
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