[New-imc] Help with IMC Mumbai!

[PUKAR Monsoon]

Dear Jay Sand, Mark Pickens, IMC Mumbai, and Friends in the IMC Community:

Several of us who have been coordinating around setting up an 
Independent Media Centre in Mumbai, including PUKAR, Comet Media 
Foundation, and a group of students led by Sanjay Bhangar, have made 
significant progress in the past two months. We have held several 
meetings, have divided into smaller sub-groups to discuss 
documentation projects, and are also recruiting students and 
interested individuals to the IMC. We have set up an IndyMedia Bombay 
list-serv at http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-mumbai 
on which discussions are taking place about documentation projects.

In August 2002, as part of a series of student interactions called 
the "PUKAR Monsoon", PUKAR will be hosting several presentations both 
about the concept of IndyMedia and its relevance to the contemporary 
media context in Bombay and India, as well as hosting several modules 
related to documentation projects planned for the Bombay IMC on water 
resources, the India-Pakistan conflict, street vendors in the city, 
and slum demolitions. The PUKAR Monsoon will provide an opportunity 
for our group to network with college students across the city, 
building contacts and spreading the message of IndyMedia.

We submitted our initial mission statement to the New IMCs list in 
mid-June, to which Jay Sand has responded enthusiastically. Shekhar 
Krishnan, Coordinator of PUKAR, also visited Mark Pickens at the New 
York IMC in June, and received a warm response and offers of 
assistance from IMC New York to the fledgling IMC Mumbai.

What we require is some assistance, from techies and non-techies in 
the IMC Community, is where to go from here. We are in the process of 
responding to the Principles of Unity and the membership criteria, 
which we hope to submit to the New IMCs list soon, along with 
introductions of some of the core members of the IMC Mumbai. These we 
will complete within a week, and submit them to the New IMCs list for 
approval and listing.

What we are unclear about is how to establish the site, for which we 
have already applied for a domain name. We would like to download a 
standard template for the site, customise it for IMC Mumbai, and 
upload it to an existing server space managed by PUKAR. We need help 
with this process, both in terms of technical details and 
requirements and guidance as to what our options are. We have a 
software programmer who has been attending IMC Mumbai meetings who 
can help us along at a later stage. How do we get the template for 
the site, and what kind of software is required to upload and 
maintain it?

Best


Shekhar Krishnan and Sanjay Bhangar
PUKAR and IMC Mumbai
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