[New-imc] BRISBANE: membership criteria (j,k,m?)

[boud]

Hi everyone, i've filled this document out on behalf of the
brizzie crew, see my previous message for more comments.


http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/new-imc/2001-May/000155.html

[THIS IS THE CURRENT DRAFT OF THE IMC MEMBERSHIP CRITERIA.  WE WILL SEND
FUTURE DRAFTS AS THEY ARE AVAILABLE.]

IMC MEMBERSHIP CRITERIA - DRAFT
Each IMC and Global Working Group is expected to:
a. Agree in spirit to the NIMC Mission Statement and Principles of Unity,
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/new-imc/2001-May/000160.html

Well, looking through the brisbane.indymedia.org site and knowing they
were set up by people sydney/melbourne people we know and trust, and
especially seeing the pages:

http://www.brisbane.indymedia.org/about.php3
http://brisbane.indymedia.org.au/edpolicy.php3

it looks to me like they agree.


b. Have a committed membership substantial enough to sustain a functional
IMC,

The site http://brisbane.indymedia.org has been up and running for
many months and looks pretty stable to me.

c. Have open and public meetings (no one group can have exclusionary
"ownership" of an IMC),

http://www.brisbane.indymedia.org/about.php3

> Our general meetings are held fortnightly on Monday nights at the
> Incubator; 264 Barry Parade, Fortitude Valley. 


Open and public mailing lists:

Australia and Aotearoa Indymedia organising list
http://lists.cat.org.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/imc-brisbane

The indymedia brisbane organising/discussion list
http://lists.cat.org.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/imc-brisbane-fundraising

brisbane imc fundraising collective
http://lists.cat.org.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/imc-brisbane-kill-your-tv

(video and multimedia) indykids
http://lists.cat.org.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/imc-brisbane-space

brisbane independent media space
http://lists.cat.org.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/imc-brisbane-tech


d. Work toward developing a local Mission Statement or Statement of Purpose.
Network Mission Statement may be adopted or used on an interim basis,

Top of 
http://brisbane.indymedia.org.au/edpolicy.php3

but i'll put it in a separate mail for easy reference.


e. Establish and publish an editorial policy which is developed and
functions through democratic process, and with full transparency,

http://brisbane.indymedia.org.au/edpolicy.php3

f. Agree to the use of Open Publishing as described in the NIMC Editorial
Policy [editorial collective comments: "We did agree that the term "Open
Publishing" was one that is still being defined by the Global Network
Collective, and we would wait and see what the results were before rewriting
this criteria],

Clear by practice.

g. Adopt a decision-making policy that is in alignment with consensus
principles which include open, transparent and egalitarian processes,

http://brisbane.indymedia.org.au/edpolicy.php3
(Quite an interesting and clear decision-making policy...)


h. Have a spokesperson(s) willing and capable of participating in the global
decision-making process and meetings as a rotating liaison/representative,
with a clear understanding of the responsibilities that come with this role,

adam is on imc-communication:
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-communication/2002-May/002086.html

i. Participate in the key IMC Network Communication Methods that pertain to
the health and vitality of the Network and that contribute to the work of
the IMC. Assure that at least one person from your local IMC participates
at any given time on the IMC-Communication list,

[i'm still unclear how this is different from h., but i guess h. is thinking
of face-to-face meetings...]

Same answer as for h., adam says he's on several lists, and it's clear
that IMC Brisbane is well integrated into the Oceania regional group.


j. (NOT FINALIZED): Have no official affiliation with any political party,
state or candidate for office (comments: but individual producers have
freedom to do whatever they like and local IMCs can "feature" stories about
various political parties and initiatives),

i couldn't find it stated as such on

http://www.brisbane.indymedia.org/about.php3
http://brisbane.indymedia.org.au/edpolicy.php3

but pollies are held in ill repute down under so i would be surprised
if this were a problem...


k. IMCs shall in no way engage in commercial for-profit enterprises. [We
could add: The IMCN is committed to the decommercialization of information
and will disassociate from any local IMC that decides to become a for profit
media corporation.]

Again, i couldn't find it stated.  This might be a bigger risk, probably
it would be comforting to other IMCs if Brizzie people could comment on 
this.


l. Display a ³local version² of the IMC ³i² logo on your website and
literature.

Yes.

m. Include the IMC Network current ³Cities List² on your site, preferably on
the front page.

There is a cities list, but it is not updated to the current file
http://www.indymedia.org/cities.inc

E.g., Jakarta, Bolivia, Euskal Herria are missing.