[New-imc] IMC-GALIZA (internal approval - deadline 21/Apr/2003 - 00h00m GMT)

[boud]

hi everyone,
   IMC Galiza has responded to my concerns:
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-galiza/2003-April/000097.html

especially the most worrying one, about open publishing:

> > (3) open publishing - no comments seem to be possible
> 
> We think comments are a good feature and its current absence might not be
> considered as a disgreement with the Open Publishing principles but a
> technical question that we will solve as others like the agenda feature or
> search facilities, as a couple of examples.  Meanwhile, the contributions
> sent as a comment to another contribution will be attached to the refered
> contribution. We can put a link talking about that if you consideer it a
> priority.

(The technical side can be discussed without cc: to new-imc - IMC Lille
- imc-france-lille at lists.indymedia.org - 
already have comments with indy-spip software, so they should be able to help 
with at least one choice of a technical solution.)

i am a bit confused about:
> > (1) Information on open, public meetings is hard to find (i couldn't find it).
> The best point to check this kind of things at the moment are the public
> mailing list archives. As you can see there, it will be a public meeting/
> press presentation the next 20030401. 

20030401 is in the past! i looked a bit through the archives and
could not find any announcements of public meetings.

> Also I have made a proposal of a
> public presentation out of the land, perhaps in Buenos Aires or Montevideo
> (the forty percent of our population lives there). Perhaps a 'Agenda'
> feature will be a good thing for this purposes.

Different IMCs have different methods - as long as you have some method
which is clear and easy to find, that should be OK. 

Decision-making:
http://imc-galiza.causaencantada.org/article.php3?id_article=57

i suggest you (IMC Galiza) look up:
  http://consensus.net/ocaccontents.html
  http://www.geocities.com/collectivebook/index.html
There may be useful ideas there that you have not tried yet. The 
healthier the consensus decision-making process, the better chance
of being open to people from hierarchical traditions in a way that
they can participate and learn non-hierarchical decision-making. 

Anyway, i think IMC Galiza still has plenty of work to do ;), but the
essentials seem to be there. If there are no more concerns by the
deadline, then IMHO they will be ready for proposal to imc-process.

solidarity
boud


On Fri, 18 Apr 2003, boud wrote:

> hi everyone,
>    IMC Galiza looks like a good group, but i have some concerns.
> (1) Information on open, public meetings is hard to find (i couldn't find it).
> (2) point m. of membership criteria - the cities list is out-of-date
> (3) open publishing - no comments seem to be possible

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