[New-imc] Online form: Proposed new IMC! (IMC Iceland) (fwd)

Sat Apr 19 10:40:09 PDT 2003

dear thor,
   i think that blicero and changsing from IMC Italy will be in touch
with you shortly to help.

Please read carefully through:
 http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/NewImcHowTo

If the page is down (like right now!), you can look up an older version at
 http://newimc.indymedia.org
but the docs.indymedia page is worth looking up once it is 
accessible again, since it's more up-to-date, complete, etc.

i just have one obvious comment at this stage, which is that an
Indymedia collective should have participation from people from a
diverse range of grassroots groups - it's not a service by one group
for many groups, it's a collective activity in which diverse people
and people from diverse groups participate right from the beginning.

Ah, and please try to contact the other Iceland people who have
contacted Indymedia earlier, see the messages below to find contact
details. At least you'll have a start in getting different groups
together.

solidarity
boud

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 16:31:50 +0100
> From: Tony <cactus at zetnet.co.uk>
> To: new-imc at lists.indymedia.org
> Subject: Re: [New-imc] Online form: Proposed new IMC! (IMC Iceland)
> 
> Hello Blicero and Changsing
> 
> There was an Iceland application ages ago - that i was looking after
> - it goes back about 1/2 years! But they never got much further. As
> there is now a new one i think they might join in as the last i heard
> they stopped because they were travelling...
> 
> Below are the details and contacts - i would prefer if you could take
> it on as i have just had a baby (Leila) and am a bit preoccupied! -
> good luck
> 
> cheers tony
> 
> ========================================
> email from March 03
> 
> Hi!
> Thanks for writing! Busy, yep, but our biggest problem is that all
> those most interested have actually moved away, temporarily, and live
> all across Europe. My friends and I have, in the meanwhile, put up
> the website www.nyhil.com, countercultural, publishing political
> articles and literature alike. But we're not really doing any news
> reporting there, understandably so as we are absent.
> 
> There will be increased efforts in the Icelandic left in general in
> the coming months Š I'll let you know as soon as a real possibility
> seems to open up ...
> 
> Cheers!
> Haukur Már.
> 
> On Dienstag, Februar 11, 2003, at 11:32 , cactus at zetnet.co.uk wrote:
> 
> >Hello again -
> >
> >How are things in iceland? Can you tell me how you are doing with
> >your application to be a new imc site? i have not heard anything for
> >a while so i presume you are busy... Anyway if you need to start the
> >process go to http://newimc.indymedia.org and follow the process
> >
> >cheers tony
> 
> 
> ========================================
> e-mail from July 02
> 
> Dear Tony.
> 
> Our situation has changed for the better.
> 
> Eldar Astthorsson, the editor of the website http://www.palestina.is and an
> active member of the Iceland-Palestine association, contacted me about the
> building of an IMC web in Iceland. We will join forces to get it going, and
> have, together, access to quite a force of people, I believe.
> 
> Tell me two things: Do you have a server that could host our web for free,
> and do you have a ready-made IMC web publishing system that we could simply
> copy to start our web? Both things would certainly save us a lot of time and
> trouble -- although we know web-savvy programmers who are willing to do it,
> my experience is that the good-hearted freelance programmers are always
> troublesome and slow. Maybe programmers in general are that, but I don't
> know the other sorts.
> 
> For trust: Eldar is a working journalist, my CV is here:
> http://www.hi.is/~haukurhe/cv-e.html
> 
> Chao!
> 
> Haukur.
> 
> This is our situation:
> Participation in the building of a regular IMC web was not as expected. Such
> a web is however needed now more than ever, as our Prime minister goes crazy
> (I send you an interesting article about that at the bottom of this email.)
> 
> What I and my friends have done is to build a basis, with articles about
> politics, global and local, culture, humanities and literature, on this
> site:
> 
> http://www.hi.is/~haukurhe
> 
> This web is made in the name of Nyhil -- 'Ny' means New, so the concept is
> coined from New and Nihilismus, to symbolize our attempts to rise anew from
> all voids.
> 
> Nyhil is a closed companionship, although growing, consisting of poets,
> political thinkers and activists, students, writers, musicians and
> filmmakers, between 22-25 years old. Our new web is being built here:
> http://www.nyhil.cjb.net
> 
> and will be opened shortly. Attempts to include an open news thread on our
> former web failed (no one participated), but we will try again on this
> latter one. We also plan to introduce our new web seriously, as we are at
> the same time publishing the first book under Nyhil's label (poetry from
> Eiríkur Örn Norddahl) -- the rumour about our current web has very silently
> spread around.
> 
> Cheers!
> Haukur.
> 
> 
> Ţann 17.6.2002 19:08, skrifađi "Tony" <cactus at zetnet.co.uk>:
> 
> >  Hello Haukur
> >
> >  My name is Tony from IMC uk
> >
> >  I have been passed on your details as you were applying for a IMC in
> >  Iceland - i will look after your proposal from now on as Bart is
> >  taking a break!
> >
> >  So could you please tell mne where you were up to and what you plan to do
> >  next.
> >
> >  cheers tony
> 
> 
> Ţann 17.6.2002 19:08, skrifađi "Tony" <cactus at zetnet.co.uk>:
> 
> >  Hello Haukur
> >
> >  My name is Tony from IMC uk
> >
> >  I have been passed on your details as you were applying for a IMC in
> >  Iceland - i will look after your proposal from now on as Bart is
> >  taking a break!
> >
> >  So could you please tell mne where you were up to and what you plan to do
> >  next.
> >
> >  cheers tony
> 
> =============
> 
> 
> >we could take up this application
> >anyone feels this is ok ?
> >(we meaning me and changsing :)))))
> >
> >
> >On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 09:40:14AM -0700, thor at peace2000.org wrote:
> >>  Submitted by: Thor Magnusson <thor at peace2000.org> on Tuesday,
> >>April 8th, 2003  @  9:40:13 am (-0700)
> >>
> >>  Client Variables
> >>  ----------------
> >>
> >>  HTTP_USER_AGENT:
> >>  Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)
> >>
> >>  Online Form Fields
> >>  ------------------
> >>
> >>  imc_name:
> >>  IMC Iceland