V3 -[New-imc] CANCUN - internal new-imc DEADLINE 13:00 GMT Wednesday 13 Aug 2003

[Sheri Herndon]

hi,
i have been forwarding these emails to timo, imc-chiapas and busy with organizing in cancun, but this is the weekend til tomorrow for the zapatista convergence, so folks are busy.  but he's been getting these.  i expect to hear something from him in response to some of the points raised here.
sheri

>hi everyone,
>   i think the cancun people seem to have missed some of the 
>discussion on new-imc, so i'm cc-ing them.
>
>kino, or someone else supporting the cancun website, could you 
>comment on this proposal please? There's no point us (new-imc) 
>internally
>consensing a proposal and then passing it on to imc-process if the
>people concerned are unhappy with it...
>
>The most recent comments are from changsing:
>http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/new-imc/2003-August/004226.
>html
>asking why can't we simply have
>
>www.indymedia.org/cancun  ?
>
>Whether or not it's a syndication page or just a simple redirect to
>http://cancun.mediosindependientes.org/ surely it's enough?
>
>and blicero taking up chris' suggestion:
>
>http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/new-imc/2003-August/004232.
>html
>> a. leaving the cancun2003.indymedia.org domain even long term
>> b. keep the specification on local imc and so on as in boud poroposal
>> c. maybe trying to set up a syndacation system like 
>www.indymedia.org/g8 could
>> be good :))))
>
>Since these are significant alterations of the original, i've reset
>the decision deadline, and i've included both these possibilities.
>
>IMHO a name like "cancun2003.indymedia.org" is reasonably obvious
>that it's somehow different from a normal indymedia site and that 
>by 2004 will be clearly "out-of-date", but it will technically 
>remain accessible (brilliant idea, chris + blicero!).
>
>The imc-process deadline should now be 20 Aug if there are no further
>problems - seems to me this is still plenty of time before the event.
>i just saw i wrongly mixed up Aug and Sep in the previous version :(...
>
>solidarity
>boud
>
>
>
>On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, boud wrote:
>
>######################################################################
>[en]
>PROPOSAL Cancun domain - deadline WED 13 Aug 2003  Version-3
>
>The Cancun support group including IMC Chiapas wish to have a temporary
>use of the cancun domain name for the WTO meeting 10-14 Sept 2003.
>They have an indymedia-software site
>http://cancun.mediosindependientes.org/
>but there is not yet any local, self-organised, autonomous indymedia
>group there. It is proposed that:
>
>(1) The domain name and directory name
>
>cancun2003.indymedia.org 
>and
>www.indymedia.org/cancun/
>
>be given for use by the
>support group 
>
>(2) cancun will *not* be added to the cities list
>
>(3) The people organising the  http://cancun.mediosindependientes.org/
>site will place a prominent (obvious) notice on the web site that:
>(3a) there is not yet any local indymedia group in Cancun 
>(3b) that locals are encouraged to get organised if they wish, with
>a link to http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/NewImcHowTo or an [es]
>version of the page
>
>[fr]
>PROPOSITION domaine Cancun - échéance DIM 10 août 2003 - Version-2
>
>Le groupe de soutien Cancun, dont le groupe IMC Chiapas, souhaite
>utiliser temporairement le nom de domaine Cancun pour la rencontre WTO
>10-14 sep 2003. Il y a actuellement un site qui tourne sous un logiciel
>type indy
>http://cancun.mediosindependientes.org/
>mais il n'y a pas encore de groupe local, auto-organisé, autonome 
>d'indymédia
>là-bas. Il est proposé que :
>
>(1) Le nom de domaine et nom de repertoire
>
>cancun2003.indymedia.org 
>et
>www.indymedia.org/cancun/
>
>soient utilisés chez le groupe de soutien
>
>(2) Cancun *ne* sera *pas* rajouté à la liste cities.inc
>
>(3) Ceux et celles qui organisent  
>http://cancun.mediosindependientes.org/
>mettra des avertissements évidents sur le site annonçant que :
>(3a) il n'existe pas encore de group local indymedia Cancun
>(3b) les locaux sont encouragé-e-s s'organiser s'ils et elles le 
>souhaitent,
>avec un lien sur http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/NewImcHowTo ou
>une traduction [es] de cette page
>######################################################################
>
>
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