[New-imc] Oceania Indymedia

[boud]

hi all,
   i'm just wondering if we're just playing with words in making a 
distinction between "IMC US" and "oceania.indymedia" ...

US asks to go through the new-imc process and says it's an IMC;
Oceania says it's a regional syndication site and just wants some sort
of network approval with a few specific requests, including domain name,
without claiming to be "an IMC".

Are they both bottom-up syndication sites of existing IMCs in some region?

For Oceania, IMHO yes, and it certainly has been functioning for a
long time, and looks like it's functioning fairly smoothly.

US seems like it's bottom-up, and being a syndication site seems to be
its main aim, but it has only been functioning as a group for some
months.

Maybe the biggest difference is the danger of nationalism in the case of
US - but the locals have already discussed this and seem to have come to
a consensus decision. 

In any case, i agree with blicero that the Oceania case should be decided
on by imc-process by whatever is imc-process' decision-making procedure.

As for US, i guess since they *asked* to go through new-imc, they should
consider the concerns we (new-imc) have raised...

solidarity
boud



On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Blicero wrote:

> if it is totally sindycated i think it can go on straight forward :))
> since there is no decision making and so on there is no actual new imc forming,
> just a useful gathering of media produced locally in a region :)))
> 
> ciao
> blicero
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