[New-imc] addressing membership criteria (rogue imc)

[Forrest English]

This is the requested e-mail from the proposed Rogue IMC, addressing
membership criteria one by one.

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A. Agree in spirit to the New IMC Mission Statement and Principles of
Unity

All of us agree with these.

B. Have a committed membership substantial enough to sustain a
functional IMC

We have enough people to sufficently cover events in our area, with a
broad enough interest base that topics will not be ignored.

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

We have open and public meetings, we do turn away argumentative drunk
people however.

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

http://indymedia.truffula.net/draft_policy_v3.html

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

http://indymedia.truffula.net/draft_policy_v3.html

This document was created by several individuals and has gone through
revisions based on feedback from the group, this document has been
consensed on by the group in it's current form, and is always available
for change through consensus.

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)

I think we're all on the same page here, we have a newswire, it's free
to be used, we encourage it's use.

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

See our policy document.

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

We have members who have contributed with indymedia in the past, and are
familiar with global workings.   I myself am subscribed to sysadmin,
tech, wireless, process, new-imc, features, imc-communications and
tech-solidarity.   For the moment I am prepared to be the spokesperson,
and will encourage others to take up this task.

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-Communications list

I have just subscribed to imc-communications, and will encourage other
members to do the same.

J. 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)

As a whole we represent no single point of view, or political leaning.

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).

None of the group is in this for the money ;)

L. Display a local version of the IMC i logo on your website and
literature.

Done, it's been on all of our flyers, and is integrated into our
website.

M. Include the IMC Network current Cities List on your site, preferably
on the front page.

Done.  See http://indymedia.truffula.net

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I think this addresses the points.  Feel free to contact our contacts,
Eddy (eddy at indymedia.org) or myself (forrest at truffula.net) if points
need clarifying.  You can also reach our mailing list at
imc at truffula.net (just a warning, non-member posting must be approved by
the administrator).

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Forrest English
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