[New-imc] [en] new-imc and volunteer.indy coordination

[bks10 at cornell.edu]

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Pseudo Punk wrote:

> Hey Brian
> 
> bks10 at cornell.edu <bks10 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> > Hi, just an idea i had which i think would make things easier. if people
> > think it's a good idea i'll phrase it as a formal proposal and nag
> > the usual suspects to translate it to a few languages for me :-)
> > 
> > I've been working with catherine to update volunteer.indymedia.org,
> > which is horribly out of date (altho we've added about 20 imc's in the
> > past month or so, with more to come shortly). This process is tedious
> > to say the least - finding out where a country/region is (in some cases
> > its not so clear, e.g. ambazonia), then trying to contact them thru
> > their email list, websites, random people you know there, etc.
> > 
> > Anyway the point is if new-imc could be rigged to automagically forward
> > a copy of accepted imc's applications to volunteer at indymedia.org, it
> > would make maintaining volunteer.indy much easier. Either we could use
> > the current "Contact Name" field for the contact address we put in to the
> > volunteer.indy database, or we could add a textbox "Volunteer Contact"
> > on the newimc.indy page.
> 
> hmmm
> just thinking. the contact database (http://indymedia.org/contact) 
> keeps track of approvals and so. can we just let contact db interact 
> with volunteer ?

Yeah, that would work.... IF the contact db was in decent shape. 
Unfortunately, tho, at least half the IMCs on there don't have 
non-mailing list emails, and volunteer.indy doesn't work well with 
mailing lists.

Would it be possible to make people from a potential new imc make sure 
the contact db is filled in properly *before* they are approved (if I 
recall correctly, they are asked to submit an entry to the contact db 
*after* being approved)?

Peace,
Brian

PS - Beneath my foot and between my toes right now is a strange insect the 
size of a small lizard.

> just my 2c.
> Bart
> 
> 
>  
> > What do y'all think?
> > 
> > Peace,
> > Brian Szymanski
> > bks10 at cornell.edu
> > ski at indymedia.org
> > 
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