[New-imc] CAIRO IMC (urgent)

[boud]

hi

On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 evan at protest.net wrote:

> I don't support the approval of the cairo imc!!!
> 
> Look we can setup a site for them and we can give them cairo.indymedia.org
> but under no cirmstances should we throw away our network principles
> because they take too long.

i agree, except for the name.  

Helping them get a site running would be great, but i don't see any
reason to give them cairo.indymedia.org rather than, say,

cairo-tmp.indymedia.org 

or

cairo-test.indymedia.org

or something like this, which would make it more difficult for 
people to ignore the fact that it is not yet a full indy site. This
might help avoid the confusion that sometimes happens with
zimbabwe.indymedia.org - if it were  zimbabwe-tmp.indymedia.org it
would be more obvious that it's only requested and not yet fully
in the network.

The only argument against this is that it's long, but compared to, say,

cairodada.bandwidthcoop.org

i think cairo-tmp.indymedia.org should be easy enough to remember.

 
> We have done this in the past, we help them get a site but DON"T include
> them in the cities list or consider them an indymedia center until htey
> have finished the new imc process.
> 
> My recollection, was that there were problems with teh first cairo
> application. Mainly that there were no Egyptians involved in the
> organization. Maybe they have solved this maybe this is a different group,
> i don't know.
> 
> So i support them getting a site, but let's still have them do the new imc
> process. I'm trying to find out if mir or sfactive has better arabic
> support. The problem is sfactive has better support but their techies are
> all in the streets doing direct action. If they don't want to publish in

(scott at bandwidthcoop.org) and spud who does dada seem to have
i18n reasonably functional - IMC Japan (coming soon... watch this
space :) has a site at bandwidthcoop functioning OK, where the
Japanese is written on the web page in html coding. 

i suggest contacting scott & spud (don't know spud's email).

> arabic it brings up questions about whether or not they are egyptians or
> international academics.
> 
> Looks like we'll need them to translate some files before it can come
> online.

i browsed 
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-beirut/
but i don't see any hints of where their web site is (they're approved,
of course!). 

It would make sense to work together on this - my guess is Beirut will
use Mir because of the European connections... but i'm only guessing.

And i guess IMC Palestine uses sfactive? 

pozdrawiam
boud