[New-imc] learning from rogue, and all the rest of us too

[boud]

On Mon, 19 May 2003, brush wrote:

> (let me assure everyone that many, many people think andy and/or
> arc's invocations of "global imc practices/principles" are generally
> accepted, rather than overly wishful thinking.)

<joke>
Does this mean that obedient people ;) are joining the network?
Should we have a rule to exclude people with too much respect
for authority? ;)))
</joke>

But seriously, if people take time to read the documents, browse
the archives, they should (hopefully) be able to come to their own
conclusions.

> informal PROPOSAL:
> the practices and experiences of the hundreds of imc collectives
> worldwide form a great workshop of experimental revolution.  as a basis
...
> didn't (multiple perspectives wonderful).  these can be stored on some
> kind of website (i am assured), and will immediately become a vast
> reservoir of experience from which independistas and others can draw.
> more directly, they can form the basis of an informed, urgently-needed
> debate on how best to build the social fabric of another world's media.

Your proposal has been accepted and implemented:
http://docs.indymedia.org

Not many US IMCs have started using it, it seems to me. IMC France
became extremely addicted :) - and IMHO it helped in the restructuring of
French IMCs. Might help in N America too... Please start using it and
persuade other IMCs to use it if you really think "best practices"
documentation is useful! (Rogue has its own wiki, i think, but you
can surely interlink them or cut'n'paste...)

The page
http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/BestPractices
is specifically supposed to be on best practices, but in reality the
pages are probably scattered around the TWiki. Anyone wishing to
do the synthesising/analysing *work* of sorting these out is most
welcome to.

solidarity
boud