[New-imc] comprehensive list of IMCs

[boud]

hi amino,

On Fri, 23 May 2003 amino at sdf.lonestar.org wrote:

> I've been wondering wether there is any comprehensive list of existing
> IMCs, along with their approval dates etc. and from what I know there
> isn't.

comprehensive listing (no approval dates):
http://www.indymedia.org/cities.inc

approval dates:
Go to 
http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/NewImc
and you'll see two links:

* "New IMC Status Page" to
http://www.indymedia.org/contact/new_imc.php  
- this is one entry into *the contact database" handled mostly be
local IMCs but also by new-imc helpers

* "Approved IMCs"
http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/approvedIMCs
- this is edited purely by hand

> My suggestion would be to create a nice alphabetical list of all IMCs that
> are part of the network on a twiki page. From there on each IMC will be
> linked to its own twiki page, which contains preferrably a standardized
> profile: when it became a member, what its contact adresses are, and other
> resources that can be added and edited by anyone.

For public contact info there's
http://www.indymedia.org/contact.php3
which is generated automatically from the contact database.

i added a link to this on .../NewImc
 
> My first inquiry would be to ask any members of the new-imc list which
> information would already be available (most importantly dates of
> membership approval). a first list which I have made lacks more than half
> of those and I havent been able to obtain the rest. Especially of all the
> very early IMCs that never really went through a new-imc process.

See above.

> Anyone keen to participate in this project?

It would make sense to work with the database people (mark at indymedia.org, 
bart(?) ) so that things can scale up naturally. You're welcome to try
doing it "by hand" on the TWiki, but maintenance in the long term is 
unlikely to be systematic - people with expensive internet access (like
in Poland) generally don't edit the TWiki because of the long connection
time. mark is not on new-imc, so you should contact him directly.

solidarity
boud