[New-imc] NH IMC - Updated Mission Statement and Editorial Policy

[Art Haeussler]

Jay and new-imc members,
Below are some responses to the questions you have asked.  I've CC'd the nh-imc
list so that others in the group can be kept up to date on where we are at in
this process.

Thanks again,
-Art


> -- You say you have a website up.  What is the URL? (maybe you listed it 
> already in your documents -- sorry if I missed it.)  Do you have some tech 
> people involved in the group?

The website is up and running, we are using Dada IMC .97.  The URL is
http://www.nhindymedia.org , you can also find the editorial policy and mission
statment under the info docs section.  We have a tech group that consists of
about 3-5 people each with knowledge in different areas to contribute.

We also have 3 lists currently active, imc-nh - faciliates general discussion
among all members of the collective, imc-nh-editorial and imc-nh-tech for
members and general questions to those groups.

> -- Are most of your volunteers located in any particular city?  Or, are you 
> really sprinkled statewide?  If not, what plans do you have to reach out to 
> people who live too far away to come to meetings?

We have a mixture of people from around the state, however we still need to do
outreach into the more less populated areas of the state.  We originally
submitted requests to all of the known grassroots organizations in the state
plus ads were donated by the NH Gazette which were run for almost a month prior
to the first meeting and have continued, depending on which areas of the
collective we needed to strenghten.

Now that the site is up and we have established most of our core policies we
plan to get some materials printer, stickers, posters etc... and distribute
them throughout the state.  

We have also hosted a couple of workshops in the Portsmouth and Durham areas to
show people how to use the site and get their media up.

> -- What kind of diversity do you have among the people in the group? (age? 
> gender? economic situation? race? etc.)  If you're lacking on one or 
> another area, what plans do you have to change that?

The group has a very diverse mixture of people in terms of age, gender and
economic situation.  NH has a very sad percentage of minority citizens, only 4%
of NH is non-white.  So this will present a challenge to this group as it does
with other organizations throughout the state.  We are hoping that our
continued outreach will bring more awareness to this issue.

> Like I said, this is all the basic stuff.  Also, have you been in touch 
> with any other IMCs in your area?  Seems like New England is a hotbed of 
> IMC activity!

Our site is hosted out of Maine on the same server as Vermont, and Maine IMC. 
Our tech group has worked with Vermonts tech group to initially get the site up
and running and still talk to work out bugs.