[New-imc] Re: [www-features] Re: CANCUN - imc-process DEADLINE 21:00 GMT Thursday 4 Sep 2003

[evan]

What i did was set it up so that cancun.indymedia.org works, but every 
link off of that page sends people to cancun.mediosindependientes.org. 
That basically is the splash page everybody asked for. Honestly i 
haven't followed every discusion so if somebody wants to correct it 
feel free.

-evan



El Thursday, 4 September, 2003, a las 06:08  PM, boud escribió:

> hi everyone,
>   The proposal below has now passed both new-imc and imc-process
> deadlines without any further comment. So it's accepted by the
> network. Tech people (or others) supporting the cancun WTO site can
> make the splash page and get the domain set up to point to the splash
> page.
>
> ***www-features*** Please correct the error on the feature
> GLOBAL: WTO MEDIA/CULTURE Sep 3 2003
> Fair Trade instead of WTO
> No WTO a Go-Go
>
> The error is the words "Cancun Indymedia" - but Cancun Indymedia does
> not exist!!!
>
> These words wrongly mislead the reader into thinking that a local,
> self-sustaining indymedia collective exists in Cancun. The reality
> is that many activists from outside of Cancun are converging on the
> city but that in a few months time nearly all will have left the city.
> These activists prepared an open publishing web site, but it is not the
> site of a local indymedia collective.
>
> A similar thing happened in Prague and it took a couple of years
> before a real local group took over, plus this required unncessary
> intervention from the network which had to de facto decide that no
> local group existed.
>
> i suggest a more meaningful phrase such as
> "Cancun WTO open publishing site"
> or
> "Cancun visitors' indymedia site"
> or
> think up something else which is correct and not misleading.
>
> If there is any pressure to include direct links to
> "cancun.indymedia.org" in future features over the next few weeks,
> PLEASE check that the link goes to a splash page as per the consensed
> on proposal below.
>
> The point is to avoid people being disappointed or confused in 6
> months' time when it becomes obvious that there is no local group
> autonomously managing the site.
>
> Alternatively, if visitors to Cancun have the *correct* information,
> they might actually be encouraged to help locals really organise a 
> local
> collective - if they misleadingly think that the collective already
> exists, everyone will be confused.
>
> Thanks,
> boud (new-imc and IMC PL volunteer)
>
>
> On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, boud wrote:
>
>> ######################################################################
>> [en]
>> PROPOSAL Cancun domain - deadline THU 4 Sep 2003  Version-4
>>
>> The Cancun support group including IMC Chiapas wish to have a 
>> temporary
>> use of the cancun domain name for the WTO meeting 10-14 Sept 2003.
>> They have an indymedia-software site
>> http://cancun.mediosindependientes.org/
>> but there is not yet any local, self-organised, autonomous indymedia
>> group there. It is proposed that:
>>
>> (1) The domain name and directory name
>>
>> cancun2003.indymedia.org
>> and
>> www.indymedia.org/cancun/
>>
>> be given for use by the
>> support group
>>
>> (2) cancun will *not* be added to the cities list
>>
>> (3) The people organising the  http://cancun.mediosindependientes.org/
>> site will place a prominent (obvious) notice on the web site that:
>> (3a) there is not yet any local indymedia group in Cancun
>> (3b) that locals are encouraged to get organised if they wish, with
>> a link to http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/NewImcHowTo or an [es]
>> version of the page
>>
>> (4) the domain name
>>
>> cancun.indymedia.org
>>
>> itself will point to a "splash page", which contains the information
>> (3a) + (3b) and points to http://cancun.mediosindependientes.org/
>>
>> [fr]
>> PROPOSITION domaine Cancun - échéance JEUDI 4 SEP 2003 - Version-4
>>
>> Le groupe de soutien Cancun, dont le groupe IMC Chiapas, souhaite
>> utiliser temporairement le nom de domaine Cancun pour la rencontre WTO
>> 10-14 sep 2003. Il y a actuellement un site qui tourne sous un 
>> logiciel
>> type indy
>> http://cancun.mediosindependientes.org/
>> mais il n'y a pas encore de groupe local, auto-organisé, autonome 
>> d'indymédia
>> lŕ-bas. Il est proposé que :
>>
>> (1) Le nom de domaine et nom de repertoire
>>
>> cancun2003.indymedia.org
>> et
>> www.indymedia.org/cancun/
>>
>> soient utilisés chez le groupe de soutien
>>
>> (2) Cancun *ne* sera *pas* rajouté ŕ la liste cities.inc
>>
>> (3) Ceux et celles qui organisent  
>> http://cancun.mediosindependientes.org/
>> mettra des avertissements évidents sur le site annonçant que :
>> (3a) il n'existe pas encore de group local indymedia Cancun
>> (3b) les locaux sont encouragé-e-s s'organiser s'ils et elles le 
>> souhaitent,
>> avec un lien sur http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/NewImcHowTo ou
>> une traduction [es] de cette page
>>
>> (4) le nom de domaine
>>
>> cancun.indymedia.org
>>
>> lui-męme sera dirigé vers une Ť splash page ť, qui contiendra
>> l'information (3a) + (3b) et qui aura un lien vers
>> http://cancun.mediosindependientes.org/
>> ######################################################################
>>
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