Attended this previously publicized meeting this afternoon. [Note IMC: Independent Media Centre aka IndyMedia.]
Chris reports:
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10 people turned up today to discuss establishing a Sheffield IMC (though due to other commitments not all 10 where there for the whole meeting) and there was a friendly, positive discussion.
People introduced themselves, explained why they were interested and there was a general discussion about the nature of Indymedia.
People who had not used the Publish facility had a look/play with that.
The conclusions of the meeting were that:
- We should ask imc-uk-network about the setting up of a Sheffield section like the Manchester one.
- We should all try and report anti-war activity in Sheffield this week and at Menwith Hill on Saturday.
- Having an open, public, meeting on a monthly basis would be good and that the details of this could be arranged on the imc-sheffield list.
There is probably lots of things I have forgotten – please post additions/corrections to the imc-sheffield list :-)
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For the second time this week I have been fortunate to be with a group of people who are seriously talking about IT as an emancipatory tool.
I intend to keep reporting progress of this group/project. In part this is because it is my intention to use my blog as my own record of my computer/IT activities/adventures. This will be interesting for me and I hope will have some use for others. Choose your own level of participation as you see fit.
The other aspect that I think is important in all this is the cross-over. Not only in terms of skills (I’m sure that what I learn about administering Drupal, contributing to burngreave.net, learning Linux et al will be useful with IMC and vice versa), but also in models of collaboration (“how we get the critical mass?” idea we’ve been throwing about a bit this week).
Originally posted to burngreave.net.
posted by pault at 19:03, 16 March 2003 | community , imc , politics , sheffield