ThoughtsOnDispatch260803

is a text written after the first chat beginning of August

summary:

• before searching a technical solution we need to see wht the problem really is. spend some time on describing several dispatch situations to be able to integrate them into whatever tool we then develop
• we need to find ways to create a way to include people who are not familiar with indymedia nor with technical tools.
• we need to spend time on getting in touch with activists in the street to get them to cooperate with the dispatch team
• we need much better documentations of our work - tech how-to's as well as detailed work-flows that leave space to add good ideas
• i want to have a clear distinction between ongoing work and information that is publicly accessible. there needs to be a place for work where we don't need to be aware of possible abuse (also to avoid unconfirmed news from being spread)
• let's think twise about rss-feeds. who in ecuador wants to read lots of stuff in danish? i don't believe that a lot of information is necessarily the best information
• it is absolutely vital that we get in touch with the local media groups and protest organizers to prepare good co-operation and don't assume they'll just be waiting for us to impose our ways of working
• it's too optimistic to expect imc's elsewhere in the world to be sitting waiting to write texts or take up other parts of the work. mostly they will not be prepared to do anything but publish pieces of text that were already translated.

so what we need to do is prepare all the steps from news gathering and longtime preparation via confirmation to the final daily summary in several languages. in a way that makes people want to participate in this most exciting bit of indymedia work!

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-- AnNa - 26 Aug 2003
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