[IMC-Process] Re: CANCUN - imc-process DEADLINE 21:00 GMT Thursday 4 Sep 2003
boud boud1 at wp.pl
Fri Sep 5 02:08:07 PDT 2003

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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/Global/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 - \xE9ch\xE9ance 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-organis\xE9, autonome d'indym\xE9dia
> lŕ-bas. Il est propos\xE9 que :
> 
> (1) Le nom de domaine et nom de repertoire
> 
> cancun2003.indymedia.org 
> et
> www.indymedia.org/cancun/
> 
> soient utilis\xE9s chez le groupe de soutien
> 
> (2) Cancun *ne* sera *pas* rajout\xE9 ŕ la liste cities.inc
> 
> (3) Ceux et celles qui organisent  http://cancun.mediosindependientes.org/
> mettra des avertissements \xE9vidents sur le site annon\xE7ant que :
> (3a) il n'existe pas encore de group local indymedia Cancun
> (3b) les locaux sont encourag\xE9-e-s s'organiser s'ils et elles le souhaitent,
> avec un lien sur http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/NewImcHowTo ou
> une traduction [es] de cette page
> 
> (4) le nom de domaine 
> 
> cancun.indymedia.org
> 
> lui-męme sera dirig\xE9 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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