2010-01-05 Indymedia Meeting Notes

Administrivia

• start 19:17
• next meeting 2 Feb (CMS meeting 19 Jan)
• M will reorganise wiki draft agenda and splitother stuff out
• C will type up these notes
• O will book room and be keyholder for next meeting
• end 20:37

Action Points

• C make a video tutorial
• M self promo feature
• M new CMS proposal
• M will forward Yossarian's response to hyperactive questions
• J will get in touch with Save TCP and help them to get stuff together
• All have a think about Email2newswire
• All prepare pitches for competing CMSes for 19 Jan CMS meeting

User Survey

• When should we close it ? Decision: Will keep it open for now and close it or make it look like it will close before deciding on a CMS
• Should we have a meeting ?
• Should it be a tech meeting or a public meeting ?
• Decision: We will get specific responses from people who 'should' be using indymedia. Then we'll meet to work out how to take things forward.

CMS Meeing

Target Date: 2010-01-19

Agenda

• Candidates … Drupal, Wordpress, Hyperactive, Mir
• Survey review
• Feature brainstorm
• Pitches for options (see below)
• Next steps or perhaps decision

Rules for pitches

• pros and cons
• political as well as tech issues

Checklist

• We create a tech checklist using yossarian's questions as a basis

Pitches

• NB. 15 minutes max was suggested, don't spend more than an hour on research
  • M Hyperactive
  • J Mir
  • G/O Drupal
  • C Wordpress

Feedback from IMC UK meeting

• indymedia uk to fork
• indymedia.org.uk won't belong to anyone
• home page will be a splash
• we'll have two groups, A and B (A==mir/virtual) (B==everyone else)
• whole of indymedia.org.uk == static
• oxford's urls can stay the same

New Features

• Save TCP have been difficult; demanding that we make a feature; they haven't published anything on the newswire since Feb 2010. We don' think we have a heavy process as they do.
• Not much been happening what with xmas and all.

Instant Indymedia

• Keeping newswire up to date Live indymedia setup with a laptop sending stuff straight out. People acting as reporters
• Live start pages, indymedia slower than oxford mail. Be on the phone and do live coverage. i.e dispatch.
• Twitterishness/statusnettish stuff?
• How about hosting a start block on OX4?
• We have some phones available from dispatch
• How about getting a sim card hooked up to a GSM modem?
• Shall we do a dry run? Probably a bit soon. Lets figure it out when there's a bigger event/action/demo/something.