Agenda was:
1) Recent Resignations
General discussion over problems and perspectives took
place
* Proposal regarding blog section put forward. It
was agreed in principle to look at setting up a
selected feed of blogs with compatible principles.
Exactly how this will be incorporated into site will
be decided when we have done more work on the idea and
have seen if there is any interest amongst bloggers.
Chekov will try to come up with a preliminary list of
bloggers to invite and will attempt to see if there is
any interest.
2) Discussion of "other press" category
* Proposal to loosen restrictions on other press type
and not to require summaries defeated
* Counter-proposal to tighten restrictions and ensure
that they are properly followed unanimously agreed.
3) Outreach
* Unanimously agreed to carry out outreach project
involving the circulation of leaflets with information
promoting indymedia prepared by Reddy.
* Project will target NGOs, with particular focus on
women's groups.
* Anthony will coordinate writing of the text to fill
the leaflet
* Mark volunteered to coordinate distribution list
* It was also noted that we need new editors and
writers.
* It was agreed that we should hold an event,
hopefully for the release of eamonn crudden's new
film, including a feature and article writing
workshop. (padraig agreed to contact eamonn, seomra
spraoi and william H. regarding this).
* Also agreed to hold a day-long event in and around
next february to promote indymedia and to raise money.
Chekov will coordinate.
4) IP Moniter
* Use of the IP monitor was discussed and the
following protocal was agreed:
- any moderator can turn it on when they deem it
necessary, but they must indicate a reason for the
banning (the reason will appear in the edit log and
the editor message page).
- Any moderator can ban somebody for any length of
time, but they must mail the list to indicate the
reason for their action and justify the length of the
ban.
- A proper, worked out schedule for this stuff can
be derived from practice.
- terry will implemenet the necessary code-changes
5) Video.indymedia.ie
* Ant proposed running an experimental
video-uploading site - agreed by all, but we will need
to see how it works before there is any integration
with current site
* Terry will investigate safe ways of allowing users
to embed youtube videos.
6) Finances
* roughly 2,000 in bank - will see us through till
next spring in hosting
* chekov will try to re-invigorate "friends of
indymedia" idea for february conference.
7) List Administration
* Terry to take over from ant as main list admin, ant
will help out with some moderation
* need more volunteers
8) New style front page
* Reddy's proposal for a new style front page (a la
NYC) was agreed in principal, but we need to see mock
ups and an actual design before we can decide
anything.
9) Items put off until next meeting
* site enhancements
Next Meeting: November 14th, 7.30pm, Grehans.
