Agenda 29-07-10

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• Laura wants to do interviews for a documentary about Indymedia – she emailed saying she’ll come on the 5th.
  (that doesn’t seem like it’s happening tonight, then? – gdm)
  (well, we might want to talk about whether people are generally interested. If noone is, she doesn’t need to bother. So how about giving an interview gdm?)

• Proposal to adopt Bristol’s respect guideline:
  

  Respect: Bristol indymedia is intended to represent the world we are striving to create, rather than the world we live in. A cornerstone of this principle is respect for others, therefore articles or comments that are abusive rather than relying on force of argument are not acceptable.
  

  
  (i like that – gdm)

• feedback from network meeting
  • create UK banner saying “United Kollektives” instead of “UK” and send to aggregator people
  • read and agree minutes

• anarchist bookfair
  • discuss proposed space offered to us by london anarchist bookfair collective for video/audio interviews etc.

• hyperactive
  • what’s next? prioritise some of the stuff we want to happen
  • facebook warning prominence
  • html templates for usability improvement
  • local syndication (of good sites + blogs) – in hyperactive or on the UK aggregator?
  • maps (broader context – need a server?)

• invest in infrastructure:
  • new server proposal – money to go…. (yossarian will explain more)
  • standing set up for mobile imc – could ask northern england for advice
    • server
    • some laptops (what do we have?)
    • batteries
    • bike generator?!
    • briefcase solar panels
  • or maybe we should get some wrist keyboards for improved reporting from the streets

• outreach
  • workshop day?
  • get more people to write features
  • ‘helpdesk’ for people who have problems with the site, help them to use it and figure out what the problems are and solve them
  • stickers and flyers
  • t-shirts
    (i need a new one – gdm)

• upcoming events
  • This Friday: Ian Tomlinson protest
  • EDL Bradford
  • CC Scotland
  • NoBorders Brussels

(none of these are london… are there things happening locally we should be at? i’m sure there are…)