[IMC-Philly] Next PhillyIMC General Meeting is January 19

The next monthly general meeting of the Philadelphia
Independent Media Center will be on Sunday, January
19th at 4pm 4134 Lancaster in West Philadelphia.

The meeting will consist of a business meeting at 4,
dinner at 5, and breakout meetings starting at 5:30.
Breakout groups will focus on the various projects the
IMC is involved in or would like to be involved in.
The topics will depend on who is present and what
those in attendance are interested in. Potential
topics of dicsussion are listed below.

If you are interesting in becoming the media and
getting involved with Philly indymedia projects,
please attend the next monthly general meeting!

The Independent Media Center of Philadelphia
(IMC-Philly) is dedicated to building media democracy
by facilitating progressive, in-depth, and accurate
coverage of issues that affect all communities and by
increasing community access to available technologies
and information for the production and distribution of
news and analysis. A two-year old not-for-profit,
volunteer-based collaboration of independent media
makers and press liaisons, IMC-Philly operates in
solidarity with an international network of
Independent Media Centers, which collectively serve to
create alternatives to the profit- driven agenda of
the corporate media.

SCHEDULE

4:00 Steering Committee / Business Meeting
The first part of the general meeting involves the
monthly budget report and any relevant financial
discussions, local working group report-backs and
updates, global working group updates, and any other
relevant discussions (fundraising priorities,
planning, etc). 

5:00 Dinner 
Feel free to bring food and/or drink to contribute!

5:30 Breakout / Project Planning 

*	Web features. A web-based collective keeps the
center features spread updated by writing short
stories to link to longer stories that users have
posted. In real space, this can be a working meeting,
each-one-teach-one style, where people actually look
at the site and compile a feature based on good
articles that have been posted. Brainstorming about
how to make the center features collective more
dynamic can also take place.
*	Web hosting on the new server. There are several
IMC's (Turkey and Iran) and other media projects (The
Indypendent, economichumanrights.org) in need of
hosting. We need to develop a set of operational
guidelines and need to expand system administration
involvement (perhaps from the global tech collective).

*	Rewriting the PhillyIMC web site source code. 
*	Community feedback meetings (web focus groups). The
intention of this is to invole the web site users in
the web site design (and potential redesign) and
usability issues. 
*	Participation in the 4134 Lancaster space. Potential
projects at the space include the electrical and
network wiring of the space and creating a public
computer lab. 
*	The Volta/WPEB studio transmitter link project. 
*	Democracy Now on WPEB. This involves some tech
support, fund-raising, and organizing work. 
*	February collaboration with the Pa Anti-War Forum.
We have been invited to be present on a media panel. 
*	The sustainable business network project. We have
been invited to bottomline the creation of an
"independent media building block" for this network,
which is chaired by Judy Wicks of the White Dog Cafe.
This would involve contacting local press and could
build off the research that Aileene, our intern from
last spring, did. Their next meeting, tentatively
scheduled for Jan 30, will focus on building a
sustainabl independent media sector in Philadelphia.
*	Newsreal screenings. We would like to have monthly
screenings of the IMC Newsreal, a monthly television
series. 
*	Fundraising coordination. We need to fundraise for a
second server, as well as for the general IMC. 
*	Other projects as there is interest! 



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