[IMC-Philly] January General Meeting Minutes

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Philly IMC General Meeting Minutes- Sun. Jan. 19th 2003 @ 4134 Lancaster

In attendence: Rolando, Amy, Anthony, Jon, Mike R. and Dylan

1)  Amy gave budget reportback for IMC Philly and breakdown by project.

a) Brief discussion of recently completed Bread & Roses grants.  In short,
acting on a conversation between Christie Balka and Dylan, we were invited
to send in two proposals, one for IMC General, and another for Radio
Volta.  These were submitted earlier this week.

b) Anthony work with Amy to complete Resist! reportback for Volta this
week that is past due.  Multi-year proposal due in Feb.  Amy and Anthony
to work on that together.

c) also Progressive Technology grant deadline approaching.

d) other budget stuff: creation of a new petty cash system, to be
administered out of the Prometheus office by Anthony.  Amy will create a
form to be used that corresponds with the existing Quicken
classifications.  Cash will be taken out of money collected from Volta
dues, and any other sources of cash, and reimbursed from appropriate
working group account.  This should free people up to make quick and dirty
purchases on already approved projects, ie. building materials for the
Space.

e) also, a better system will be set up to handle all of the recurring
expenses, so as not to tax this NEW petty cash system.  recurring bills
include: DSL, Phone bill, cost share to (k)notsquat, DSL to WPEB, cost
share to Wendy & Alexi, and the Space phone bill.


2) Server Reportback- Rolando & Jon & Dylan- Part 1 of 2 part Server
project nearing completion.  Will be online by end of the week.  Major
project of taking the stuff off the old server and putting it on the new
server to begin VERY SOON.

a) GEEK NITE- Monday, Jan. 20th- people will be assembling at (k)notsquat
at 8pm to install the operating system on the new server and continue work
on the wireless network project.  ALL  ARE WELCOME.

b) tabled discussion of what to do with new volunteer requests coming
through the website with regard to ongoing GEEK NITE projects.


3) Volta Reprtback- Dylan & Anthony

a) new dues policy in effect.  should be impetus for more organization and
commitment for Volta.

b) DemocracyNow! will be returning to Philadelphia via Radio Volta & WPEB
in the near future.  Discussion is ongoing between Dylan & Sister Bey &
the DN! folks.  There will be some technical consideration to be
addressed, namely the automated playlist functions, but things are moving
forward.

c) there is a proposal to renegotiate hours with Sister Bey to make them
more standard, easier to promote.  Ideally the Volta/WPEB switch should
happen at the same time every day.  We will ask for 8pm to 2am, but will
settle for 9pm to 3am.  We will also be suggesting that the first hour of
Volta programming be dedicated to public affairs programming.  This may
require some shifting of existing programmers schedules.

d) there will also be a more concerted effort to make more formal written
proposals to Sister Bey when considering things that will have a major
impact on our relationship, and getting signatures from both parties, and
copies all around to encourage a more open working relationship and to
avoid the types of confusion that we've experienced in the past.

e) the VoltaNews crew is getting more organized, with an organization
meeting happening this Tuesday night.  On the table for discussion is a
plan to organize regular training/skill sharing sessions, similar to what
is going on in DC at WPFW Wednesday evenings.


4) Space Reportback- Dylan & Amy & Jon & Rolando-  Next Space Meeting is
on January 29th and will be focused on what the next few months should
look like to hit our May 1st deadline.

a) Dylan has been contributing quite a bit of energy lately, but will be
getting busy in the next few months.  His last two fully committed
workdays will be Jan. 25th & Feb. 1st.  Considering this fact, the
necessity of two distinct positions of leadership becomes clear: the need
for a Workday Volunteer Coordinator, to rally the troops weekly; and a
Construction Coordinator, someone with one eye on what's happening
actively construction-wise, and the other eye on The Grand Plan, or what
needs to happen, construction-wise.  Several people were suggested to
potentially fill each role, Jay or Jen for the WVC position, and Kassidy
or Dave for the CC position.  Amy will contact Jen & Dave, while Dylan
will contact Jay & Kassidy to see who would be willing to fulfill these
roles.

b) Rolando has agreed to assist the WVC by sending out weekly reportbacks
on the progress at the workdays.  Dylan had been filling this function.

c) Rolando sent an email to the list requesting someone to take over the
administration of the two Space Listserves.  Mike R. has agreed to take
that over.


5) Web Hosting Reportback- Jon &Amy- New server will give us new
capabilities to help out like-minded projects with web hosting.  Some
groups we are already hosting, and some we have agreed to host, but for
various reasons things have not moved forward, and others have only
recently approached us.  Below is a list with notes:

	a) Green Delware- we are currently hosting and will continue
	b) IndyPendent NY- we have agreed to host them, but they are not on yet
	c) Economic Human Rights Campaign- have agreed to host, but not on yet
d) WBIX- has approached us, we are interested, not sure if we could handle
their space requirements, specifically with regard to streaming
e) IMC Turkey- has approached us recently, nothing definitive yet.


6) Sustainable Business Network- Amy gave reportback.  We have been
invited to participate in the SBN (organized by Judy Wicks of the White
Dog)  as an ally among independent media.  Anthony will be speaking at
their forum on Jan. 30th about the Volta/WPEB relationship.  They have
also asked us to help them identify other independent media allies that
they can approach for membership in the Network.  In this discussion, two
criteria have arisen: that they are Local (this is the easy one) & that
they are truly "independent".  There was some discussion as to how to
identify truly independent sources.  First if they are owned wholly or
partially by a publicly traded company they will NOT be invited to
participate.  But not all "privately" held media companies are truly
independent either; ie. family-run organizations, where a board of family
members has primary decision making power.

a) We will use the (90% completed) Media Ownership Research Paper that was
produced  last year by a Prometheus intern as a starting point in
identifying other true independents.  additional research will be
necessary.

b) in the far-off future...Prometheus has recently approached the Ford
Foundation for a project that would map patterns of media cross ownership
with other industries.  The project would include an outreach component
which would partner Prometheus with other progressive organizations to try
to identify cases where patterns of ownership might have influenced
coverage of their issues.


7) Next IMC Philly General Meeting: Sunday, Feb. 16th 2003, @ 329 E.
Thompson Street
	Steering Committee Meeting starts at 4pm; IMC General meeting starts @ 5pm.



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