[Imc-lwg-work] iNTERFACEv3.1to charter
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                HOW TO GET INVOLVED IN IMC LONDON WORKING GROUP (LWG)

                   a user-friendly interface to the group's Charter 

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You can get involved as an individual or as a group with no limit on size.

CHOOSE any work you like that contributes to the developing Indymedia network 
in London, the UK or the Republic of Ireland, or all of them at the same time. 
This can be technical, journalistic, photographic, artistic, legal, 
communication, finding a barn and painting it to do workshops in, fundraising, 
outreach, setting up a new project like web radio, TV, something printed, etc. 

 - The work that you choose to do we call a 'task'.
     
To get this new task (work) going, please follow this procedure: -

*1) Appoint a Coordinator for the the people involved. The coordinator must 
read the LWG Charter, and say that they understand it. They must explain it in 
general terms to everyone involved, and agree to work according to it.
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-london-wg-work/2002-
April/000058.html
The coordinator will be the point of contact to the group - and so must have a 
public email address. Once the new group is working it will also be the 
coordinator's responsibility to regularly write and publish summaries of the 
group's work. 

- Being the group coordinator might become a lot of work, but the position can 
later pass from one person to another within the group. The important thing is 
that there is always a working coordinator for the group.

*2) Decide on three things: clear goals for your task that can be understood by 
everyone else in LWG; how long you commit to continue the task; and how much 
notice you will give everyone else in LWG if you decide to stop working for any 
reason.

*3) What happens next is that the proposed new task will be considered by those 
people/groups already doing other work in LWG. What is checked, is if the 
proposed new task accords with the Charter of LWG. 
   
   - if the rough consensus to this check is "yes", then the people 
involved who have proposed the new task receive the status of a new Working 
Group of LWG, and the new task can go ahead straightaway. 

   - if the rough consensus is "there are problems", then the point(s) 
where the new task does not accord with the LWG charter will be clearly 
explained, and the new task can be modified and proposed again.

 
THAT'S IT.
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IMPORTANT NOTE
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A Working Group can work on an unlimited number of different tasks it chooses, 
but the whole of the above procedure (*1-*3) must be followed separately for 
each one of these tasks. 
Example: your group might run a science column on the IMC UK website as one 
task, and also fundraise as a second task: then the whole of the above 
procedure (*1-*3) must be followed twice - once for each of the two tasks of 
running the science column and fund-raising.
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An example
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Jack and Jill decide to work together on the task of creating and maintaining a 
science section on the Indymedia UK website. Jill begins as Coordinator, she 
reads through the LWG Charter, makes sure she understands it and that she 
agrees to what it says. She tells Jack in general terms what it's about. She 
then gives her email address as a contact. 
Next Jack and Jill decide on the goals of their task: putting together two 
articles a month, which they will source from the Newswire on the IMC UK 
website and from elsewhere [becuase IMC UK is an Open Publishing website not a 
forum for their own writing, see the *note below]; they will continue to run 
the science column for six months, give a monthly summary of their work to the 
rest of LWG, and give a month's notice if they decide to quit before then for 
any reason.
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*note. The rough definition of Open Publishing.
http://www.cat.org.au/maffew/cat/openpub.html)

-- ToniPrug - 15 Feb 2004
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