Minutes of Nottingham Indymedia meeting, 14th April 2013¶
Tech stuff¶
Share button – we discussed possibility of having a share button on individual articles so people could link to article on Facebook/Twitter, etc more easily
- Don’t want to be seen to be promoting use of insecure corporate platforms
- London Indymedia started developing this with a warning you had to click through before sharing but never finished it
Encryption certificate
- Our current one is out of date and brings up warning messages for people who are publishing – an obstacle to people publishing
- We discussed the possibilities for buying a new one
Outreach¶
- Currently not many people publishing outside Nottingham
- Would be good to encourage activity in particular towns e.g. Derby, Leicester, Mansfield
- It was suggested that we use stickers/posters to spread the word in other places
- Do we need a name change e.g. Midlands Indymedia?
- We talked about the fact that we already have mini-sites for particular locations e.g. notts.indymedia.org/in/derby – with the help of a URL shortener could create pseudo-Indymedia sites e.g. bit.ly/DerbyIMC
- Stickers – Veggies are getting print runs done every month with Active Distribution for cheap so we could get some designs printed – G to look into some ideas for artwork
- It was suggested that we try to promote more non-activist cultural content – V has a few projects in the pipeline
New CMS¶
- Tech-minded people to investigate the possibilities and give a brief report at the next meeting
Help pages¶
- Pat suggested that they need updating
Survey¶
- People generally happy with the questions although a few alterations were suggested which btm will make on Crabgrass
- Once the final wording is sorted B will start implementing it on his server and we aim to launch it before the next meeting so we have some initial results to look at
Content creation¶
- G suggested we hold some training days at community events to promote the site and get more people to publish – we could also make the effort to hold stalls
- We need to make flyers – basic ones with details of what the site is and more involved ones explaining how to publish
Next meeting¶
- Mon 20th May, 7.30pm, Sumac Centre
