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• Our current one is out of date and brings up warning messages for people who are publishing – an obstacle to people publishing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