Sydney Indy Pages

Sydney Independent Media Center (IMC) is an Open Publishing website that is run by and for the grassroots community.

 

Sydney IMC Policy Documents

Mission Statement and Editorial Guidelines

IP Address Logging Policy

 

Community and Collective Communication

EngageMedia

EngageMedia is a website and a network for distributing social justice and environmental video from South East Asia, Australia and the Pacific. It is a space for critical documentary, fiction, artistic and experimental works that challenge the one-way communication model of the mainstream media. http://www.engagemedia.org/

The Register: Do-it-yourself Internet anonymity

User Stories:

• How to Post on Indymedia and Remain Anonymous

Sydney Indymedia is an open collective, so anyone can join...and we are always after more volunteers.

If you wish to get involved there are two main ways:

1. Show up at the monthly collective meeting. The meeting time and place is at the top right of this page.
2. Join the IMC Sydney mailing list. This is the main organising list for Sydney Indymedia. Subscribe over here:  http://lists.cat.org.au/mailman/listinfo/imc-sydney . Once you are subscribed, send an introduction to the list saying you want to join the collective. Then come to the next monthly meeting.

You should also read and agree to the Principles Of Unity. They can be found here: http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/PrinciplesOfUnity . This document is what outlines how all local Indymedia collectives should operate - they bind the Indymedia network together.

If you discover a problem with the software of the site, please email the tech collective at imc-sydney-tech@indymedia.org.au

Please include a description of the problem and as much information about your system as you can.
Helpful details include:

- Web browser Name and Version. e.g. Internet Explorer 5.01

- Operating System and Version. e.g. Windows XP

- Computer make and model and other details. e.g. Pentium 4 with 64MB of RAM.

- Internet connection type and speed. e.g. ADSL 512/128

Sydney Indymedia is an open collective, and therefore has several email lists which are open for anyone to join.  Be aware that posts to these lists are viewable by anyone from the web.

imc-sydney is the main organising list for the Syndey Indymedia collective. People joining other lists should join this one as well so there is a central place of co-operation.
http://lists.indymedia.org.au/mailman/listinfo/imc-sydney

These are the syndication links available from Sydney Indymedia. All Syndication is in RSS 2 format.

Featured articles - all articles appearing on the front page - http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/features/feed

Article Wire - includes stories, polls and blogs of all categories - http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/ArticleWire/feed

All News - http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/News/feed

Please email your suggestion for a new category to the Sydney IMC Content Collective.

DRAFT Policy Statement on IP logging Sydney Indymedia has adopted a policy of not logging the IP addresses of computers which are used to post, or read articles on our site. In the event that the website is attacked, or is overloaded with requests to the extent that the site is rendered unusable, we may turn IP logging on only for the time necessary to stop the disruption, and block offending IP addresses. The logging will be turned off when the problem is solved, the logs will be deleted, and a notice will be sent to the publicly archived organising list (either imc-sydney@cat.org.au, or imc-sydney-content@cat.org.au), notifying the collective of the actions taken.

Mission Statement

1. IMC Sydney is a news activist collective and an open publishing website.

2. The goal of the website is to have a place where articles produced by independent journalists can be published. One of the main reasons for having an IMC Sydney website is that it is a source of news not normally attainable in mainstream and commercial outlets with a distinct local to Sydney and NSW flavour.

3. IMC Sydney is committed to freedom of speech and non-censorship.