Welcome to Indymedia GB

Due to overwhelming demand, this blog has been set up to facilitate the organisational needs of Indymedia GB, while the new techs get the site sorted. They're looking into drupal, which our favourite indy, Urbana-Champaign has promised to help us with.

For too long Indymedia UK has been run by an unelected elite who use the site for their own ends.

Indymedia GB intends to redress the balance and provide "media by the people, for the people".

Details of the next meeting will be posted up shortly.

Meanwhile, here are details of developments so far:

"NEW INDYMEDIA GB SITE

A meeting was held at the weekend concerning the new Indymedia GB site. Generally positive although the inevitable gripes over who is paying for what, policies, etc etc.

The official application to the Indymedia 'Mother Site', Indymedia.org has been sent although no notification has yet been received.
What was wonderful to see and hear was the level of enthusiasm from so many, I guess about 25 people attended the meeting but we had emails from many more than that wishing us success and making practical suggestions.
We now have three servers, a place to keep them, a guarantee of at least four years electricity to run it all and of course the all important software to enable the publishing. My guess is end of April the site will be live with a couple of articles concerning an interview that was done with the head of EasyJet (nice one Julian !) while he was at a conference in London.

So far we have kept everything low key and semi secret because there have been those from the Indymedia UK site trying to screw things up but later in the month we will be having a full launch with site details on about 400 blogs worldwide. In addition we have agreement from the BBC to do a piece on us which will be entitled,
"New Media Journalism"

More details to follow.

Regards

The Indymedia GB Team"