Querida Salete y tod@s,

Thanks for indicating some key points (I was hoping they would emerge)
in the budget proposal.

I think we need to discuss further in order to take a good - and
shared - decision.

Can we have one last online meeting on this, during this week?
Salete, please suggest a date and time.

I think we need to address the following:

1. The scope of the WSF office and its specific tasks with regards to
communication -- and where these become strategic or political
decisions which are the IC's and the Communication's commission's
responsibility.

Until we resolve this, it is difficult to say where the budget
allocation should go.  In this specific instance, I think it is the
WSF Office's responsibility to manage and keep the website and
database updated (stimulating contributions from and allowing access
to the IC and wsf organising committees), but not to create/develop
them - which is more a "political" responsibility involving the
Communication commission of the IC in particular, especially since we
agreed that we need to work to have the tools and websites developed
so far "converge" towards a common portal (so we need to design and
work on this together).  I personally have been proposing this for a
long time, but the collaborative efforts have been very low and
frankly, I fear that instead of a participatory process it might be
taken as just an operational task, which it is not.

So my proposal is that we set a "project budget" for the website(s)
and database, dedicated to the technical development, convergence and
maintenance of the wsf portal, which could be under the responsibility
of a new group to be formed in the IC comprising people from the
various commissions who should have input on what kind of
functionalities the renewed website should have.  This could solve a
problem of "dispersion" and multiplication of websites, of methodology
(registration of participants) and strategy (promotion of the debate)
as well as how to better make the expansion (languages, ways to
involve different movements) and the resources (online fundraising).
And someone from the wsfoffice to help with their experience of
day-to-day management as well as from communication, with all the
accumulated working groups experience.

This inter-commission group would then decide how to allocate the
funds after agreeing on the main features requested.


2. About Ciranda. It is not simply a matter of making equal divisions,
otherwise we would have to divide this budget into small insignificant
parts that won't allow us to do anything at all.  That said, I
certainly agree that Ciranda is not just a historical but an important
part of the wsf process and so is the radio forum and the other
initiatives that have been put forth.

The proposal from Ciranda sets some important challenges. I think it
would be very useful if we could discuss these further - in particular
when it says (from Rita's message):

"We perceive two demands from the Communication Commission in relation
to alternative media: interconnection between initiatives that produce
coverage of the WSF and the possibility of access to journalists who
have already participated in the WSF."

These are not two new demands: they have been the reason by which we
all decided that a facilitation of alternative media in the wsf
process was needed. So what has Ciranda been doing until now?  I am
not saying this in a polemic way -- I support Ciranda since the
beginning! And I don't want to upset anyone.  But I do think that from
the discussions had in the IC in Mexico and before, there is still
some ambiguity on whether Ciranda is a space of the wsf process or an
independent media itself. There is a difference and it could be
difficult to continue to justify why Ciranda should receive economic
support from the Commission's budget and not Terra Viva or other
historical initiatives that have covered the forums all these years.
Since I do think Ciranda has made significant efforts, I would like
this issue to be solved once and for all !


3. An occasion could be the public seminar on communication of the wsf
in Dakar.  It was proposed by Rita in Mexico but it hasn't been
discussed after that at all.  If we want to do this as a contribution
of the Communication commission, we need to decide it now and discuss
how to approach it, who will organise it, what is needed, how to
promote it, etc.  It would probably be more efficient if done together
with the African communication commission - but someone has to
initiate the debate!


4. Addressing Judith's request about interpreters at IC meetings -
please Nicolas, correct me if I'm wrong.  That is the responsibility
of the local organising committee who hosts the meeting and is part of
a separate budget.  I agree it should be a fixed cost - but it's not
in the Comcom's scope.  Maybe the liason group should discuss this?

I hope we can advance on all these issues, which are fundamental for
our present and future work.

In solidarity,
Jason


2010/9/16 salete valesan <salete.valesan@...>:
> Queridos/as da ComCom,
>
> Olhei os arquivos do openfsm.net e tenho as seguintes considerações:
> 1 - Tirar os dois valores que são do escritório (Banco de dados e Site
> processo)  e colocar no orçamento próprio, enviado para o
> Ibase/oficina/Brasil.
>
> 2 - Separar o valor que está como Rádio e Ciranda pois são dois projetos
> diferentes de Comunicação Compartilhada (10.000 para cada um deles para
> ficar igual aos outros). A menos que a Pia e Rita estejam concordando que
> fiquem juntos.
> Os projetos de Comunicação Compartilhada (Ciranda, rádio e TV) tem como
> objetivo o processo e a cobertura dos eventos, por isso, precisa ver o que
> será possível garantir pela ComCom.
>
> 3 - Sobre a participação da ComCom com um Seminário em Dakar terá algum
> recurso?
> Nicolas, é possível colocar no orçamento do projeto do evento do FSM2011 de
> Dakar?
>
> 4 - Sobre Memória: estamos conversando aqui no Brasil com algumas pessoas do
> governo e de empresas estatais para ver se é possível fazer um projeto. Se
> tivermos alguma novidade boa, avisamos.
>
> 5 - Sobre a participação dos Brasileiros em Dakar, para o FSM 2011: ainda
> não nos organizamos pois o Brasil está em período de eleições até final de
> outrubro de 2010.
>
> Bj
> Salete
>
>
>
> 2010/9/15 <hitchman@...>
>>
>> Dear all
>>
>> In terms of interpreting, please try to include Babel's participation in
>> meetings, as well as the booths for interpretation and a per diem/hotel
>> accommodation for interpreters (depending on the IC venue, local teams can
>> cover this work). It should cover 7 people: 6 in the booths + 1 at the
>> table...
>>
>> As always, this is a variable cost, so I have no idea how to budget it.
>>
>> In solidarity
>>
>> Judith
>> ---- Envoyé avec BlackBerry® d'Orange ----
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jason Nardi <jason.nardi@...>
>> Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 01:19:16
>> To: wsf com com<communication-commission-discussion@...>
>> Reply-To: communication-commission-discussion@...
>> Subject: [Communication commission discussion] Commission's budget
>> proposal
>>        2011-2012 - deadline this week!
>>
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> since after the last online meeting (september 6th) only a few
>> exchanges have taken place, I want to remind all who are interested
>> and active in the working groups to contribute with ideas and
>> proposals by next Friday 17th, which is the extension we were granted.
>>  Nicolas and the Resources commission need to put all the commissions'
>> basic budget proposals together in a general "wsf process" one for
>> 2011-2012.
>>
>> I have posted in the Resources part of the Com com space on
>> openfsm.net what I think could be a first version, based on the past
>> experiences and with all the limitations of having to deal with a
>> lower amount of expected resources.
>>
>> So please have a look and comment / integrate:
>> http://openfsm.net/projects/communication-commission/comcomfunding-wiki
>>
>> cheers,
>> Jason
>>
>>
>> [ESP]
>>
>> Hola a todos,
>>
>> ya que después de la reunión en línea pasado (06 de septiembre), sólo
>> unos pocos intercambios han tenido lugar, quiero recordar a todos los
>> que estén interesados y activos en los grupos de trabajo para
>> contribuir con ideas y propuestas para el viernes 17 sept., que es la
>> extensión que se les concedió. Nicolás y la Comisión de Recursos
>> necesidad de poner todas las propuestas de las comisiones en una
>> general del "proceso del FSM" para 2011-2012.
>>
>> He publicado en la parte de recursos del espacio com Com en
>> openfsm.net, lo que creo que podría ser una primera versión, basada en
>> las experiencias del pasado y con todas las limitaciones de tener que
>> lidiar con una menor cantidad de recursos previsto.
>>
>> Así que por favor eche un vistazo y comentario / integracion:
>> http://openfsm.net/projects/communication-commission/comcomfunding-wiki
>>
>> saludos,
>> Jason
>>
>>
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