Hi everyone,

There now is a London area web calendar for progressive events at the new London Indymedia web site -
http://londonontario.indymedia.org

You can get to the listings for the current month through links off of the main page of the Indymedia web site,
or by going here: http://londonontario.indymedia.org/?q=event

Anyone can add event listings to the calendar -- with or without an account on the site.  Anyone also can post without entering a name, let alone a real one.
To add an event listing click "Post to the site" (near the top left) and then click "Event".

(That process is almost identical to posting events at the London Commons.  The setup of the two sites should be even more in synch in the near future; on the Indymedia site we'll probably be changing the way you enter the "Body" text.)

Any event postings that are ...
pro- environmentalism  and/or  pro- peace  and/or  pro- social justice  and/or  pro- genuine democracy
... should be appropriate,
though we may not accept event postings with strong ties to political parties.  The calendar also likely will be very local.

I mention what the editors will and won't "accept" because additions to the calendar will be reviewed by us after they're posted (though anyone on the site can view them in the meantime; they're not kept in a queue).  We may remove postings.  If anything is removed from the calendar it will be moved to the "Hidden posts" section, which you can get to through a link near the top left.  (Advertising spam is an exception -- we usually just delete that.)  Ideally we wouldn't hide any posts, but there is a broadly progressive mandate behind the web site that we work to uphold.

That is how we approach other types of posts, and not just calendar listings, by the way (although without an account the only other material you can post is articles -- and not comments, forum posts, or polls).

Before long the Indymedia organizers will form a policy for the web calendar. The policy will be a loose one, since we don't want to be constraining, and since we're not bureaucrats.

In the meantime, you can get a feel for our approach by reading these documents:
http://freedom.2y.net/wiki/London_Indymedia/Editorial_policy
http://freedom.2y.net/wiki/London_Indymedia/Mission
(The text at those pages will be revised as well -- hopefully before long.  The "Principles of Unity" won't change though, since those are Indymedia network -wide.)

If you want to contribute to shaping our approach to the calendar and what not, come out to our meetings. Those meetings will be posted on the web calendar, and they should be posted here on the London Commons.

There also is a page here about getting involved:
http://freedom.2y.net/wiki/London_Indymedia/Join_or_support_us
That page could use some editing (as could all of the other pages on that wiki about London Indymedia), but the information at the page all seems to be valid.

Soon I'll be posting about the rest of the new web site.
You're all welcome to use it before then though.  The most important information is already included in this message.

Toban
one of the London Indymedia organizers
posting on behalf of the others