[OccupyComms] Newswire Invite - for distribution

[Mark Barrett]

Dear Friends

Please send this to all your local assembly contacts. Especially people
involved in external / international communications. Translations welcome,
and to follow.

*Inter-Assembly List and Global Newswire*

This is an invitation to join our Inter-Assembly Newswire project. It’s
being run by team members from Occupy/15M/PAN in the USA, Spain and London.
Please read the following information, and ask your Assembly's external and
international communications workgroups (or equivalent) to subscribe and
participate.
There are two aspects to this project: (1) the global email list and (2)
the decentralised blog-link, or global newswire. We are excited about the
newswire which allows you to 'news tag' your local blog posts for people to
follow and receive your news at the global level. Both platforms are
designed to maintain local assembly autonomy while also establishing clean
lines of inter-assembly communication, and are open-source so can be
utilised on other sites. You may subscribe to one or both (we recommend
both so we can monitor and make improvements).

Participation in the *Email List* requires only that your local workgroup
(i) subscribe and (ii) considers what assembly-endorsed messages to post
there [*]. Individuals may also subscribe, but only as observers.

Participation in the *Decentralised Blog-link/Global Newswire *requires
that you (i) set up a new posting category (on your local blog) and (ii)
send us the RSS feed. Similar posting guidelines apply to both platforms
[*].

Both are therefore simple to set up. More detailed info on the platforms,
and how to participate is as follows:

*(1) Email List*

A strictly moderated Assemblies-Only (ie. noise-free) email list[**], and
linked open source newswire. Subscribe individually as an observer or, to
obtain posting rights subscribe using your official assembly workgroup
email address (be ready to verify this, in the interests of transparency).

Subscribe here:

https://lists.takethesquare.net/mailman/listinfo/assemblies ( please ignore
security warning )
[**] Every post will also appear on a dedicated blog-space [location, to be
confirmed] as part of the global newswire. Further info on this platform is
set out (in ENG/FR/ESP/IT) at:
http://www.peoplesassemblies.org/2012/02/assemblies-only-email-list/

*(2) Global Newswire*

Once your local blog is linked in the www.peoplesassemblies.org platform
will live stream blog posts designated by your external communications
workgroup as of wider national or international interest while also linking
global subscribers back to your local assembly blog. Streamed content will
be geographically organised at the global level by continent, country and
city/region and, if your local group uses news tags appropriately [see (iv)
below and recommended!] also by issue / topic.

Linking your blog to the Global Newswire is simple*. Here's how:*

(i) *Create* *a new, uniquely designated category on your local blog* (eg
'PAN', ‘Assemblies’, ‘GA’ 'PA' or as you choose).

(ii) *Register (ie send) that designated RSS feed address to us* at:
pan-owner at lists.takethesquare.net
(iii) *Start posting* under your designated category local assembly content
your group deems of wider national or international interest [*] and watch
it appear on the global newswire :)

*IMPORTANT: Aim to **News Tag designated posts* *by topic wherever possible.
* The Global Newswire will work without it, but tagging will make it much
easier to organise content at the global level, so subscribers wil be
able to access the assembly content they are most interested in. General
tags like 'actions', 'democracy', 'economics', 'education', 'politics',
'corporations' 'global' and/or others could be used. Tagging works best if
similar tags are used worldwide, so you may wish to consult
http://wiki.occupy.net/wiki/Harmonized_groupings to see if there is a tag
that suits before posting.
Once the above is done, whenever you locally post to the designated
category (think 'newswire channel') the post will live-feed to the global
site (and other sites that choose to access or mirror newswire content)
appearing under continent, country, city/region and relevant topic :)

*[*] Please note: posts in the designated PAN category (as with the Email
list) should be*

A - Text/info/projects your local assembly has endorsed

B – Text / info your local, assembly-endorsed communications group wants to
broadcast to the wider world (eg communiques, minutes of meeting,
call-outs, political statements etc).

*More Info / Join the Team!*
- We are an open working group made up of an international team of
activists working in the Take the Square International, Inter-Occupy,
Occupy-Net, London International Commission, People's Assemblies and the
Global Square communications platforms.

- The www.peoplesassemblies.org site is being redesigned to facilitate the
newswire, and this will go live when we have RSS feeds from sufficient
assemblies. Our basic aim is to take the PAN project to support assemblies
worldwide by enabling reliable, effective and transparent communication
between all local people’s assemblies.

A link to the info in this message, plus details of our next weekly global
planning meeting (to which all are invited) is at
http://www.peoplesassemblies.org/newswire/

Love and Solidarity

Carolina, Larry, Dana, Ternura, Mark and the rest of the team
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