Thanks for the update. I am not attending this time though I will be in Accra on 29 August. 
Hope to meet Wilna  and other frineds.  
Wilna could you please send me your cell phone number. 

Best regards,

Ahmed


On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 Elvira Truglia wrote :
>Dear all,
>
>I echo Gabi's comments - the OM7 programme looks great. I couldn't attend
>this year but am definitely with you in spirit!
>
>As Gabi has reported in a number of e-mails, at OM6 in Sydney, a number
>of working groups (WG) were set up to follow-up on different issues/tasks
>related to the OM network:
>
>WG1: Organizing structure ('OURgovernance')
>WG2: Communications Infrastructure
>WG3: Next Conference
>
>I agreed to facilitate WG2 - Communications Infrastructure.
>
>As a reminder about the rationale for setting up a communications working
>group -- as explained at the OURFuture meeting at OM6 in Syndey, the
>communications infrastructure has been put together piece meal over the last
>number of years and has gotten very messy. The idea of the working group is
>to hopefully tidy things up. The housecleaning list includes: server
>hosting, mailing lists, wiki, web sites (conference & network), translation
>of content, and more.
>
>Here's what we've done since Syndey:
>-Set up mailing lists for each working group (currently hosted on
>Clemencia's university server - https://lists.ou.edu/)
>-Set up a new OURMEDIA WEb site (http://Ourmedianet.org) using an
>interactive content management system (Drupal) (thanks to Russell Kerr!!)
>-Decided on a new ISP - http://www.ecohosting.net/ (Ecohosting is a socially
>responsible ISP in Montreal, Canada)
>-Decided on a funding the new ISP through individual contributions by
>members of the working group (thanks to all who volunteered to contribute!)
>
>Still to be done (in progress):
>-finish transferring content to the new site
>-finish Spanish version of the new site
>-ensure transfer of web site content to the new ISP
>-ensure follow-up on contributions for setting up new ISP
>-set up current mailing lists on the new ISP and transfer e-mail addresses
>
>Questions for OM7 in Ghana:
>-pass the ball on coming up with a system for funding the ISP in the future
>-are you happy with the work of the WG2 so far and shall we continue?
>-does anyone else have time and energy to contribute?
>
>Current members of the WG2 (joined in Sydney or during the last year)
>Leo Berkeley
>Ampara Cadavid
>John Downing
>Alfonso Gumucio Dragon
>Usha Harris
>Deborah Heimann
>Faheem Hussain
>Russell Kerr
>Dorothy Kidd
>Stefania Milan
>Frederick Noronha
>Geraldine Peters
>Jethro Pettit
>Clemencia Rodriguez
>Juan Salazar
>Verena Thomas
>Elvira Truglia
>Adelaida Trujillo
>
>Wishing you all a great conference and looking forward to hearing about how
>everything went!!!
>
>Best,
>
>Elvira Truglia
>
>p.s. if someone could translate this message into Spanish, it would be
>greatly appreciated!
>
>p.p.s. Wilna - could you include this in the discussions in the OURFuture meetings in Ghana? (Russell - maybe you could speak on behalf of our working group?)
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
> From: "G G" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 1:58 PM
>Subject: [E] Updates from Working Groups?
>
>
> > Hi OUR MEDIA friends-
> >
> > I see from the Conference
> > Organizing Group that plans are getting concrete for the next conference.
> > Could we have a quick update from this working group and the others?
>Contact
> > persons... Clemencia, elvira, gabi, jethro.
> > Details on working groups and possible projects is pasted below from our
> > wiki.
> >
> > G
> >
> > ====================================================
> > http://om6.engagemedia.org/index.php/Working_Groups
> > ====================================================
> > Working Groups
> > Since 2004 OURMedia/NUESTROS Medios had been organized through the
>'steering
> > committee' list . However, it became clear that one group is not enough.
>At
> > the OURFuture Plenary in Sydney, a system of Working Groups was set up.
>The
> > working groups organized through listservs and document their work on wiki
> > pages (collectively edited webpages like this one). Any ourmedia member is
> > free to join, read archives and/or comment.
> > --> to join a working group, contact the facilitator
> > --> to check what the working groups have been doing, go to the archive
>and
> > wiki page of each list
> >
> > OURMedia Plenary List
> > This is the OURmedia 'Virtual Plenary' to which all OURMedia Members are
> > subscribed.
> > Facilitator: Clemencia Rodriguez e-mail: clemencia (AT) ou.edu
> > List address= Ourmedia-l (at) lists.ou.edu
> > Archives: http://lists.ou.edu/archives/ourmedia-l.html
> >
> > Central Coordinating List
> > The old 'steering committee' list will probably be used to coordinate the
> > working groups. Details to be discussed by WG1.
> >
> > WG1: Organizing structure ('OURgovernance')
> > facilitators G_abi H_adl email: k70 (AT) mac.com , Janey Gordon;
> > List Address: OMIVOUTREACH (AT) lists.ou.edu ;
> > WG1 List Archives
> > WG1 Wiki
> >
> > WG2: Communication Infrastructure
> > facilitator E_lvira T_ruglia e-mail: e_truglia(AT)sympatico.co
> > List address: OMIVANNOUNCE(AT)lists.ou.edu
> > WG2 List Archives
> > WG2 Wiki
> >
> > WG3: Next Conference
> > facilitator Clemencia Rodriguez e-mail: clemencia (AT) ou.edu
> > List address= OMIVPROGRAM (at) lists.ou.edu
> > WG3 List Archives
> > WG3 Wiki
> >
> > WG4: Funding, Publications & Special Projects
> > facilitator: Jethro Pettit e-maiL J.Pettit (AT) ids.ac.uk
> > List address TBA
> > List Archives TBA
> > WG4 Wiki
> >
> > Other issues that await addressing and/or working group formation:
> > outreach e.g. to specific geographies, to our own home constituencies
> > (raised at Sydney Plenary)
> > discussion on outreaching more, e.g. absence of aboriginal peoples (at
> > Plenary)
> > name confusion with ourmedia.org (longstanding unresolved issue)
> > annoted Bibliography of ourmedia related books and people
>(OURBibliography?
> > OURMediaPedia?) -- suggestion by lisa.stefanoff(AT)nyu.edu 4/2007
> >
> >
> > ----------------
> > OTHER IMPORTANT INFO
> > ----------------------
> >
> > * Working Groups Wiki
> > http://om6.engagemedia.org/index.php/Working_Groups
> > Please check this site periodically and make changes as necessary. :)
> >
> > * Check periodically what's happening in other ourmedia working groups:
> > http://om6.engagemedia.org/index.php/Working_Groups
> >
> > *  OURMedia/NUESTROSMedios Main Site:
> > A network of alternative, community & citizens media research and practice
>:
> > http://Ourmedianet.org
> >
> > * 6th Conference: Sydney, April 9-13, 2007 : http://www.ourmedia07.net/
> >
> > * 6th Conference Documentation: http://om6.engagemedia.org/
>
>
>
>


Ahmed Swapan Mahmud
Executive Director
VOICE
House 67, Level-5, Block-Ka
Pisciculture Housing Society
Shyamoli, Dhaka-1207
Bangladesh
Tel : 88-02-8158688
E-mail : [log in to unmask]
Web : www.voicebd.org