Earlier updates can be found here:

Bristol Indymedia ‘Future Directions’ Document 2007
 http://bristol.indymedia.org/newswire.php?story_id=25653

Redesign Update : Now Accepting Dorset, Devon, Cornwall (Kernow)
 http://bristol.indymedia.org/newswire.php?story_id=26472

For an ongoing debate about the future of Bristol Indymedia, see:

Sustaining Alternative Media - Bristol Indymedia to Bristol Social Forum
 http://bristol.indymedia.org/newswire.php?story_id=26979


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Since the closure of West Country IMC we have attempted to fill that gap as best we can, with the limited resources and volunteer time available.

As a category South West can be used for those articles which do not exactly fit any of the regions already listed. All of these regions will be shown in full, and easily linked to, in our redesigned site, to be unveiled and launched hopefully sometime before New Year.


Here are some suggested uses for the South West Category:

1.) Articles with a clear South West content, such as articles about South West development agencies, South West transport plans, etc.

2.) Calls for solidarity events, or actions, from one region to another. Posting these events at a South West level will give them a higher, and more inclusive profile (on our new site) than simply reposting into one of the other regions.

3.) South West level Conferences, Demonsrations, etc.

4.) While we do hide, and will continue to hide, posts not of a South West relevance, we do informally accept occasional keynote articles from areas just beyond these borders, or some international calls for solidarity events, where the effort has been made to make it relevant to the regions. Please Note: We reserve the right to hide such postings, especially general cut n paste articles more suited to UK Indymedia.
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk


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AN IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT THE REGIONS:

When uploading articles it is especially important that you take the care to choose the region most suited to your posting. This will make it far easier for other people in your area to find events or news of particular relevance to them.

We have just completed an exhaustive reassignment of our archives, much of which pre-dated our listing of separate regions, but even in the last year there has been a tendency to automatically choose Bristol as a region, even when the article is say, concerned with Bath.

Not choosing the correct region is of detriment to the visibility of the campaign you care about, as well as creating unnecessary work for volunteers, if we decide to do a future reassignment of incorrectly entered articles.

These are the regional options:

Bristol
Somerset
Bath
Wiltshire
Dorset
Gloucestershire
Devon
Kernow / Cornwall
South West

All of these will be listed in full on our redesigned site.

Please feel free to add any comments you may have.

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GETTING INVOLVED

If you would like to get involved in the running and development of Bristol Indymedia, please come along to our next meeting:

17th December. 8pm, at the Hillgrove Pub, Hillgrove Street North (off Dove Street), Kingsdown, Bristol, BS2 8LT.
 http://www.britishpubguide.com/cgi-bin/pub.cgi?results:Bristol:285

 http://bristol.indymedia.org