hi steve, just a short to thank you for establishing this forum and maintaining for so long. best wishes, chris kabwato Director Southern Africa Communications for Development (SACOD) 1st Floor, Braamfontein Centre 23 Jorissen Street, 2001 P O Box 30609 Braamfontein 2017 Johannesburg SOUTH AFRICA Tel: (27-11)403 8472/71/16 Fax: (27-11)403 8474 website: www.sacod.org.za -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Steve Smith Sent: 11 July 2003 10:06 To: AFRICAN CINEMA Subject: Changes coming at the African Cinema Conference... Sade Turnipseed coming in as moderator Dear fellow subscribers: It has been over six years now since this list server started. Back at the FESPACO of 1997, we had a meeting of African film and video distributors and decided to set up a list server to serve as a much needed communication link among us. In those days email was new, and list servers pretty much unheard of, but I was in the computer business as well, and I offered to set it up and moderate it. In a couple years it grew to 200 members, where it has remained since. We've averaged a couple postings a week. I'm very happy to announce that Sade Turnipseed ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has volunteered to take over the moderation of the list server. She'll introduce herself to you all soon, so I won't attempt to do so, but I've met her several times at various African cinema events, and know she'll do a great job for us all. She plans to put out a call for a group discussion, on whether a re-focus of the list server is in order, and will request submissions from everyone as to what the "new" mission statement of the African Cinema Conference should be. Media for Development International (MFDI) will continue to cover the costs for the list server ($6-9 a month) for the rest of this year, and thereafter, we leave it to Sade to find a way to cover these costs. I will soon do a posting on the other related list servers that I have been receiving - and often cross-posting from. Some of you may wish to also join these directly. I've done this before, and for a long time now, have planned on doing a complete posting on all these other, mostly funded list servers that I have enjoyed for years now. I encourage you all to stay subscribed and enjoy Sade's fresh approach and the reinvigoration of the African Cinema Conference. I certainly look forward to continuing as a subscriber. I want to thank you all for the feedback I've received from so many subscribers. It has been an honor to be involved in this small initiative and I do feel that it has accomplished its goal of helping us all keep a bit more informed about African Cinema. I have enjoyed the time I've invested and I am sorry to be seeing that come to an end. But I'm extremely happy that Sade has stepped forward to take up the task, and I'm sure she will guide the list server to new and better things. With very best regards, Cheers, Steve Smith Media for Development International www.mfdi.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to african-cinema-conference as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, forward this message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to african-cinema-conference as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, forward this message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
