For several years, San Francisco IMC has had all kinds of problems and organizational setbacks. Our problems have come from law enforcement, from server colocation facilities, from corporate legal departments, from within our own organization, and from people abusing IMC process for their own benefit (and attacking us in the process). Part of the problem is that SF-IMC does a lot of work for the global Indymedia network at large. Many of us are also involved in Linefeed and SFCCP and we maintain & support Indymedia's in Argentina, Turkey, Chile, Houston, and on and on.

This year, in particular, was hard for us. Just as we were internally ready to launch a whole new SF-IMC that we believe would revolutionize the way IMC's are used, there was an enormous server crisis. It was announced that ahimsa was going to stop hosting IMC sites. And it was announced that CCCP, where many IMC's were hosted, was also powering off. It fell on a small group of people to solve this crisis. To