[Adminsysters] Fwd: [Femservers] updates on several autonomous/feminist infrastructures initiatives

[gaba]

Hi!

A couple of months ago a few of us applied to get funding for feminist servers gathering  (2 in this mail to the femservers)right before IFF and today it was approved.

Does any of you already is going to be at IFF?

gaba

> Begin forwarded message:
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> From: gaba <gaba at riseup.net>
> Subject: [Femservers] updates on several autonomous/feminist infrastructures initiatives
> Date: December 20, 2017 at 1:56:21 PM PST
> To: femservers at lists.systerserver.net
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I’m writing to get people up to date on several initiatives that are happening around autonomous(?) servers/services.
> 
> (1) There is a network of organizations that have autonomous services that is forming. There was a gathering in Montreal last July and now in November a gathering in Oakland. They are collectives like may first and riseup that want to work together on projects around capacity building, movement engagement, shared technology platforms, and shared technology infrastructure. There is a mailing list and is still in very early stages (as it still does not have name, governance model or decision making process).
> 
> (2) A few of us (from several groups) applied to get funding from OTF to bring people from feminist collectives to Valencia in March right before IFF. We still do not know if we get the funding or not but the idea would be to have a one day gathering with people maintaining services/servers to talk about
> - build a network of collectives and people to empower and support an autonomous infrastructure
> - map servers and services that exist right now
> - discover services that are not being provided and may be needed
> - understanding a network of people and collectives as a technology, develop it to nurture solidarity and mentorship among its nodes
> 
> I think if we do not get funding then it may just happen with the ones that are already attending IFF. If we get funding then we can organize it (maybe in this list?) and bring collectives that were not attending IFF.
> 
> 
> (3) Calafou (spideralex here) is proposing to gather at their community place near Barcelona to talk/hack around transhackfeminism. This would happen from March 10th to 15th.  There is no funding for this YET so for now it would be for the people attending IFF and that can afford to go to Barcelona. This is part of spideralex’s email: “we wanted to meet and chat about feminist servers (organise back-ups between us, installation of new services, documentation and good practices, legislation concerns for hosting certain feminist contents, sustainability models etc.), but it is open to other proposals in case people can come and want to organise other cyberfeminist activities and/or workshops (we also have DIY book scanner for scanning feminist fanzines, and a silkscreen station to make t-shirts and etc etc)"
> 
> (4) There are a couple of related sessions that were accepted for IFF so they will happen:
> 
> Brenna & Gaba: “Building feminist infrastructure” https://pad.riseup.net/p/O8pwMdoPYXy8
> Elijah, Brenna, Ian: "What will it take to kick the Google habit? A dialogue between service providers and users on the future ofautonomous infrastructure”  https://pad.riseup.net/p/infrastructure-iff-session
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> 
> 
> thoughts/comments?
> 
> love,
> gaba
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