[Adminsysters] Who are we?

[Nancy Mauro-Flude]

HI Anne / All

offering forth some text for 'about page'  feel free to tweak:

The earliest known feminist web server collective is SysterServer.net 
launched on International Womxn’s Day, 8 March 2005, as an initiative of 
the Gender Changer Academy. The SysterServer.net offers services to 
feminist, queer and antipatriarchal groups and collectives. It provides 
an autonomous repository of resources and digital literacy support to 
womxn where it was, and still is, partially seeded from the Open Source 
and Free Software movements, which seek to incorporate principles of 
freedom in sharing information and source code for others to modify and 
extend to better suit holistic predilections.

The first web server of SysterServer.net was lovingly named Jean. The 
act of renaming the hardware webservers as Adele and Jean is contrary to 
heavily prescribed trajectories and metaphors in IT language, such as 
‘Master and Slave’, which was once typical when referring to 
computational hardware drives.  Attending to the persuasive power of 
metaphors and languages, as well as materials and bodies, that then 
script bio-socio-political life of humans and other life forms I 
important to SysterServer.net and feminist internet frontier allies.

The implementation of technical utilities and the related costs involved 
are conferred, administered, and maintained cooperatively with peers. In 
this way, feminist web servers are built, installed, co-designed, 
maintained, and autonomously determined by an intimate community of 
‘prosumers’ which bestows agency to the hands-on procedures beyond a 
typical consumer of off-the-shelf computational client user service.

Best Wishes from the southern hemisphere
Nancy


On 13/12/2022 10:53, Anne Roth wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I agreed to help write a short draft for the 'about page' of
> systerserver.town, explaining a little who runs it and what it's for,
> and what it isn't for.
> 
> Since it's a project by the systerserver collective I thought I'd
> start by describing what and who this group is, maybe by taking it
> from something that's been written before.
> 
> This is quite concise https://systerserver.net/ which is totally fine
> but is there more anywhere? Do you have pieces of text that was used
> for anything maybe? If not that's just as well, it doesn't have to be
> long at all. But if yes that would be super helpful.
> 
> Cheers,
> Anne
> 
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