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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Thanks mara for making the pad - and
all the contributions. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">We do understand to write a collective
text is an intense process and we were involved some sessions (<u>when
is the next one?</u>) and had good discussions.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">With this 'about page', we feel that it
is about systerserver - and not about the Instance Systertown,
which has a different genealogy and maybe intent.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">If about is about systerserver, also
with the vocabulary used in the last paragraph, we can't identify
. Prosumers/consumers/services/utilities.... in the last year(s)
we did a bit of more speculative and imaginative voicing of our
praxis. Here are is a blogpost we are currently publishing ... in
which we were asked to define us and our activities..; at the
bottom you also have the radio interview with mur.at <a
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href="https://zoiahorn.anarchaserver.org/a-fair-new-idea-a-feminist-video-streaming-platform/"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://zoiahorn.anarchaserver.org/a-fair-new-idea-a-feminist-video-streaming-platform/</a>
and we lso like the text mara was pasting in the pad.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Also to coin the 'earliest know
feminist server' is pretentious and arrogant for me - taking a
quiet colonial stance, [who knows].<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">xm<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 15/12/2022 12:31, mara wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:1a754520-9ff7-7e3c-320f-dca0ba16a937@multiplace.org">hi,
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I made a pad to edit the _about_.
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://eth.leverburns.blue/p/systerserver-about">https://eth.leverburns.blue/p/systerserver-about</a>
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Thank you Nancy for your contribution.
<br>
Some thoughts:
<br>
The text below, misses parts about trans rights. In an interview
with MELT last spring, and now in the editing process of the
interview to prepare it for publication, we received feedback
telling that our trans inclusion is not visible. I can forward
their feedback here. So good to reflect on that.
<br>
The text below also refers to the colonial language in IT, but
doesn't tell how is circumvented or subverted to adele/jean
naming. if we include it we need to make that link visible, I
feel.
<br>
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Moreover the current sysadmins of systerserver, me including, we
try to avoid the use "services" in our vocabulary, and we haven't
used the term "prosumers". So there is terminology that needs more
reflection of the current narrations we have been using in our
communications with artists, activists and institutions. I have
included in the pad as an inspiration, a recent summary that we
wrote for a fund to do some peertube workshops.
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HTH
<br>
m
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On 12/15/22 05:15, Helen Varley Jamieson wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">this sounds good to me. one typo, near the
end of the second paragraph it should be "and other life forms
*is* imporant to ... " (not I)
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also waving from the southern hemisphere, in the midst of
moving-in-to-new-home chaos 😁
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h : )
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On 13.12.22 16:41, Nancy Mauro-Flude wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">HI Anne / All
<br>
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offering forth some text for 'about page' feel free to tweak:
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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.
<br>
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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.
<br>
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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.
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Best Wishes from the southern hemisphere
<br>
Nancy
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On 13/12/2022 10:53, Anne Roth wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">Dear all,
<br>
<br>
I agreed to help write a short draft for the 'about page' of
<br>
systerserver.town, explaining a little who runs it and what
it's for,
<br>
and what it isn't for.
<br>
<br>
Since it's a project by the systerserver collective I
thought I'd
<br>
start by describing what and who this group is, maybe by
taking it
<br>
from something that's been written before.
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This is quite concise <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://systerserver.net/">https://systerserver.net/</a> which is
totally fine
<br>
but is there more anywhere? Do you have pieces of text that
was used
<br>
for anything maybe? If not that's just as well, it doesn't
have to be
<br>
long at all. But if yes that would be super helpful.
<br>
<br>
Cheers,
<br>
Anne
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