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

[Donna Metzlar]

Hi Gaba,

Congratulations, that's great!

I will look into going. The Internet Freedom Festival is from 5-9 March
in Valencia, Spain right?

Donna

On 01/10/2018 04:18 AM, gaba wrote:
> 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:
>>
>> *From: *gaba <gaba at riseup.net <mailto: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
>> <mailto: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
>>
>>
>>
>> thoughts/comments?
>>
>> love,
>> gaba
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