[Adminsysters] Who are we?

[Helen Varley Jamieson]

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)

also waving from the southern hemisphere, in the midst of 
moving-in-to-new-home chaos 😁

h : )

On 13.12.22 16:41, Nancy Mauro-Flude wrote:
> 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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