[Adminsysters] Who are we?

[mara]

hi,

I made a pad to edit the _about_.
https://eth.leverburns.blue/p/systerserver-about

Thank you Nancy for your contribution.
Some thoughts:
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.
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.

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.

HTH
m

On 12/15/22 05:15, Helen Varley Jamieson wrote:
> 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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