[Adminsysters] Who are we?

Thu Dec 15 13:41:58 CET 2022

Thanks mara for making the pad - and all the contributions.

We do understand to write a collective text is an intense process and we 
were involved some sessions (_when is the next one?_) and had good 
discussions.
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.

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 
https://zoiahorn.anarchaserver.org/a-fair-new-idea-a-feminist-video-streaming-platform/ 
and we lso like the text mara was pasting in the pad.

Also to coin the 'earliest know feminist server' is pretentious and 
arrogant for me - taking a quiet colonial stance,  [who knows].

xm

On 15/12/2022 12:31, mara wrote:
> 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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>>
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