[Adminsysters] Who are we?

[Gaba]

On 12/16/22 01:41, bolwerK wrote:
> 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].


Are we ok with this last paragraph from systerserver for who we are? 
bolwerk: can you incorporate the changes you are proposing into the text?

If that is fine then I will add it [0] to the systerserver.town site

cheers,

gaba

[0] pad in https://eth.leverburns.blue/p/systerserver-about


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> xm
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> 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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