[Adminsysters] European Network bid and Syster Server

[nats wessax]

hi anne,

i like your questions a lot, and i think we should definitely keep 
asking them! in the case of this particular request for collaboration 
with academia, systerserver is asked to be included in the training of 
the researchers (and not as the field of research). so it would actually 
be a chance to teach and include critical, non-extractivist approaches 
and feminist pedagogies in our training if we go for it -- which i find 
very cool and important.

greetings!

nate

On 10/8/24 12:40, Anne Roth wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I used to be a lot more critical towards academic research on activism 
> than I am these days. (More or less along the lines: Not all details 
> of activist organizing need to be fully visible for those we organize 
> against. Also: sometimes there's more research on a given topic than 
> actual activism.)
>
> I think feminist tech infrastructures are a maybe bit of a different 
> kind of activism and it's nice that people use their time and 
> resources to document, ask questions, think and publish so that it is 
> a little more accessible for later generations.
>
> But I'd like to suggest to have some criteria in facing research and 
> the researchers. Maybe asking to answer some basic questions like:
>
> What's the aim of the research? What do you want to find out? How did 
> you get interested in the topic, and us?
>
> What is your own role? How do you define your approach to this research?
>
> Is the research purely academic or are other partners involved? Who 
> and what is their interest?
> (This can be both good or bad, e.g. it would be nice to know when 
> there partners that are (h)activist, too, or parts of social movements 
> of any kind. But could also be companies with a completely different 
> interest.)
>
> Who's funding the research?
>
> Will the outcome of the research be published, and publicly accessible 
> (without having to pay fees to access scientific publications)? Maybe 
> ask for a publication with a CC license.
>
> Will you let us know about the outcomes once the research is finished?
>
> How open or closed is the research process? Is it possible to follow 
> it online in any way, maybe even comment?
>
> Do you plan to use your research to foster public debate? In which 
> way? Will you feed it back into the communities of feminist tech 
> infrastructure?
>
>
>
> What do you think?
>
> Anne
>
>
> Am 08.10.24 um 11:57 schrieb nats wessax:
>> hello cecile,
>>
>>
>> this sounds very interesting, thanks for reaching out! i made a poll 
>> to check our availabilities for a meeting: 
>> https://transitional.anarchaserver.org/date/studs.php?poll=f5NwCgKev2wFPTNo
>>
>>
>> (and this is the admin link, in case you want to add more dates: 
>> https://transitional.anarchaserver.org/date/adminstuds.php?poll=f5NwCgKev2wFPTNouIj78HRZ) 
>>
>>
>>
>> also, it would be cool if you could share a pad in preparation to our 
>> meeting,
>>
>>
>> looking forward!
>>
>>
>> nate // systerserver
>>
>>
>> On 9/30/24 20:00, Cecile CHEVALIER wrote:
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> Following  on building  a /fullstackfeminism / toolkit and platform 
>>> - https://fullstackfeminismdh.pubpub.org/ 
>>> <https://fullstackfeminismdh.pubpub.org/>  - we are putting together 
>>> a European Doctoral Network bid (deadline Nov 2024), which involves 
>>> four universities located in Ireland, France, Germany, and here in 
>>> the UK. The bid would result in ten + PhD students carrying out 
>>> research related to intersectional feminist approaches to 
>>> technology. We are keen to ensure an element of this work relates to 
>>> full stack feminism and autonomous feminist infrastructures.  So of 
>>> course Syster Server came to mind.
>>>
>>> Essentially, the doctoral network has capacity to include 
>>> non-academic partners as either providing some sort of training to 
>>> the doctoral cohort, and/or supporting a secondment over the 3 year 
>>> programme. The cost of these would be included in the budget and are 
>>> therefore open for discussion in terms of the resource required to 
>>> support this.
>>>
>>> Do let me know if  more info is needed at this point or/and perhaps 
>>> a meeting to discuss how Syster Server might be interested in this?
>>>
>>> Many thanks, cecile
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> //
>>> Dr Cécile Chevalier  (she/her)
>>> Senior Lecturer in Digital Media
>>> Faculty of Media, Arts & Humanities
>>> University of Sussex
>>>
>>> digital arts + research | http://cecilechevalier.net/ | Full Stack 
>>> Feminism in Digital Humanities 
>>> <https://fullstackfeminismdh.pubpub.org/>
>>> sussex profile| https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p235751-cecile-chevalier
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>>> Sussex Digital Humanities Lab 
>>> <https://www.sussex.ac.uk/research/centres/sussex-humanities-lab/> | 
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>>>
>>>
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