[Adminsysters] European Network bid and Syster Server

[Nancy Mauro-Flude]

Hi Anne
You have some excellent points.

Protocols are important to consider.

At a glace
https://fullstackfeminismdh.pubpub.org/

  this is run by cloudapp.azure.com /  MailChimp.

Large funded projects forming relations with Feminist co-op 
Infrastructure somehow could do with respecting some fundamentals of 
grassroots feminist tech.



On 08/10/2024 21:40, 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
>>> Neurodiversity Staff Network 
>>> <https://www.sussex.ac.uk/equalities/networks/staffnetworks/neurodiversity>// | 
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>>> Sussex Digital Humanities Lab 
>>> <https://www.sussex.ac.uk/research/centres/sussex-humanities-lab/> | 
>>> core member
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>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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