I'm back in town, but unfortunately can't make the meeting this eve, which
is especially disappointing because it sounds especially awesome.
I added a few notes to the Draft Principles on the meeting minutes.
I also drafted an "Engage with history" principle. I didn't add it to the
minutes since it's pretty long, but I'll paste it below. Maybe a shorter
version would be appropriate? I wonder what people think.
Looking forward to seeing you all soon!
--Benny
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* Engage with history
** Actively seek out the histories you depend on, are a part of, and
contribute to. Some histories will inspire pride, and others will try to
invoke shame, guilt, and pain. Consider these histories at personal, group,
and institutional levels of abstraction.
** Personal
*** You have a unique history (maybe several) that determine who you are,
what your perspective is, what you care about, what your priorities are,
etc. Rather than trying to minimize, ignore, or elide the historical
narratives you are a part of, feel empowered to engage with those histories
if you so choose.
*** In other words: you are not a replaceable tool suddenly birthed from
the aether with the sole purpose of building (in this case) a people’s open
network (as many for-profit institutions might have you believe, in the
name of efficiency). You are a historical and contemporary being, and you
have influenced and been influenced by various social and economic forces.
Some of these forces can be usefully identified with common stereotypes
(like race, class, gender, etc.), and others cannot yet be identified,
perhaps for lack of language.
** Group
*** Just like you, the sudomesh group has a history and identity that has
shaped its artifacts and operations for several years. It has habits, likes
and dislikes, modes of working that come easy and others that come less
easy. The history of the group is largely the result of the past and
present decisions made by its members and the communities with which the
group has worked.
** Institutional
*** Sudomesh/People’s Open Network engages with several
institutions/technologies that have extremely long and causally important
histories. We meet in the Omni Commons, a re-purposed building, on
colonized land in Oakland, California. We organize ourselves to connect and
empower local communities with computer networking technology closely
related to the internet. We (historically) coordinate our efforts on a
volunteer basis, co-operatively and democratically.
On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 2:41 PM, <mai(a)peoplesopen.net> wrote:
I forgot to mention that this Tuesday will be a
special meeting!
We're going to talk about what principles and values we want to embody as
a project. The below are *draft principles* that I thought could be hacked
on as a group:
** Collaboration over competition*
** Be a team player. We're on the same team and want to achieve the same
things.
** People/communities over technology*
** Regarding how and what technologies we use, we should carefully weigh
how its use reflects our values as a community.
** Paying attention to the way people actually use technology is more
important than chasing cutting edge tools or methods.
** Experiment and iterate*
** Improvise. Iterate. Ask questions. Give ourselves permission to not
know and to make mistakes. Find freedom in uncertainty.
If you have ideas on principles that we think are important for us to
uphold, please add them to the meeting minutes. I've added a few ideas,
many of them lifted from other principles such as the International
Co-operative Alliance's 7 Principles for Cooperatives.
If you would like to remotely join the discussion via Zoom, please let me
know by Tuesday morning and I'll set that up.
M
May 4, 2018 10:25 AM, mai(a)peoplesopen.net wrote:
Hey there,
This is your weekly reminder to add any topics you'd like to be discussed
at the People's Open Network meeting on Tue 8 May 2018, 7:30 - 9:00 PM PT.
Please add your discussion item(s) where it says "== Discussion: X ==" or
"== Proposal: X ==" and include any concise, relevant comments to inform
the discussion. Remember to also add the topic at the top under Agenda.
If you add something, we expect you to come to the meeting to give some
context and lead that discussion.
Thanks,
Mai
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