[hs-equality] The history of this project, where should it go now?

[Bracken Dawson]

I spent most of this evening going through the surviving documentation and
watching the hangouts. I didn't know that this mailing list was actually
started for this project, I'm happy discussing the project verbosely here.

I think wordpress is a good place to draft and review blog posts, my
space's blog allows others to edit (one at a time) before someone with
access hits publish. I'd like to write news posts introducing two things I
only found out about this week: Queercon - who have a presence at many
conferences (such as DEFCON) and an epic conference badge. Their site seems
to still be downed by a hackaday post which has an entertaining comments
thread. And GX3 (previously GaymerX) - who are now 28 hours away from a
fully funded kickstarter for their gaming convention later this year. I saw
Jenn C also suggested a news about gender equality in STEM and may also be
requesting a wordpress login. How do others think we should draft these
posts?

I think the resources for spaces/events and the badges thing we can give to
spaces & events that meet guidelines should be a high priority rather than
an "eventually" goal, it's an excellent way of doing search engine
optimisation. Also, is it appropriate to have "you shouldn't discriminate
against any kind of hacking" as a requirement? My space definitely allows
any kind of hacking, but there are some events and spaces (not necessarily
hackerspaces) that have a topic, but equality in all other respects is
still important.

Itching to get typing basically, but I don't want the ability to press
publish on anything. Are we going to do hangouts again or just use this
list?

Regards,
Bracken

:wq

On 16 September 2014 20:08, Rubin Abdi <rubin at starset.net> wrote:

> Breaking off the previous thread into a few different things.
>
> So a bunch of us that wanted to make this thing happen had a few
> meetings and a lot of email discussion on this list. If you've got the
> chance and feel like it, I would highly recommend going through all that
> as there's some golden stuff there....
>
> http://lists.hackerspaces.org/pipermail/equality/
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpXOAtS6dO4
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rApJRiOc1w
>
> We also sort of have a corner of the Hackerspaces.org wiki, with a very
> preliminary mission statement (which a better more edited version sadly
> got eaten up by riseup's etherpad after none of us touched it for a
> month). It's kind of hard to grasp what the original goals were, and I'm
> also having a hard time finding any emails of mine that described our
> original intentions, so I felt like I should write something here for
> posterity. I'll leave it up to others who want to have more stake in
> this onto what direction they want to take the site/group into.
>
> * Lay out a general guideline for what what equality means within the
> hacker/maker/tech scene/spaces
> ** Outline that prejudiced isn't just limited to getting picked on
> through label of gender, sexual configurations and/or race, but even
> things like getting railed on/cornered out for things like operating
> system preferences or being told arts and crafts are not hacking and
> don't belong in a space.
> ** Utilize this vector of helping those who don't understand what it's
> like to be ostracized from a group because of one of the more major
> issues when they most likely have have the same feelings through
> something minor (i.e. "it hurt to be told vim is better than emails, now
> imagine what if that was your identity"
>
> * Eventually start to partner up with spaces/groups that adopt and
> follow through with these guidelines.
>
> * Provide a community, safe space, to discuss relevant topics and to
> provide outreach to those who've been potentially hurt
> ** The website
> ** Mailing list
> ** Monthly video chat meeting things
> ** Panels at cons
> ** Meetups in person!
>
> * Provide resources to all groups on how to make things in this realm of
> suckage suck a lot less.
> ** Our own content
> ** Links to other sites
>
> That's most of what I remember, and maybe should go onto the wiki.
> Anyhow, I'm hoping this will prompt some discussion about specifically
> this, what do we want to do? :)
>
> --
> Rubin
> rubin at starset.net
>
>
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