[OH-Publicity] Ideas for Model-View-Culture

[Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

For context, the pitch email should take the format:

"Email us at modelviewculture at gmail.com with [IDEAS] in the subject line, a
description of your concept and any relevant information about you and your
work."


On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org> wrote:

> From the Shauna+Britta+Elana+Susan+Asheesh brainstorm about Model View
> Culture:
>
> <background>
>
> http://modelviewculture.com/contribute
>
> </background>
>
>
>
> <asheeshnotes>
>
> http://asheesh.org/note/debian/indians.html
>
> </asheeshnotes>
>
>
>
> <conversationnotes>
> mvc
>
> - paid labor
>
> - vague mental idea that open source was probably a good idea
>
> - who are these people who come to open source comes to campus? what state
> are they in?
>
> - "You are invited"
>   -
>
> - hobby thing vs. identity thing vs. useful thing
>
> - shauna wants to ... values...
>   - along the idea of identity, communities arising around shared values
>   - complicated the values of "open source people" to create a more
> diverse community
>   - self-learners...
>     - that's not the only way you have to be
>     - it takes people and gives them a little "Here are cultural values
> about open source"
>       "check it out, you almost fit here"
>   - adding imposter syndrome exercises
>   - demystifies things...
>   - and now you know the shape of it
>   - makes that path open in the future
>   - being able to visualize ... role modeling, representation
>   - britta took this clas on feminism, and later in her life, realized she
> could
>     become a feminist activist
>
> setting expectations
>
> - openstack
>
> - welcomebot
>
>
> the inequalities of leaving knowledge implicit
> - implicit knowledge is shared through close social relationships
> - explicit knowledge is freely shareable
>
> 1. OSCTC
>
> 91.5. Spinachcon/setup sprints
>
> expectation of failure
>
>
> 2. Merge Stories
>
>
>
>
> - free software's welcoming committee
>   -
>
>
> - MVC contributors -- julia pagano, presumably
>
>
>
>
> - ehashman says, Breaking down story the richard stallman image of free
> software
>
> - OPW
>
>
>
>
> by handholding people into open source, do we make it worse?
>
>
> merge stories
>
>
> ---
>
> what is the typical model view culture reader, and what do we want them
> to get out of the article?
>
> base assumptions:
>
> - diversity is good
>
> - power structures are important to pay attention to
>
> - there are problems in open source
>
> - talking about things is part of the solution
>
> - stories/anecodotes are useful, perhaps even better than data
>
>
>
> what have been good?
>
> - feminist hackerspace article
>
> - shanley's article on tech workers
>
> - 5 reasons not to raise venture capital
>
> - contrarian-ish
> </conversationnotes>
>
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