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

[Deb Nicholson]

It seems to me a mix of stats and anecdotes is what works the best in MVC
(and probably other medium format writings.)

I think we'd want to first identify the large problem we are talking about
(diversity in tech or a more specific aspect) and then delineate a few
inter-related cause of that problem that we address in our work (for
example: actual and/or perceived unwelcomeness, imposter syndrome, not
knowing where to start or go to for help) and then fill in those sections
with some relevant stats and a anecdote each, if possible. Maybe we'd
book-end with an intro about why we started doing this and a conclusion
that somehow talks (either optimistically or pessimistically) about what is
to be done next?

Just my two cents on a mostly writing day,
Deb


On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 8:32 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Publicity mailing list
>> Publicity at lists.openhatch.org
>> http://lists.openhatch.org/mailman/listinfo/publicity
>>
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Publicity mailing list
> Publicity at lists.openhatch.org
> http://lists.openhatch.org/mailman/listinfo/publicity
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openhatch.org/pipermail/publicity/attachments/20140627/4f453ea2/attachment.html>