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

Deb Nicholson deb at eximiousproductions.com
Fri Jun 27 19:47:46 UTC 2014


That sounds fantastic! It sounds like you have a good sense of where to go
and I think that the implicit/explicit take will go over well at MVC.

I'm happy to be another pair of eyes or a proofreader, if you need one.
Cheers,
Deb


On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Deb,
>
> In our in-person discussion, we talked about whether or not to aim for a
> "101" content/theme, given MVC's typical audience. Britta and I are leaning
> towards an article that talks specifically about implicit knowledge vs
> explicit knowledge in open source and how the ways implicit knowledge is
> passed (through social networks) reinforce inequality.  We'd then talk
> specifically about the things OpenHatch (and other efforts like OPW,
> Ascend, etc) are doing to make open source knowledge explicit.
>
> ~ Shauna
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Deb Nicholson <
> deb at eximiousproductions.com> wrote:
>
>> 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>
>>>>
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