[Themaintainers] A Maintainers Acknowledgement?

[Alexandra Ketchum]

As part of the Disrupting Disruptions: Feminist and Accessible Publishing,
Communications, and Technologies Speaker and Workshop Series, I have been
doing a land acknowledgement that speaks to the impact of the virtual world
on the physical lands-- so the servers, the materials that have been mined
to create our computers, and so forth. You can hear it in the Rose Eveleth
video on
https://www.feministandaccessiblepublishingandtechnology.com/p/videos.html.
It isn't in every video, but definitely in the Rose Eveleth one beginning
around the 90 second mark: https://youtu.be/NPSPlGvFplg?t=85

On Sun, May 30, 2021 at 8:09 AM Camille Acey <connect at camilleacey.com>
wrote:

> I'm toying with the idea of instead of doing land acknowledgements (which
> are all the rage amongst leftie settlers on "indigenous land")  that people
> -- particularly academics and other such book hawkers-- doing online panels
> and lectures acknowledge the platform and server and laptop and chips and
> miners who had to extract those chip materials. The wifi and underwater
> cable installers and servicers. The university admins, the publishers, and
> the underpaid bookstore workers.  The trees that were cut down and pulped
> to print their books. The libraries. The students squeezed broke or put
> into debt by the university admisssion. The purveyors of university
> endowments and other such wealthy benefactors, and more importantly the
> workers that enabled that largesse.
>
> Has anyone seen or done a Maintainers Acknowledgement? Would it make sense?
>
> Camille
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Alexandra (Alex) Ketchum, PhD

Faculty Lecturer at the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist
Studies at McGill University

Director of the Just Feminist Tech and Scholarship Lab
<http://www.justfeministtechandscholarshiplab.com/p/about.html>

Founder of Disrupting Disruptions: disruptingdisruptions.com

The Feminist and Accessible Publishing, Communications, and Technologies
Series

Creator of The Feminist Restaurant Project: thefeministrestaurantproject.com

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