Brainstorm
From Winter Camp INC
BRAINSTORM
Contents |
WHO ARE WE
- women and gender minorities
- transgenerational
- activist
WHO IS OUR AUDIENCE
- women and gender minorities
- Me/Us (creating communitie(s) Opening things up, looking into it, why, how does it work, free software and the support to use that)
- women who want to share & find solutions together to tech questions
- transgenerational
- lonely/isolated tech curious gals
HOW
- respect
- catalyst
- informal
- ad-hoc
- no competition
- self-evident
- open the door
- D-I-T
- D-I-Y
- D-I-W-O (Do It With Others)
- hands-on
- doing (learning by doing)
- learn by explaining
- selbstverstaendlich
WHAT
- no competition
- shared learning
- skills sharing
- open source
- free software
- share/be with other women
- valuing different kinds of knowledge
WHY
[motivation]
- humor
- creative
- satisfaction
- curious
- disconnected
- independant
- (feel) isolated
- cool
- not intimidated
- curious
- acceptance (sense of mutual acceptance)
- liberating
- fun!
[what we get out of it]
- comradery
- comfort
- confident
- benefits
- openness
- breaking barriers
- networking
- support
- sparking (interest in technology)
VISION
- world domination!!!
DISCUSSION POINTS
- consistency?
- local/internationally connected?
- money??
- Donations
- structure?
- How to deal with responsibilities
- How does the work get done
- breaking up tasks
- How to deal with unpaid work
- finding ways to let people 'help' in during work time (a new target group?)
- language
- How to bridge?
- Local Promotion
- Context Related
- make the GCA-in-a-box idea translatable
- Initiative/precarity
- hidden costs?
- Burn out
- don't bill for labour
- unpaid
- surplus time/assumption of free time
- hidden costs?
- communication
- to new members
- make it easier to be involved
- ideas about genderchangers more communicable to newbies
- Frameworks
- online archive? ie: for course outlines
- easy to use letterhead, invitation letter templates
- how to use our hard work again
- assumptions
- ideal
- adaptability
- IRL (In Real Life)?
- capable of adapting to different needs
- attention to context
- sustainability
- How do we engender this?
- How to manage
- is there an interest? (refers mainly to workshops)
- Wishlist of solutions
- website
- software solution
- to-do list that is shared
- to-do list for men who want to support GCA stuff
- way of listing 'job/work' needs