Changes between Version 15 and Version 16 of techies_of_color

Timestamp:

Aug 26, 2010, 8:31:00 PM (15 years ago)

Author:

alfredo

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techies_of_color

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  * our commitment to Free and Open Source Software makes us central to a struggle that is fundamental to the Internet's future;
 
-* the fierce opposition we have long had to controlling and interventionist government policies that favor corporations and repressive and intrusive policies that inhibit or control people's use of the Internet helps assure the Internet's essential independence and freedom;
+ * the fierce opposition we have long had to controlling and interventionist government policies that favor corporations and repressive and intrusive policies that inhibit or control people's use of the Internet helps assure the Internet's essential independence and freedom;
 
  * and our politics give the progressive movement a critically important leadership position within the Internet.
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 To characterize and understand the dimensions of the problem, we need to understand the varying levels of engagement activists have with the Internet.
 
-* Most of us use it in our work. We rely on it to function and to do what we want it to and what it says it will do. This is a good thing; it's what the Internet's technology is for. We have integrated the Internet into our political work and, to some extent, we design our political work around the Internet's capabilities -- even unconsciously -- day after day.
+ * Most of us use it in our work. We rely on it to function and to do what we want it to and what it says it will do. This is a good thing; it's what the Internet's technology is for. We have integrated the Internet into our political work and, to some extent, we design our political work around the Internet's capabilities -- even unconsciously -- day after day.
 
 For us to be able to do this, we rely on a smaller number of us who administer these resources.
 
-* Service Administrators, or Chief technologists, actually install and maintain websites and email programs and their work is critical to the functioning of any organization on-line. Many larger organizations have one of at least one person with these skills on staff; those who can't afford such a professional full-time have access to one or more for hourly work.
+ * Service Administrators, or Chief technologists, actually install and maintain websites and email programs and their work is critical to the functioning of any organization on-line. Many larger organizations have one of at least one person with these skills on staff; those who can't afford such a professional full-time have access to one or more for hourly work.
 
-* Finally, there are system administrators. These are people who
+ * Finally, there are system administrators. These are people who
 
 * keep the servers and systems that run the web, email and other services functional;