Changes between Version 24 and Version 25 of techies_of_color

Timestamp:

Aug 27, 2010, 7:09:39 PM (14 years ago)

Author:

alfredo

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techies_of_color

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 The United States Social Forum movement, for example, would simply not be the same (as large, diverse or successful) if it weren't for the Internet on which it heavily relies. Everything at the USSF from registration to outreach to organization of transportation, housing and, of course, the over one thousand events that took place in Detroit was organized over the Internet.
 
-As chief technologists for the USSF, we adminstered the servers that hosted its websites and email lists and, in consultation with the other USSF leaders, we made many political decisions that affected server operations.
+As chief technologists for the USSF, we administered the servers that hosted its websites and email lists and, in consultation with the other USSF leaders, we made many political decisions that affected server operations.
 
 Server Administration is very political and the composition of the people who make those political decisions is a critical issue.
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 2 -- Software development is never geared to people of color. Since techies do the software development, that software frequently falls short of incorporating the true needs, culture, generalized perceptions and stages of development that exist within communities of color. This is true at the planning stages up to the testing stages in which people of color are seldom involved.
 
-The amount of money, time and energy wasted or misdirected by this situation is inestimable. It's impossible to estimate the unimagineable investment made by organizations of color into proprietary software running servers, into the wide array of Windows software (which costs money and is not as effective as many Open Sources solutions), and the dependence on proprietary software like Google's array of aps and social networking software like Facebook.
+The amount of money, time and energy wasted or misdirected by this situation is inestimable. It's impossible to estimate the investment made by organizations of color into proprietary software running servers, the money poured into the wide array of Windows software, and the dependence on proprietary software like Google's array of aps and social networking software like Facebook.
 
 We have recently seen Google's strategic orientation in the deal it is attempting to make with Verizon to develop "access tiers" on the Internet which would virtually destroy the Internet as originally conceived. And the social networking tools, which stress one to one communication comprised of a few words, are actually contradictory with real organizing and movement building.