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A thought network on maintenance, repair, care, and the mundane labor that keeps the world going. Tweets by Lauren Dapena Fraiz and Liliana Coelho
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Our intention for holding these sessions is to visibilize that maintenance, care, and repair TAKE TIME. Of course, this time may not work with your schedule so we invite you to dedicate some time, at some regularity, for maintenance.
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If you have said "no" to something today, we commend you!
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Always such a joy to find one of the @juliacastrov-designed Make Sure to Maintain Thyself cards @The_Maintainers put out. Modeled on a loyalty program, you get yourself a treat after saying no to ten things. You are being loyal to your own needs, and those of your loved ones.
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For those who like our Maintainers Movement Fellows of 2022 are interested in post-growth or degrowth studies, here is a summer school program!
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Summer school alert 📢🚨⚠️ Life after Growth - Can the commons guide us in making sense of work, technology, organisation – and life! – in a post-growth society? Join us in Greece 06 - 09 Sep 2023. cosmolocalism.eu/summer-school- #degrowth #postgrowth
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Join The Maintainers network and friends for a 3-Part Event Series highlighting different spheres of maintenance. Learn more & register today: buff.ly/3Lk2k3e Up first: Maintaining Self with Sarah, Ashley, and Rheanna on April 7th. Learn more about Rheanna's work here:
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Join The Maintainers network and friends for a 3-Part Event Series highlighting different spheres of maintenance. Learn more & register today: buff.ly/3Lk2k3e Up first: Maintaining Self with Sarah, Ashley, and Rheanna on April 7th. Learn more about Ashley's work here:
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Join The Maintainers network and friends for a 3-Part Event Series highlighting different spheres of maintenance. Learn more & register today: buff.ly/3Lk2k3e Up first: Maintaining Self with Sarah, Ashley, and Rheanna on April 7th. Learn more about Sarah’s work here:
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We're excited to announce our 2023 3-Part Event Series highlights three different spheres of maintenance, asking: “How do we maintain ourselves? Our communities? Our movements?”. Up first: Moving Toward Maintenance – Self Learn more & register here: buff.ly/3Lk2k3e
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The Open Source Collective is now hiring maintainers! If you have funds in your collective but haven't been able to work for it in a formal capacity we've got you ❤️ We are offering payroll for you to work on your project. Kudos & team for this!
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FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: Layers: how maintenance often expresses itself Interconnectedness: Decisions made in the past influence the true cost of maintenance today. Decisions made today will pass on this true cost to the next generation of caretakers.
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Welcome to ! "Let's get excited about maintenance!" (NYT, 2017) nytimes.com/2017/07/22/opi How tech culture valorizes making at the expense of care and maintenance: theatlantic.com/technology/arc
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One answer is that the only type of maintenance that’s even semi-prestigious in American society is software maintenance. That is, it's not prestigious to be plumber, mechanic, or electrician. You can make money, but it doesn't have cultural cachet. And so maintenance suffers.
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