FOSS and Crafts

Blender, the absolute powerhouse of FOSS 3d (and increasingly 2d) graphics!

Links:

• Blender

• Blender history

• Grease pencil

• Some historical Blender videos from the NeoGeo and Not a Number days: Did It, Done It, Not a Number commercial, Come and See

• Elephants Dream, aka Project Orange

• Big Buck Bunny

• Previous episodes on blender:

  • Blender for open movie productions and education
  • Sophie Jantak on pet portraits and Blender's Grease Pencil

• Blender Conference videos mentioned:

  • Inklines Across The Spiderverse
  • My Journey Across the Spider-Verse: from Hobbyist to Hollywood
  • Forensic Architecture - spatial analysis for human rights cases

• The MediaGoblin campaign video (well, the second one)

• 14th anniversary animation gift to Morgan

• In Unexpected Places

• Seams to Sewing Pattern (a Blender plugin for making clothes and stuffed animals!) (could we make Free Soft Wear patterns with it?)

• Wing It!

• Wing It! Production Logs and Blenderheads

• Episodes about lisp, because obviously Blender needs more lisp (who's going to do it):

  • What is Lisp?

  • Lisp but Beautiful, Lisp for Everyone

How do you survive in a world that is no longer optimized for making

Guest co-host Juliana Sims sits down with Morgan to talk about how,

Links and other notes:

• Morgan presented this as a (much shorter) talk at the Dress Conference 2023
• Slides from the presentation
• Morgan's Dissertation, which we also covered
• RSI Glove Pattern

The quote that Morgan somewhat misremembered about a woman preparing

"A thrifty countrywoman had a small croft, she and her sturdy spouse. He tilled his own land, whether the work called for the plough, or the curved sickle, or the hoe. She would now sweep the cottage, supported on props; now she would set the eggs to be hatched under the plumage of the brooding hen; or she gathered green mallows or white mushrooms, or warmed the low hearth with welcome fire. And yet she diligently employed her hands at the loom, and armed herself against the threats of winter." -- Ovid, Fasti 4.687-714

Back again with governance... part two!

Links:

• Cygnus, Cygwin
• Mastodon
• Android
• Free Software Foundation, GNU
• Software Freedom Conservancy, Outreachy, Conservancy's copyleft compliance projects
• Commons Conservancy
• F-Droid
• Open Collective
• Linux Foundation
• 501(c)(3) vs 501(c)(6)
• Stitchting
• Free as in Freedom
• LKML (the Linux Kernel Mailing List)
• Linus Doesn't Scale
• Spritely Networked Communities Institute
• Python and the Python Software Foundation, PyCon, the Python Package Index
• Python PEPs (Python Enhancement Proposals), XMPP XEPs, Fediverse FEPs, Rust RFCs
• Blender, Blender Foundation, Blender Institute, Blender Studio
• Blender's history
• Elephants Dream
• Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation
• Debian, Debian's organizational structure, and Debian's constitution
• EFF
• Oh yeah and I guess we should link the World History Association!

Governance of FOSS projects, a two parter, and this is part one!

Links:

• Why We Need Code of Conducts, and Why They're Not Enough, by Aeva Black
• Blender Cloud and the Blender Development Fund

WebAssembly! You've probably heard lots about it, but what the heck

Links:

• WebAssembly
• Hoot! (and Hoot announcement, Andy Wingo joining, Robin Templeton joining)
• Lisp Game Jam - "Wireworld" - Hoot's low level WASM tooling in action
• Directly compiling Scheme to WebAssembly: lambdas, recursion, iteration!
• Understanding the WebAssembly text format
• WebAssembly GC proposal
• Episode 49: Lisp but Beautiful; Lisp for Everyone
• WASI
• POSIX
• Episode 17: Gardening, from seedling to seasoned
• Conway's Game of Life
• WASM-4
• Episode 46: Mark S. Miller on Distributed Objects, Part 1
• Schism by Eric Holk

F-Droid, a repository of free software for your Android devices!

Links:

• F-Droid
• Sylvia van Os
• Hans-Christoph Steiner
• F-Droid board announcement
• Guardian Project
• Google Play bans Matrix/Element
• Catima
• Your app is not compliant with Google Play Policies: A story from hell

In yet another deep dive into yet another weird hobby of Christine's,

Links:

• Making dehydrated meals overview (Christine's Kitchen 0):

Morgan talks about "Free Soft Wear": textile processes under free culture licenses!

Links:

• Morgan's talk about Free Soft Wear at the Creative Freedom Summit

• Elena of Valhalla’s repository of CC BY-SA sewing patterns

• Morgan's blog

  • Free Soft Wear index

  • Dice bag and simple skirt tutorials

  • RSI Glove pattern

  • Simple sweater

  • Layered Skirt

• Kat Walsh or @[email protected]

• Tall Dog Electronics face mask (You may recognize Dan and Tall Dog Electronics of TinyNES fame)

• Wikimedia Commons

• Project Gutenberg

• Learning the sewing machine

• RSI episode

• FreeSewing (an open source software project that creates made-to-measure creative commons licensed sewing patterns)

Everyone goofs sometimes. Today we talk accidents... some happy, some not!

Links:

• Decaf coffee and history of penicillin, your pop-sci "accidents of history" stories of the day. Look, this is admittedly kind of a fluff episode.
• Have we linked to Worse is Better before? We did? In the lisp episode?
• And here's the Terminal Phase episode

Twitter is burning, and people are flocking to the fediverse. Is the

Links:

• ActivityPub, the protocol