FOSS and Crafts

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July 20, 202132: Happy FOSS & Crafts anniversary!
Chris and Morgan reflect on one year of FOSS & Crafts, as well as
announcing... FOSS & Crafts Studios!
Links:
FOSS & Crafts Studios on Patreon
(still also the right place to support Chris Lemmer-Webber's FOSS work)
Thank you to our guests: Nick and LP, Zack, Kate and Frankie, Sebastian, Bassam, Tristan, Sumana, Mallory, Vicky, Steve, Elana and Katie, and Steel.
3: Textile production and a nostalgic past
28: FOSS Stitch w/ Elana Hashman and Katie McLaughlin
5: Milkytracker, chiptunes, and that intro music
22: Crafting the past… or trying to
9: What is Spritely?
11: An Ethics of Agency
20: Hygiene for a computing pandemic
26: Dr. Morgan Lemmer-Webber, an academic journey
1: Collaborative Storytelling with Dice
6: What Escaped from the Demonic Z.O.O.O.O. (part 1) and (part 2)
10: The What Goblins Saga, Chapter 1: What Are Goblins? and Chapter 2: Trees, Friends, and Static
25: Governance, Leadership, and Founder's Syndrome
30: Gender and Sexuality, A Personal Perspective
23: Nerdout! Fuzzy and crisp systems and 27: Nerdout! Game Design and Social Systems
Shrini's toots about the Hack and Craft:Post1 Post 2 *We did extrapolate a lot more than the posts say ;)
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July 11, 202131: Talking Pressbooks and OER with Steel Wagstaff
Steel Wagstaff joins us to talk about
their work at Pressbooks, a FOSS based book
publishing suite particularly focused on
Open Educational Resources
(OER), as well as talking about OER generally, open access, and
education as a fundamental human right!
Pressbooks (git repos)
Pressbooks Directory
Steel Wagstaff's website, Twitter account
5Rs of open content
UN Sustainable development goals
[Cape Town Declaration (September 2007)](https://www.capetowndeclaration.org/read-the-declaration + https://www.capetowndeclaration.org/cpt10/)
Charles Reznikoff, First There is the Need (Santa Barbara, California: Black Sparrow Press, 1977)
Achieving the Dream's Art History I, by Associate Professor Emeritus Bruce Schwabach of Herkimer Community College. (CC BY!)
Open Music Theory (which was also mentioned in Episode 5: Milkytracker, chiptunes, and that intro music) (CC BY-SA!)
Fundamentals, Function, and Form
SMuFL: Standard Music Font Layout
Inclusive Spectrums ("This exhibition presents the preliminary major research project ideas of OCAD University’s Inclusive Design 2019/2021 cohort.") (CC BY!)
White Jaw by Laurel Bastian
Rebus Foundation
ScholarLed
Radical Open Access
Manifeold (GPLv3!)
editoria
Knowledge Futures Group
PubPub
Scalar
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June 28, 202130: Gender and Sexuality, A Personal Perspective
On this episode, Chris talks about being nonbinary trans-femme and
Morgan talks about being demisexual (and briefly about both being
pansexual) and how they have both navigated these experiences in their
lives and relationship.
Links:
There are a lot of resources on the internet about being
transgender and nonbinary, and opinions about most of them tend to
run strong. That said,
Transgender Map has good
resources explaining many concerns for those who are transgender
or nonbinary, are trying to figure out if they are transgender or
nonbinary, and support materials for family and friends.
demisexuality.org
WebMD article on demisexuality.
Note that despite what Chris says on the episode, the page itself
does not mention narrative components of demisexual attraction, but
rather emotional ones. The extrapolation of application to narrative
aspects came more from Morgan and Chris talking through Morgan's
manifestation of those aspects.
Chris's "Alpha Release" post about being nonbinary trans-femme with
pictures,
on the fediverse
and
on Twitter
(and later
update).
(These were the first pictures Chris took in a more directly "femme"
gender expression and do not reflect the current state of the
development branch.)
Morgan's coming out thread about being demisexual,
on the fediverse
and
on Twitter.
That sketchover self-portrait
that Chris mentioned (overlaid over photo)
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June 12, 202129: Building Blocks for User Freedom
Any skillset has basic foundational elements or building blocks. In
this recording of Chris and Morgan's
talk at ÖzgürKon,
we discuss the way that access to those basic elements is limited in
modern society.
This can be seen in any number of fields from actual building blocks
increasingly being sold in sets to make specific toys as opposed to
generic buckets of blocks that allow kids to develop their creativity
to the way that access to the source code and hardware in our
technology is increasingly restricted.
Also! In this episode we announce
Hack and Craft,
a new companion "stitch and bitch" style usergroup to FOSS & Crafts.
(Any crafting is welcome... including computer programming, as long
as it's a fun project!)
Feel free to bring your own project and hang out at inagural meeting
on June 19th!
Links:
ÖzgürKon 2021
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May 23, 202128: FOSS Stitch w/ Elana Hashman and Katie McLaughlin
Elana Hashman (Python Software Foundation
Fellow and open source hacker) and Katie McLaughlin
(Python Software Foundation Fellow and crafter) join us to talk about
F(L)OSS meets embroidery and cross stitching (FOSS stitching?)
including a significant conversation about FLOSS vs embroidery
floss.
Much is also conversed about ih, a
project started by Katie with contributions from Elana, a python
project which helps generate embroidery patterns from images.
Links:
ih!
ih presented at PyCon 2019: Katie McLaughlin - A Right Stitch-up: Creating embroidery patterns with Pillow
ih, as a service
DMC (Dollfus-Mieg et Compagnie),
the textile company mentioned several times
Python Pillow (continuation of PIL,
the Python Imaging Library)
Linux Conf AU, which has had a lot of
"stitch and bitch" type events: 2018 art & tech miniconf,
2019 knit, crochet, sew BoF,
2020 creative arts miniconf
Cross Stitch Carpentry
ginger coons' open color standard work
freieFarbe Open Color initiative, appears to be CC BY 4.0
Stitching patterns really are a kind of domain specific visual programming language (see the response, "What is this, assembler?")
Core rope memory was usually hand-woven by women in early computing days (more)
Still here? How about some extra images?
Morgan's needlework of an alpaca, made with alpaca fiber:
Kirby quilt that Morgan did for a babby:
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May 06, 202127: Nerdout! Game Design and Social Systems
Steve is back, talking with Chris about viewing social systems through
the lens of game design.
How do game mechanics, uncertainty, and narrative map onto governance,
society, and citizen participation?
Thanks to Kate and Ricky for participating in a pre-show discussion
which generated many of the ideas explored in this episode.
Links:
The first F&C Nerdout episode on "Fuzzy and crisp systems",
in case you wanted to hear more of the Chris & Steve conversation dynamic
F&C Episode 4: The Eight Kinds of Fun, and the paper it was inspired from, MDA: A Formal Approach to Game Design and Game Research
Veil of Ignorance
thought experiment by philosopher John Rawls
Comeback Mechanic
Power Grid
The Ludology podcast... if you like
this episode, you'll probably like Ludology.
Ludology does a "Biography of a Board Game" on Candyland
Ludology Episode 3 - Catch the Leader which includes the first critique of Power Grid
Ludology Episode 3A - The Defense of Power Grid
Conway's Game of Life
Emergence (the broad
umbrella which includes "emergent behavior")
How cats get drunk in Dwarf Fortress, and why its creators haven't figured out time travel (yet) (Note that we cut off the story before it got sad in the episode... the following link tells the full story, including the sad end to this particular form of emergent behavior)
Game Analysis: Love Letter
Apparently the game about the soldiers gaining PTSD and getting drunk was called "Clockwork Empires" (note, another proprietary game and we haven't played it; it's an empire-colonialist-expansion game, but maybe a bit more consciously so... we don't know really though). This is the closest article we could find about the behavior but it doesn't seem to be the full interview Steve remembered. Note that Steve had a followup email saying: "Also, a detail I apparently forgot is that the alcohol helped them forget (temporarily?) their lost friends, which feels important..."
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April 23, 2021 26: Dr. Morgan Lemmer-Webber, an academic journey
Remember how we've been saying the entire run of this show "Morgan's
hard at work at finishing her PhD dissertation?"
Well guess what!
She finally got it handed in and defended it...
Morgan is now officially Dr. Morgan Lemmer-Webber!
(She still has to wrap up a few edits but hey it's official now!)
Morgan walks us through her experiences of the graduate school
process, from applying (and re-applying) to schools, to a masters
program, to a PhD program, and the many fun steps, bumps, and
adventures in-between.
Not much in terms of show notes this episode, but here are some
pictures!
Congratulations again, Morgan!
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March 28, 202125: Governance, Leadership, and Founder's Syndrome
What story does an institution tell about itself?
To whom does a governance structure and its leadership serve?
To what degree are leaders within a governing institution subject
or exempt to the rules of the governed?
We use this framework to discuss the unexpected announcement of Richard
Stallman's re-appointment to the FSF board, by the FSF board.
Content warning: depression and sexual harassment are both mentioned
in this episode.
Links:
Founder's Syndrome
(Wikipedia article)
Statement on the Re-election of Richard Stallman to the FSF Board by the EFF
An open letter to remove Richard M. Stallman from all leadership positions
Microblog post expressing lack of foreknowledge of announcement by FSF staff and Libreplanet volunteers
Not The First Time We Tried (FSF, GNU, RMS, etc.) by Sumana Harihareswara
Kat Walsh's statement of making arguments in opposition to RMS's reinstatement to the board (Twitter version) and announcement of resignation (Twitter version)
The Free Software Foundation and Richard Stallman by Benjamin Mako Hill, longtime FOSS advocate, former member of FSF board
Programming is Forgetting: Toward a New Hacker Ethic
Documentation of accusations of women being harassed by RMS
Political cartoon between RMS and Chris from when Chris was in college
Re: Bug in emacs tetris
GNU Emacs and XEmacs
2018 Letter to the board in response to RMS's behavior and the board's lack of response
Marianne Corvellec’s Libre Planet 2017 talk “The GNU Philosophy: Ethics beyond ethics” where RMS says "I'm the president of the Free Software Foundation... so I don’t have to follow the rules"
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March 12, 202124: Get Organized!
Morgan returns from handing in her dissertation! Very topically,
Morgan and Chris talk about organizational systems which can help you
stay on track... even when you're working from home or trying to
finish your PhD during a global pandemic.
Links:
The Hipster PDA,
including the original
semi-satirical announcement post.
Org Mode, the world's greatest
organizational and outliner system (or so claims Chris), if you're
an Emacs user anyway
(honestly, Org Mode is a great reason to pick up Emacs)
Locating purveyors of excessively priced office supplies left as
an exercise for only a very particular kind of reader.
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February 13, 202123: Nerdout! Fuzzy and crisp systems
Morgan is in the final crunch of finishing her dissertation draft, so
Chris's brother Steve Webber joins us for a special "nerdout":
analyzing the dual nature of fuzzy vs crisp systems! From physics to
biology, from programming languages to human languages, the duality of
fuzzy and crisp is everpresent.
Yes, this really is what Chris and Steve sound like whenever they get
together...
Links:
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
(but this version looks better on the web)
and the 1980s lectures
(also on Internet Archive
but the YouTube uploads are more recent and higher quality)
Lisp and Scheme
Lambda Calculus
The Little Schemer
The Most Beautiful Program Ever Written by William Byrd
Lisp 1.5 programmer's manual, which also now has a lovely reprint for sale (see Appendix B for Lisp in Lisp, albeit in m-expression rather than s-expression format... m-expressions never took on)
Javascript: The Good Parts
The narcissism of small differences
To Mock a Mockingbird
by Raymond Smullyan. Also, presumably not the link Steve had shared with Chris
back in the day (but maybe it was?) but here's a more math'y breakdown of
some of the ideas, To Dissect a Mockingbird: A Graphical Notation for the Lambda Calculus with Animated Reduction
Duality (mathematics)
Fuzzy and crisp sets
Neats and scruffies
(see also our previous episode about machine learning)
Alan Watts' lecture on "prickles and goo"
Carcinisation
(convergent evolution on "crabs")
Lisp vs APL: "Mud and Diamonds"
Guix
Jonathan Rees's website
Lojban,
and here's a pretty good Lojban intro
The infamous Lojban "bear goo"
debate
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