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FOSS and Crafts

A podcast about free software, free culture, and making things together.

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22: Crafting the past... or trying to

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2021/01/29

There's all sorts of reasons to pursue historical crafting techniques: for the experience of recreating them or learning new techniques, for education, or for entertainment and immersion. Morgan and Chris explore these paths under the terms "experiential historical crafts", "experimental archaeology", and "historical reenactment". What is important, useful, and fun about each of these? What pitfalls might we want to avoid? What can be gained by what we might find, how

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21: Vicky Steeves on Reproducibility, Open Research,...

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2021/01/18

We're joined by Vicky Steeves, a hyper-talented librarian specializing in data management, open and reproducible research, and the overlap between FOSS, free culture, and library sciences! We dive into all of that... plus a bit of crafting... and even... what's this? A discussion of what the FOSS world can learn from the world of game modding (and vice versa)!Links:ISAGE (Investigating & Archiving the Scholarly Git Experience) and, to be a bit meta, ISAGE's own data as open and reproducible

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20: Hygiene for a computing pandemic

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2021/01/03

Chris and Morgan, driving in the Covid-19 pandemic, reflect on lessons of hygiene and a separation of concerns from the past (seen through the retroactively surprising struggle for handwashing acceptance) while analyzing how to bring safety to today's computing security pandemic via object capability discipline.As said in the episode, there's a lot of research and evidence for the object capability security approach! Please do scour the links below (with significant commentary attached).Links:Ignaz

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19: Mallory Knodel on bits and bytes and human rights

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2020/12/17

With computing technology becoming integrated with every aspect of our lives, many issues are simultaneously human rights issues and technical issues. Thus, how are organizations concerned with human rights and social justice engaging with technological authorship and policy-making? Mallory Knodel, presently Chief Technology Officer for the Center for Democracy and Technology, explains her work as a Public Interest Technologist. Mallory is also heavily engaged in a wide number of

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18: Sumana Harihareswara on sketching, standup, and...

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2020/12/06

We're joined by Sumana Harihareswara, a FOSS advocate yes, but also a person of so many other talents! We talk about sketching, standup comedy, and maintainership for the long life of free software projects. (Did you know you can hire Sumana to help on your FOSS project maintainership btw? Sumana runs Changeset Consulting!) We also talk about representation in the FOSS community within the arts (especially narrative arts), and about learning new skills within "no big deal"

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17: Gardening, from seedling to seasoned

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2020/11/28

We're joined by our friend Tristan to talk about gardening experiences, from newbies (us) to the wise (Tristan and others who are not us). We (Morgan and Chris) have just started seriously gardening this year, and have learned a lot about what works and what doesn't. And it turns out that people who have been doing it for years (such as Tristan) still have a lot of successes but also a lot of failures. But those can be fun too!Links:Stocking Up (book on preserving)No dig sheet mulching

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16: Bassam Kurdali on using Blender for open movie...

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2020/11/12

Bassam Kurdali (Fediverse, Twitter) talks about using Blender (a free and open source software suite for making 3d artwork) for open movie projects such as Elephants Dream (the world's first open movie project, which Bassam directed!) and Wires for Empathy, as well as use in teaching it to college students studying animation.Links:BlenderUrchin studiosChicken Chair (we need a better link for this... check back later!)Elephants DreamWires for Empathy (aka "Tube")OpenToonzBoats

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15: Scribble and the Open Document Format

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2020/11/06

Morgan and Chris talk about the Scribble document authoring format, with Morgan talking about authoring her dissertation in it and Chris talking about writing an OpenDocument Format (sometimes shortened to "ODF" or "ODT") exporter. (That code is now a merge request which will hopefully become part of Scribble itself!)Links:The Digital Humanities Workshops episode... this is kind of a continuation of those topics.Racket and ScribbleRacket 7.4 release notes, where Morgan is

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14: Digital Humanities Workshops

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2020/10/31

Morgan and Chris discuss the Digital Humanities workshops they ran introducing non-programmers to Racket and Scribble.Links:The flier (post-LibrePlanet 2018 edition)Course materialBuilding a Snowman with RacketHow to Use Scribble to Write your Academic Papers: A Reference Tutorial

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13: ActivityPub Conference 2020 with Sebastian Lasse

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2020/10/15

This week we are joined by Sebastian Lasse, author of the Redaktor ActivityPub powered CMS, and co-host of both ActivityPub Conference 2020 and ActivityPub Conference 2019 along with Morgan. Lots of retrospective, especially on the difference between APConf as an online conference in 2020 vs an in person conference in 2019.Links:ActivityPub Conference 2020ActivityPub Conference videosThe Running a FOSS virtual conference meta-talk/panelActivityPubFOSShost"Some singing"RedaktorThe Hackathon

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12: [Theatre] The What Goblins Saga, Chapter 2:...

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2020/10/08

On this episode of FOSS and Crafts Theatre, we continue the What Goblins Saga. The What Goblins saga continues as the characters continue to learn about themselves and their ever-changing environment. If you haven't listened to Chapter 1, maybe stop reading now to avoid spoilers from that episode!Having discovered that they are are sapient beings emergent from a networked video game, and having accidentally stumbled into administrative powers, the What Goblins discover the consequences of using

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11: An Ethics of Agency

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2020/10/01

Chris and Morgan discuss an ethical framework Chris has been workshopping for the last few years, "An Ethics of Agency", with the foundation of maximizing agency "for you, for me, for everyone" and minimizing subjection. CW: Note that Chris talks about an incident involving them experiencing suicidal depression at one point.Links:Other philosophical systems mentioned:UtilitarianismKantianismEthics of CarePeter Singer's book Animal Liberation, and the argument for Equal

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10: [Theatre] The What Goblins Saga, Chapter 1: What...

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2020/09/24

On this episode of FOSS and Crafts Theatre, we begin exploring "The What Goblins Saga". While the claim of "our goblins are different" is hardly new, these goblins seem to stand apart more than most... even their fellow goblins seem to think so. What is the nature of goblins, and what about The What Goblins in particular? Through little planning or foresight, our motley crew is about to find more answers than they expected... which only opens up more questions, of

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9: What is Spritely?

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2020/09/10

What is this Spritely project that's taken up most of Chris's time for the last several years? Something about advancing distributed/decentralized social networks, but what does that mean? Chris and Morgan talk about it while they drive to the bank!Links:SpritelySpritely Goblins (repo), the distributed programming language environmentThe distributed storage demos: Magenc, Crystal, and Golem. Currently being explored as the Datashards project.Where's the website? Not up at the time of episode

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8: Stefano Zacchiroli on preserving source code at...

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2020/09/03

We are extremely excited to have on our first FOSS & Crafts guest: Stefano Zacchiroli! (Also known on some corners of the FOSS world as just "zack".) Stefano has a long history of FOSS advocacy, most famously for his role in Debian where he served three well-regarded terms as Debian Project Leader. These days zack works on Software Heritage, an archival institution for software source code. We talk about how Software Heritage plays a role in common with other GLAM institutions (which

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7: [Theatre] What Escaped from the Demonic Z.O.O.O.O....

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2020/08/27

Leaving off from part 1, the office demons of Styx, Hexia, and Gummy Bear (or is it Gerumphy or perhaps Gzeumphi Behr?) track down and confront the mysterious lampmorel creature directly. What dangers await them? And just what secrets are the corporate overlords of Demonstrative Industries and Plentimint Industries both keeping (perhaps even from each other)? Find out in this thrilling conclusion!

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6: [Theatre] What Escaped from the Demonic Z.O.O.O.O....

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2020/08/20

On the first ever episode of FOSS and Crafts Theatre (a new subshow of FOSS and Crafts), Chris and Morgan are joined by veteran role playing game players Nick and LP to bring everyone a story of three demonic employees of the international conglomerate, Demonstrative Industries. Something has escaped from the Demonic Z.O.O.O.O. to the human realm, and its up to our demon heroes to clean up the mess before anyone finds out. Can they succeed in their mission and keep their corporate overlords pleased

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5: Milkytracker, chiptunes, and that intro music

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2020/08/13

Chris's journey of making the intro music is used as a backdrop to explore how to make music in Milkytracker, a FOSS program for making tracker music, as well as to explore a bit of sound theory, what chiptunes and tracker music are, and even a bit of exploring what it's like to learn something new even when you aren't necessarily very good yet.Links:Milkytrackersfxrdrpetter's sound theory and synthesis pagemusagi and the musagi tutorialThe Impulse ProjectThe Commodore 64 computer and its famous SID

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4: The Eight Kinds of Fun

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2020/08/06

Morgan and Chris look at the domains of FOSS and crafts from the lens of the Eight Kinds of Fun, traditionally used to analyze game design. What kinds of ways do different people enjoy participating in creative activities? How can examining those help us understand how to grow our communities to accomodate different participants with different styles of interests?Links:MDA: A Formal Approach to Game Design and Game ResearchAn article about the Eight Kinds of Fun, oriented at RPG GMsLudology episode

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3: Textile production and a nostalgic past

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2020/07/30

These days textile production is mostly automated aside from some niche markets and craft production. Craft production of textiles today taps into a vision of a nostalgic past, often evoking memories of a time the audience member wasn't there for. It turns out this potent imagery has been used not just for inspiring hobbyist crafters everywhere to pull out the drop spindle and knitting needles, but also by political participants going back all the way to (at least) Ancient Rome to try to steer a

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