FOSS and Crafts

Mar 03 2024 63 ep. 135

FOSS and Crafts Podcast artwork

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

Leisure Technology

Copy RSS

Subscribe on Podcast Addict

62: Blender

Blender, the absolute powerhouse of FOSS 3d (and increasingly 2d) graphics! We give an overview of the software's history, some personal history of our relationships to the software, what it can do, and where we're excited to see it go!Links:BlenderBlender historyGrease pencilSome historical Blender videos from the NeoGeo and Not a Number days: Did It, Done It, Not a Number commerc

61: A Textile Historian's Survival Guide

How do you survive in a world that is no longer optimized for making your own clothing when you suddenly find that modern conveniences no longer accommodate you? As a textile historian, Morgan has been ruminating for years about women’s contributions to the domestic economy, the massive time investment of producing clothing for a family, and the comparative properties of differen

60: Governance, part 2

Back again with governance... part two! (See also: part one!) Here we talk about some organizations and how they can be seen as "templates" for certain governance archetypes.Links:Cygnus, CygwinMastodonAndroidFree Software Foundation, GNUSoftware Freedom Conservancy, Outreachy, Conservancy's copyleft compliance projectsCommons ConservancyF-DroidOpen CollectiveLinux Founda

59: Governance, part 1

Governance of FOSS projects, a two parter, and this is part one! Here we talk about general considerations applicable to FOSS projects! (And heck, these apply to collaborative free culture projects too!)Links:Why We Need Code of Conducts, and Why They're Not Enough, by Aeva BlackBlender Cloud and the Blender Development Fund

58: WebAssembly

WebAssembly! You've probably heard lots about it, but what the heck is it? Is it just for C and Rust programs? Can you write it by hand? (Do you want to?) And wait, how is Spritely getting involved in WebAssembly efforts? Find out!Links:WebAssemblyHoot! (and Hoot announcement, Andy Wingo joining, Robin Templeton joining)Lisp Game Jam - "Wireworld" - Hoot's low level WASM

57: F-Droid (featuring Sylvia van Os & Hans-Christoph Steiner!)

F-Droid, a repository of free software for your Android devices! Christine interviews F-Droid developers Sylvia van Os and Hans-Christoph Steiner as well as F-Droid board member and chair... Morgan Lemmer-Webber!Links:F-DroidSylvia van OsHans-Christoph SteinerF-Droid board announcementGuardian ProjectGoogle Play bans Matrix/ElementCatimaYour app is not compliant with Google Play Po

56: Make your own dehydrated meals

In yet another deep dive into yet another weird hobby of Christine's, we talk about how to make your own dehydrated meals! Why the heck would you want to do this? Well, maybe you want more consistent or dietary needs friendly travel food! Maybe you want to go camping or hiking! Maybe you're sick of deciding what's for lunch and you just want to scoop a cup of meal out of a jar on y

55: Free Soft Wear

Morgan talks about "Free Soft Wear": textile processes under free culture licenses!Links:Morgan's talk about Free Soft Wear at the Creative Freedom SummitElena of Valhalla’s repository of CC BY-SA sewing patternsMorgan's blogFree Soft Wear indexDice bag and simple skirt tutorialsRSI Glove patternSimple sweaterLayered SkirtKat Walsh or @[email protected] Dog Electr

54: Oops!

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

53: Fediverse reflections while the bird burns

Twitter is burning, and people are flocking to the fediverse. Is the fediverse ready though? How did we get here? Where should we be going? Since Christine is co-author of ActivityPub, the primary protocol used by the fediverse, Morgan decides it's time to get Christine's thoughts recorded and out there... so we hop in the car as we talk all about it!Links:ActivityPub, the protocol