FOSS and Crafts

About FOSS and Crafts

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

Publisher

FOSS and Crafts

Category

leisure · technology

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

15 Jul 2020

Latest episode

3 Mar 2024

Latest episodes

63 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   3 Mar 2024

   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: Blender (https://blender.org/) Blender history (https://www.blender.org/about/history/) Grease pencil (https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/grease_pencil/index.html) Some historical Blender videos from the NeoGeo and Not a Number days: Did It, Done It (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKAQNBaZ_I8), Not a Number commercial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AMubc7C1vw), Come and See (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qyVRFI0B6g) Elephants Dream (https://orange.blender.org/), aka Project Orange Big Buck Bunny (https://peach.blender.org/) Previous episodes on blender: Blender for open movie productions and education (https://fossandcrafts.org/episodes/16-bassam-kurdali-blender-open-movies-education.html) Sophie Jantak on pet portraits and Blender's Grease Pencil (https://fossandcrafts.org/episodes/48-sophie-jantak-pet-portraits-grease-pencil.html) Blender Conference videos mentioned: Inklines Across The Spiderverse (https://conference.blender.org/2023/presentations/1928/) My Journey Across the Spider-Verse: from Hobbyist to Hollywood (https://conference.blender.org/2023/presentations/1823/) Forensic Architecture - spatial analysis for human rights cases (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWPdSJ1-Dvs) The MediaGoblin campaign video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsi_VyzbDrE) (well, the second one) 14th anniversary animation gift to Morgan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUIMYnSbfPQ) In Unexpected Places (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88JUfWLJJ5g) Seams to Sewing Pattern (http://thomaskole.nl/s2s/) (a Blender plugin for making clothes and stuffed animals!) (could we make Free Soft Wear (https://fossandcrafts.org/episodes/055-free-soft-wear.html) patterns with it?) Wing It! (https://studio.blender.org/films/wing-it/) Wing It! Production Logs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6ESaby2KDA&list=PLav47HAVZMjkgw-ueySUvvq1aynJ4s7ry) and Blenderheads (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc5XEcHGIHU&list=PLa1F2ddGya_8I8QCMCKlQUOQpgOga2nZ-) Episodes about lisp, because obviously Blender needs more lisp (who's going to do it): What is Lisp? (https://fossandcrafts.org/episodes/47-what-is-lisp.html) Lisp but Beautiful, Lisp for Everyone (https://fossandcrafts.org/episodes/49-lisp-but-beautiful-lisp-for-everyone.html)

2. 

   10 Dec 2023

   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 different textile fibers. These research interests were informed by a lifetime of sewing and other fiber crafts. None of this experience, however, properly prepared her to face the reality of needing to rely on her own hands to provide large portions of her own wardrobe. Guest co-host Juliana Sims sits down with Morgan to talk about how, in the wake of a recently developed allergy to synthetic fabrics, she now finds herself putting that knowledge of historical textile production to use to produce clothing that she can wear. Links and other notes: Morgan presented this as a (much shorter) talk at the Dress Conference 2023 (https://dressconference.org/) Slides from the presentation (/static/images/blog/a-textile-historians-guide-to-making-clothing.pdf) Morgan's Dissertation (https://mlemmer.org/dissertation/), which we also (https://fossandcrafts.org/episodes/34-women-and-wool-working-part1.html) covered (https://fossandcrafts.org/episodes/35-women-and-wool-working-part2.html) RSI Glove Pattern (https://mlemmer.org/blog/RSIgloves/) The quote that Morgan somewhat misremembered about a woman preparing wool before the winter: "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

3. 

   1 Oct 2023

   60: Governance, part 2

   Back again with governance... part two! (See also: part one (https://fossandcrafts.org/episodes/059-governance-part1.html)!) Here we talk about some organizations and how they can be seen as "templates" for certain governance archetypes. Links: Cygnus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygnus_Solutions), Cygwin (https://www.cygwin.com/) Mastodon (https://joinmastodon.org/) Android (https://www.android.com/) Free Software Foundation (https://www.fsf.org/), GNU (https://www.gnu.org/) Software Freedom Conservancy (https://sfconservancy.org/), Outreachy (https://www.outreachy.org/), Conservancy's copyleft compliance projects (https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/) Commons Conservancy (https://commonsconservancy.org/) F-Droid (https://f-droid.org/) Open Collective (https://opencollective.com/) Linux Foundation (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/) 501(c)(3) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501(c)(3)_organization) vs 501(c)(6) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501(c)_organization#501.28c.29.286.29) Stitchting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stichting) Free as in Freedom (http://faif.us) LKML (https://lkml.org/) (the Linux Kernel Mailing List) Linus Doesn't Scale (https://web.archive.org/web/20020214033203/http://www.kerneltrap.com/article.php?sid=513) Spritely Networked Communities Institute (https://spritely.institute) Python (https://www.python.org/) and the Python Software Foundation (https://www.python.org/psf-landing/), PyCon (https://us.pycon.org/), the Python Package Index (https://pypi.org/) Python PEPs (Python Enhancement Proposals) (https://peps.python.org/pep-0000/), XMPP XEPs (https://xmpp.org/extensions/), Fediverse FEPs (https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep), Rust RFCs (https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs) Blender (https://www.blender.org/), Blender Foundation (https://www.blender.org/about/foundation/), Blender Institute (https://www.blender.org/about/institute/), Blender Studio (https://studio.blender.org/welcome/) Blender's history (https://www.blender.org/about/history/) Elephants Dream (https://orange.blender.org/) Mozilla Foundation (https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/) and Mozilla Corporation (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/moco/) Debian (https://www.debian.org/), Debian's organizational structure (https://www.debian.org/intro/organization), and Debian's constitution (https://www.debian.org/devel/constitution) EFF (https://www.eff.org/) Oh yeah and I guess we should link the World History Association (https://www.thewha.org/)!

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

6 ratings