FOSS and Crafts

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

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
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
Slides from the presentation
Morgan's Dissertation, which we also covered
RSI Glove Pattern
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

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, 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!
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 Black
Blender Cloud and the Blender Development Fund

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:
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