Notices by Morgan Lemmer-Webber (mlemweb@octodon.social)

@fossandcrafts

We also happened to discuss how both @brainwane and @cwebber had used their hobby skills to make fundraising materials for @conservancy . It just so happens that the Conservancy is once again in the middle of their annual fundraiser, so if you're in a position to do so, maybe consider contributing? https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/

This week on @fossandcrafts we talked with @brainwane about many things, including the need for representation of FOSS culture in visual and narrative arts!

Let's get crafting folks!

https://fossandcrafts.org/episodes/18-sumana-harihareswara.html

@fossandcrafts

1.) An unstructured virtual gathering where we just show up and chat while working on our own projects (closer to a stitch and bitch),

2.) A slightly more structured virtual gathering where we set a topic for the week and have a roundtable discussion about it while we all work on our own projects,

3.) A more structured format where members of the community can give presentations on cool things their working on followed by discussion (closer to a user group)

@cwebber

Dr. Meza Cano also submitted an additional version of this talk in Spanish as well!

https://conf.tube/videos/watch/e2923ad5-afc5-49e7-afa3-613eef44adb6

All of the pre-recorded talks for #apconf2020 are available now at: https://conf.tube/accounts/apconf/video-channels

If you're registered for the live portions of the conference next weekend (October 2-5) hopefully you'll have some time to check the videos out in advance! If you're attending the conference asynchronously feel free to watch the videos and leave questions in the video comments on on here using the #apconf2020 so we can incorporate them into the Q&A sessions!

This week we failed our tomato plants and they all died suddenly, leaving us with about 40 lbs of tomatoes, most of which were still green.

Yesterday was also @cwebber 's birthday, so I made a green tomato 'apple' pie. Despite my lack of pie-crust skills, it was a huge success!

I also figured, if I've got to cut slits in the top of a pie, might as well make them an ascii art space shooter ;)

Just reminder that the CFP for ActivityPubConf2020 is open through July 8 (one week from today).

Visit http://conf.activitypub.rocks/#cfp for more info or email us at activitypubconf@riseup.net if you have any questions.

The conference will take place online October 2nd - 5th 2020.

We've scheduled a planning meeting for ActivityPub Conference 2020 next Saturday (5/16/20) at noon EST . We’ll be connecting via mumble at: https://www.w3.org/wiki/SocialCG#Joining_the_meeting and on irc in #apconf on freenode

#activityPubConf

@fredmbarros

I think that the best way would be to incorporate discussions of free software as a social movement into papers/panels/meetups at DH conferences. But as a lowly grad student I'm not sure how much clout I've got to do so. I've also seen panelists ripped to shreds in the Q&A by senior scholars who think things like cc licenses are antithetical to academic research.

@fredmbarros

I think one of the main things that Digital Humanities can learn from Free Software is community collaboration.

@fredmbarros

I think the problem is that there isn't necessarily an infrastructure in place, you just need to reach out to people. You probably know the people you would like to contribute, it wouldn't hurt to test the waters, point them to the American Yawp as a successful example, & see if anyone would be willing to collaborate. This kind of project disrupts the status quo of academic publishing, and we're just indoctrinated with an 'it is what it is' viewpoint that we don't break it.

@fredmbarros

A lot of the digital humanities work that really engages with free software is done by librarians or IT people rather than the principal investigators.

I was on a panel at last year's Libre Planet on Free Software in Academia that you might find interesting: I led a panel at LP2018 you may be interested in: https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/free-software-in-academia/