080: Crafting A Community with Kris Howard




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Summary: <p> </p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Episode Sponsored By:</strong> <img class="alignnone wp-image-1357 aligncenter" src="http://www.greaterthancode.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Oreilly-1024x223.png" alt="" width="372" height="81"></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Support for the Greater Than Code podcast comes from O’Reilly Fluent and Velocity conferences, coming to San Jose, California, June 11-14. Join us for more insights, experts, and peers than ever before. You’ll get hands-on training to help you improve performance, resilience, and user experience. Register with code GTC20 to save up to $519 on your pass. Learn more at</span><a href="http://oreilly.com/bettertogether"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> oreilly.com/bettertogether</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <hr> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Panelists: </b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/jessitron"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jessica Kerr</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="https://twitter.com/johnksawers"><span style="font-weight: 400;">John K. Sawers</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Guest Starring:</b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kris Howard: </span><a href="https://twitter.com/web_goddess"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@web_goddess</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="https://twitter.com/yow_conf"><span style="font-weight: 400;">YOW! Conference</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Join Our Slack Channel!<br> </b><b style="font-size: 1.8rem;">Support us via </b><a style="background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 1.8rem;" href="https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode"><b>Patreon</b></a><b style="font-size: 1.8rem;">!</b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Show Notes:</b></p> <p><b>02:05</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Knitting and Computing</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEn4Izv0DW8"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Software Art Thou: Knit One, Compute One with Kris Howard</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.ravelry.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ravelry</span></a></p> <p><b>06:17 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– The Knitting Community Vs The Software Community</span></p> <p><b>09:38 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Moderation and Clear Communication of Expectations</span></p> <p><b>12:50 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Welcoming New People</span></p> <p><b>14:45 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Muscle Memory and Workflow; Teaching Others</span></p> <p><b>19:09 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Information Exchange and Spreading Knowledge</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://github.com/fiddlerpianist/knitml"><span style="font-weight: 400;">knitml</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://freesewing.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">freesewing.org</span></a></p> <p><b>25:16 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– User Focus Vs Creator Focus</span></p> <p><b>27:07 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Kris’ Superpower: Being a Social Extrovert</span></p> <p><b>35:39 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Hard Work Vs Reframing</span></p> <p><b>40:51 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Gender Differences in “Crafting”</span></p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Read a comment this morning stating that Maker culture is 80% male and had to laugh</p> </blockquote>