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- <h1>Dusty Cloud Brainstorms: Don't mind the mess</h1>
- <p>
- My name is Christine Lemmer-Webber.
- Welcome to my humble home.
- I'm not very good at hospitality, but help yourself to whatever's
- in the pantry.
- Would you like a cup of
- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeybush">honeybush tea</a>?
- There was some green tea in there too but I don't know
- where I put it.
- </p>
- <p>
- A lot of my work is funded by generous donors these days.
- If you find my work interesting, maybe join the
- FOSS & Crafts Studios
- <a href="https://www.patreon.com/fossandcrafts">Patreon</a> thing
- (which covers my work under its umbrella...
- or you could also donate to my <a href="https://liberapay.com/cwebber">Liberapay</a>,
- if you prefer).
- Your support is appreciated!
- </p>
- <p>
- Additionally, I co-host (with my spouse Morgan!) a podcast about
- user freedom and crafting called
- <a href="https://fossandcrafts.org/">FOSS and Crafts</a>, if you are
- into that kind of thing.
- </p>
- <p>
- I keep a <a href="/blog/">blog</a> (well kind of), and much more
- frequently I <a href="https://octodon.social/@cwebber">microblog</a>
- (on the <a href="https://twitter.com/dustyweb">birdsite</a> too,
- if you must).
- Occasionally I also do some artwork.
- I am most happy in life when I am being creative.
- </p>
- <p>
- Aside from writing, I do a fair amount of coding, even outside of
- work.
- I like Lisps a lot, especially
- <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/">Guile</a> and
- <a href="https://racket-lang.org/">Racket</a>.
- I've done a lot of Python, but less so lately.
- I am an avid supporter of both
- <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">Free Software</a>
- and <a href="http://freedomdefined.org/Definition">Free Culture</a>;
- most of the work I do involves user freedom in some way,
- particularly in conjunction with network freedom issues.
- </p>
- <p>
- I guess if you're here you might be interested in knowing a bit
- about me. I'm a native of
- <a href="http://www.ci.mil.wi.us/">Milwaukee</a> but these days I
- reside in Easthampton, MA (a lovely little town).
- I am co-editor of the <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/">ActivityPub</a>
- federated social networking standard, and I co-founded
- <a href="http://mediagoblin.org/">GNU MediaGoblin</a>.
- Previously I worked as as a software engineer at
- <a href="http://creativecommons.org">Creative Commons</a>. I used
- to do a bunch of other things, but I have decided having a long
- list on the front page of my site was rather silly. I am married
- to Morgan Lemmer-Webber, who has been the most wonderful and
- loving partner I could ever imagine. I still don't know how she
- manages to put up with me.
- </p>
- <p>
- I used to go by "Christopher Allan Webber"
- but I found appending part of my spouse's name resulted in less
- naming conflicts, which were common even in FOSS.
- Then later, I went by "Christopher Lemmer Webber".
- However, since coming out as
- <a href="https://fossandcrafts.org/episodes/30-gender-sexuality-personal-perspective.html">trans-femme nonbinary</a>
- I go by "Christine Lemmer-Webber" now.
- If you are wondering about temporary lexical variables (pronouns)
- in the English language, please use feminine or nonbinary pronouns.
- Thanks!
- </p>
- <p>
- Socially, I'm a bit odd. I don't like large parties or loud
- organizations of people I don't know. I do, however, enjoy
- dialogue, and if you think you'd enjoy meeting up for a cup of
- coffee or tea, and you're in the Western Massachusetts
- area, <a href="/contact/">contact me</a>.
- </p>
- </div>
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