Our Digital Futures with Permanent

Amanda Meeks

A podcast that explores the ins and outs of preserving one's legacy in an ever-changing digital landscape.

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  1. 11.12.2023

    Permanent's Mission Unpacked

    In this episode we are joined by Dr. Robert Friedman, the Executive Director of the Permanent Legacy Foundation. Together, we discuss what makes the Permanent Legacy Foundation a unique tech non-profit for social good and how we plan for the future, especially in such uncertain times.  Guest Name: Dr. Robert Friedman Email: robert@permanent.org Pronouns: he/him Bio: Dr. Robert Friedman has over a decade of experience in the non-profit sector focused on developing an inclusive and ethical digital community. As the Executive Director of the Permanent Legacy Foundation, Dr. Friedman is building a nonprofit, historical trust to guarantee secure digital preservation for all people. Previously, he lead the Mozilla Foundation Internet Health agenda in Texas, working with Austin community leaders to advance digital inclusion, internet decentralization, open innovation, online privacy and security, and web literacy. As a community organizer and educator in Chicago, Dr. Friedman worked with museums, cultural institutions, community-based organizations, and schools to advance equitable access to digital learning opportunities for young people. His nonprofit career began at the Adler Planetarium, where he established a STEM program for young adults at a world renowned museum. Dr. Friedman holds a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the University of Chicago. He was a 2019 Leadership Austin Essential alum and the previous Community Tech Network board vice chair. Together, he and his wife Zarah make their home in the Lost Pines of Central Texas with their two young children, dogs and chickens.

    37 мин.
  2. 02.10.2023

    Critical Family History

    In this episode we are joined by Dr. Christine Sleeter, who shares her expertise on critical family history, which is a framework she developed to help people reckon with the messier and complex parts of history, particularly within their own family lineages. October is Family History Month, which is the perfect time to explore questions you have related to your ancestors’ experiences and legacies. Guest Name: Christine Sleeter Email: csleeter@gmail.com Pronouns: she/her Bio: Christine E. Sleeter, PhD. is Professor Emerita in the College of Education at California State University Monterey Bay, where she was a founding faculty member. She has served as a visiting professor at several universities, including the University of Maine, University of Colorado Boulder, Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, and Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia in Spain. She is past President of the National Association for Multicultural Education, and past Vice President of the American Educational Research Association. Her research focuses on anti-racist multicultural education, ethnic studies, and teacher education. She has published over 170 articles and 21 books, most recently Critical Race Theory and its Critics (with F. A. López, Teachers College Press, 2023). She has also published three novels, the most recent being Family History in Black and White. She is a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association and of the National Education Policy Center, and a member of the National Academy of Education. Awards for her work include the American Educational Research Association Social Justice in Education Award, the Chapman University Paulo Freire Education Project Social Justice Award, and the Willamette University Distinguished Alumni Citation for Professional Achievement. Links: Critical Family HistoryHow to Use Dr. Sleeter's BlogCritical Family History Context Questions FrameworkComing to the Table Organization

    33 мин.
  3. 02.08.2023

    The Sustainability of Slowness

    In this episode we are joined by the Flickr Foundation Executive Director, George Oates, and interdisciplinary scholar and curator, Temi Odumosu, who share about their research and thinking behind the 100 year plan, an effort to design for long term sustainability. We explore this idea from the perspective of cultural heritage organizations concerned with digital collections and preservation. Guest Name: George Oates Email: glo@flickr.org Pronouns: She/her Bio: George Oates is a designer and maker. She's also the Executive Director of the new Flickr Foundation. Our mission is to keep the billions of images on Flickr visible for 100 years. Guest Name: Temi Odumosu Email: todumosu@uw.edu Pronouns: She/her Bio: Temi Odumosu is an interdisciplinary scholar and curator at the University of Washington Information School, with a teaching focus on critical and creative approaches to understanding information technology’s role within society, particularly how unfinished colonial histories and their inequalities haunt data, uses of information and technology design. Her research and curatorial work are engaged with the visual and affective politics of slavery and colonialism, racial coding in popular culture, postmemorial art and performance, image ethics and cultural heritage digitization. Overall, she is focused on the ways art can mediate social transformation and healing. Dr. Odumosu is author of the book Africans in English Caricature 1769-1819: Black Jokes White Humour (2017). Links: www.Flickr.org    www.temiodumosu.com “The Crying Child On Colonial Archives, Digitization, and Ethics of Care in the Cultural Commons” “Thick Description: On the possibilities for vibrant anti-colonial record-keeping”

    47 мин.
  4. 11.05.2023

    The Peale: A Museum Model for Community Storytelling

    Join host Amanda Meeks in conversation with Heather Shelton, the Peale’s digital curator, registrar, and communications specialist, on all things that make a “community museum” and how the Peale supports Baltimore’s storytellers. Guest Name: Heather Shelton Email: online@thepealecenter.org Pronouns: she/her Bio: Heather Shelton is the Peale’s digital curator, registrar, and communications specialist, focusing on the Peale’s online presence and its growing collection of Baltimore stories. She has undergraduate degrees in Art History and English Literature from the University of Virginia and an M.A. in Art History from Virginia Commonwealth University. With more than 25 years of museum and archives experience, Heather has held positions in virtually every department–from curation and collections care to public relations and education. From 2004-2006, she worked exclusively in print, writing and editing exhibition scripts and educational materials at the Smithsonian, but in 2006, with the advent of Facebook and social media, she transitioned almost entirely to the web, becoming the leading digital voice of the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. Today, Heather works with the Peale and other innovative cultural organizations, like the Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street program, to provide structure and meaning to a sea of digital content. Links: https://www.thepeale.org/

    44 мин.
  5. 08.04.2023

    The Free Open Source Stories Digital Archive

    Join host Amanda Meeks in a conversation with Heather Meeker, founder of the Free Open Source Stories Digital Archive (FOSSDA), and learn about how and why the project was started. Plus, get a sneak peek into some of the amazing interviews Heather has conducted so far, where she captures the personal stories from the open source movement’s pioneers. Guest name: Heather Meeker Email: heatherjmeeker@gmail.com Pronouns: she/her Bio: Heather Meeker is the founder of the FOSSDA project. She is a General Partner at OSS Capital, www.oss.capital, an early stage venture capital fund specializing in commercial open source development. She is also a partner at Tech Law Partners, LLP, www.techlawpartners.com, a law firm focused on technology transactions. Meeker is an internationally-known specialist in open source software licensing.  She is the primary drafter of many widely-used licenses, including Elastic 2.0, and served on the core drafting team for Mozilla Public License 2.0 and the PolyForm licenses. Her book Open Source for Business, now in its third edition, is a definitive handbook for lawyers, engineers, and businesspersons on open source licensing in business.  In 2019, Meeker was named by Business Insider as one of the ten people transforming the way the technology industry does business, along with the CEOs of Salesforce, Stripe, and Microsoft.  She was the only lawyer on this list. Heather is a former professional musician and enjoys dancing, gaming and travel. Links:  https://fossda.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1633/collection_resources/80243 https://fossda.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus

    21 мин.
  6. 03.01.2023

    Preservation to the People

    Join host Amanda Meeks in conversation with Robert LaRose and Biljana Milenkovic, librarians at the DC Public Library's Memory Lab, to learn how they make digitization and digital archiving accessible to the general public. They also share insight and tips on getting started with your own digital archives or digitization projects. Bonus: Explore the Memory Lab Network map to find a lab near you! Guest: Robert LaRose Email: robert.larose@dc.gov Pronouns: he/him Bio: Robert LaRose is a digital curation librarian in The People's Archive at DC Public Library. From 2018-2022, he was responsible for overseeing the operation of DCPL's Memory Lab. This included training users, troubleshooting, maintaining and repairing equipment, creating instructional documentation, spreading awareness of the lab among the general public, and serving as an "on-the-ground" liaison to the Memory Lab Network's project manager, Siobhan Hagan. He was also the host of Memories on Tap, the library's podcast series devoted to amplifying the stories of Memory Lab users and their experiences with digitizing and preserving their personal collections. Guest: Biljana Milenkovic Email: biljana.milenkovic@gmail.com Pronouns: she/her Bio: Biljana Milenkovic (known as B) is a librarian at the Labs at DC Public Library. A Jill-of-all-trades, she is versed in multi-media production and all things Memory Lab. Links:  Memory Lab LibguideDC Public Library Podcast and DCPL Radio, which both contain episodes of "Memories on Tap" highlighting Memory Lab users and their stories.Memory Lab Network site

    39 мин.

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A podcast that explores the ins and outs of preserving one's legacy in an ever-changing digital landscape.