{"id":109,"date":"2005-10-16T18:04:14","date_gmt":"2005-10-16T18:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apowell.mirverburg.net\/?p=109"},"modified":"2005-10-16T18:04:14","modified_gmt":"2005-10-16T18:04:14","slug":"ghosts-like-the-cooler-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/?p=109","title":{"rendered":"Ghosts like the cooler weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. . . so says Hawksley Workman. I think it&#8217;s time to get my ghosts out of the closet, to let them walk around a bit so I can see what they&#8217;re made of before they disappear again into the back of my mind.  It&#8217;s also time to end the madness of summer and settle into what is most important in my life &#8212; thinking and working and developing projects that reflect what it is I can do.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m working on a propsal to determine the cultures of development and use of open-source software &#8212; there seems to be a gap in the literature concerning &#8220;bottom-up&#8221; development as culturally speaking the developers don&#8217;t think of themselves as users.  I want to try and think about this more.<\/p>\n<p>My trip to London also made me think more about the intersections of culture and policy with grassroots tech development.  The German wireless community groups like <a href= \"http:\/\/www.freifunk.net\">Freifunk<\/a> are purposefully decentralized; there seems to be a political motivation for this linked to postwar German culture.<\/p>\n<p>Food for thought, and thought is the theme of the month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . so says Hawksley Workman. I think it&#8217;s time to get my ghosts out of the closet, to let them walk around a bit so I can see what they&#8217;re made of before they disappear again into the back of my mind. It&#8217;s also time to end the madness of summer and settle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-unexamined-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pUfdR-1L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonpowell.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}