Kathleen Fitzpatrick / is on Nostr

Interim Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies. Director, Knowledge Commons. Seeker of open infrastructure, open governance, and open scholarship.

Last Notes

2025-01-16 00:39:15

I find myself in the market for a new email host! Anybody have experience with Runbox? Or other services you like?

2024-12-25 16:25:07

Friends don’t let friends use academia-dot-edu. KC Works is open access, community governed, and free to all — and permits downloads without requiring a login. https://works.hcommons.org https://tech.lgbt/@endali/113713838028035744

2024-10-09 13:34:10

A thought experiment: if you suddenly had access to the resources required and had a burning desire to create a community-owned and -governed cloud computing/hosting service/alternative to AWS, what would you be sure to consider, include, provide, support?

2024-07-19 21:49:10

New post: Links
A thing that I have only just realized that I loathe about newsletters: when links in the newsletters have self-referential preview URLs. So when I hover over all the many clever links in “Your Newsletter,” they show up as taking me to yournewsletter.com followed by a hash that only on the server resolves into the actual URL, leaving me with no sense whatsoever about what I’m going to get yourself
https://kfitz.info/links/

2024-03-22 14:43:31

Friends, we’re soooooooo close to being done with a multi-year fundraising campaign — $40K (of $1.5MM) to go! Can you help? Every $3 in donations will unlock another $1 from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and will help keep the Commons team going! https://hcommons.social/@hello/112139698450498541

2024-02-28 14:11:29

If you’ve got a wordpress-dot-com blog and are thinking about pulling it down, might I suggest creating a site at https://hcommons.org and importing there? We are academy-owned and community-governed, we’re ad-free and anti-extractive, and we’re committed to keeping our values at the forefront of all our decision-making. (We’re also on spring break this week, but we’ll be happy to hop in and help out as needed once we’re back!)

2024-02-13 22:34:16

I just saw a post go by remarking on the floppy disk skeuomorph that still stands in as the icon for "save." I get it! Totally anachronistic. But say we drop that icon. What do we use instead? How do you visualize "save" when it's all *waves hands* clouds and SSDs?

2024-02-09 17:00:43

A warning for the ages.
https://spaces.hcommons.social/media_attachments/files/111/902/587/282/860/387/original/fdea938415156c72.jpeg

2023-07-01 21:00:42

Hello friends! If you have academic friends seeking a congenial, collectivist refuge from whatever seems to be happening over on Melonhead's site, may I suggest hcommons.social? We operate with a set of server rules that we take seriously (https://hcommons.social/about) and we have an amazing local feed. Tell your friends!

2023-06-22 17:09:45

Can anyone tell me how customized Quarto's version of reveal.js is? Are the modifications all handled through available plugins? #Quarto #Reveal

2023-06-16 17:51:39

I see this all the time, and have felt acutely how narrow the space between “too young” and “too old” is for professional women. https://mstdn.social/@amydiehl/110554400189523923

2022-11-12 15:06:24

It occurs to me that I haven't done a proper #introduction on this new instance! My formal job title is Director of Digital Humanities and Professor of English at Michigan State University, but alongside that I also direct #MeshResearch, a lab focused on building open-source interoperable tools for new forms of scholarly communication. I'm also director of #HumanitiesCommons, a scholarly network serving something like 50,000 users across the humanities and around the world.* And of course I'm one of your friendly neighborhood hcommons.social admins.
My #research interests circulate around the future of #scholarlyCommunication, as one component of thinking about how #universities might become more #open, more #generous spaces for cultural and intellectual work. Of late, that interest has led me to thinking a lot about #leadership and #governance, and particularly ways that they can be more #collective and #collaborative.