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 == Live coding and citizen science: FoAM Kernow ==
-Over the autumn FoAM Kernow has both been investigating the future of live coding, and working on citizen science games and apps with a number of new collaborators. Highlights include: the release of ‘The Farm Crap App’ with Cornwall’s Duchy College, part of a scheme to highlight the value of organic fertilisers compared to costly and unsustainable synthetic ones, and ‘Where is that Nest?’ -- a citizen science game measuring egg pattern camouflage, developed in collaboration with the Sensory Ecology group at Exeter University. It is a followup to ‘Where is that Nightjar?’, which has been played over 10,000 times.
+Over the autumn FoAM Kernow has been investigating the future of live coding, and working on citizen science games and apps with a number of new collaborators. Highlights include: the release of ‘The Farm Crap App’ with Cornwall’s Duchy College, part of a scheme to highlight the value of organic fertilisers compared to costly and unsustainable synthetic ones, and ‘Where is that Nest?’ -- a citizen science game measuring egg pattern camouflage, developed in collaboration with the Sensory Ecology group at Exeter University. It is a followup to ‘Where is that Nightjar?’, which has been played over 10,000 times.
 In September Dave Griffiths attended ‘Collaboration and learning through live coding’, a seminar in Schloss Dagstuhl that explored live coding with experts in the fields of education and software engineering, leading to some exciting new collaborations (watch this space). He has also co-authored a new publication featured in the //Ecology and Evolution Journal//: ‘Smartphones in ecology and evolution: a guide for the app-rehensive’. It includes discussions of the DORIS lobster mapper, Boskoi and Ushahidi.
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 hosting craft http://lib.fo.am/hosting_craft --> i don't know how to fit this in... maybe leave it out until the next newsletter?
-Finally -- you might laugh after reading all of the above -- we're working hard on a new project: Doing Nothing. In view of the malaise fuelled by stress, overwork, financial and social uncertainty and other well-known pain points pervading the cultural sector but also the wider society of Europe and beyond, FoAM has initiated a practice-based research programme on how to do nothing: creating space and time to decompress amidst our hectic lives. So far the research has looked at how how to do this on a daily basis at a microcosmic scale, in FoAM and our networks, but in 2014--2015 the programme will be extended. In the spirit of Doing Nothing, we may not document it explicitly or extensively, but we do encourage you to browse some of the exercises and inspirations have begun to amass on the project's dedicated Libarynth page.
+Finally -- you might laugh after reading all of the above -- we're working hard on a new project: **Doing Nothing**. In view of the malaise fuelled by stress, overwork, financial and social uncertainty and other well-known pain points pervading the cultural sector but also the wider society of Europe and beyond, FoAM has initiated a practice-based research programme on how to do nothing: creating space and time to decompress amidst our hectic lives. So far the research has looked at how how to do this on a daily basis at a microcosmic scale, in FoAM and our networks, but in 2014--2015 the programme will be extended. In the spirit of Doing Nothing, we may not document it explicitly or extensively, but we do encourage you to browse some of the exercises and inspirations have begun to amass on the project's dedicated Libarynth page.
 [[http://fo.am/doing-nothing/|Doing Nothing]]\\