Notices by artsyhonker aka Kathryn (artsyhonker@mastodon.art)

@switchingsocial@mastodon.at @ak Thing is, OSM has better cycle infrastructure data than Google, and the offline map pack helps a lot when I'm in rural Somerset with no signal and no WiFi.

I find zooming out will eventually give me the name I'm looking for. The map has the data but doesn't display it at certain zoom distances.

@switchingsocial@mastodon.at @ak I have never used Qwanf (to my knowledge), but I do have this problem using Cyclestreets, which uses OSM data.

It's OK if I know the area where I am, but often that's not what maps are for...

@ak I think you should keep using it, and also think about ways to counter the celebrity culture that gives so much credit to those people. Torvalds may have started things rolling, but any modern Linux distribution is the work of many, many more developers. Similarly, Stallman may have been an important voice arguing for free software, but that would mean nothing without all the people who write it.

@iona I think asking @Curator for a boost might help.

@letthewatersroar No, it's still useful!

All I have had from other composers is "grant applications" which is... probably not something I'm suited to, tbh.

@letthewatersroar Interesting, thank you.

(Not sure how to translate that to choral music but will have a think!)

I know I ask about this sort of thing fairly frequently.

I think it's important for creative people (artists, musicians, whatever) to talk about how they engage with crapitalism, what works, what doesn't, and why.

If we *don't* talk about it openly, the only people who do will be the "marketing experts" who sell more marketing courses than artworks. I don't trust them.

OK that "GBP" snuck in and made a tautology, I am officially too tired to toot

Artists who take commissions with a value of £500 or more GBP, how do you get those commissions?

NB there is nothing wrong with lots of small-value commissions if that works for you, but it *doesn't* work for me, so, I'm interested in how other models work.

If you crowdfund your art/music/etc and you work in a niche that isn't very popular, or where each new work has a long lead-time, or both:

What works well for you? Why?

What doesn't work so well? Why?

What's one thing you could improve? What do you need for that to happen?