Institute Fellow Laura James writes about the reasons for and process of rebranding the Festival of Maintenance.
My Fellowship is structured around the Festival of Maintenance, a celebration of those who maintain different parts of our world and how they do it. It recognises the often hidden work done in repair, custodianship, stewardship, tending and caring for the things that matter.
The Festival of Maintenance and the Maintainers recently ran our first joint online event, about the gig economy, a precarious form of maintenance.
By Dr Laura James, Software Sustainability Institute Fellow
By Laura James, Software Sustainability Institute Fellow
On Tuesday I was up at the University of Manchester for the first meeting of the 2019 Fellowship. The Institute gave us a great introduction and it was good how much they were keen to hear from us what we needed by way of support