Basak
I’m Başak, creator and maintainer of the independent digital narrative project Talking Smacks, exploring the intersection of free software culture, memes, mascots, and community storytelling. I also participate as a Linux volunteer at Linux Türkiye Topluluğu (LTT), focusing on community, culture, and collaborative narratives within free software ecosystems.
Session
Free software communities have always produced their own culture: mascots, memes, inside jokes, and shared narratives.
This Birds of a Feather session invites participants to discuss how these cultural artifacts shape community identity, communication, and participation.
The conversation will also touch on independent narrative projects such as Talking Smacks, which explore free software culture through fictional characters, satire, and community storytelling.
Rather than a presentation, this session will be an open discussion about how free software ecosystems generate their own subcultures-and what role creative projects can play within them.