It bothers me that there are less women active in the group because there are a lot of women that are important and active in the space of FOC (I often reference work from women), so it's not only a theoretical or political concern for me. Sure not everyone that is part of the community is active, so membership is a little more diverse than the people that actively take place in discussion, but this is a mostly positive, optimistic community so I'd like to see more folks involved

If there are any women you know of that'd be good FoC podcast guests, I'd love recommendations. I have a long list of guests that I've thought of or that people have suggested, but too few of them are women. It'd be nice for me to have a whole bunch of options, so that I can continue my trend of trying to.. choose guests that build on an arc of ideas across episodes.

My short list Vi Hart, M Eiffler or Evelyn Eastmond https://theartofresearch.org/ - coding in XR or literally anything else in FOC Anastasia Opara (https://www.anastasiaopara.com/) - creation by example, procedural systems Emily Short (https://emshort.blog/) - to discuss IF parsers, Inform 7, narrative structures, conversational AI Kate Compton (http://www.galaxykate.com/) - end user programming\creation, generative systems, tracery, bottery

FWIW, Anastasia Opara is the only one not already on my list. Thank you!