Dear list, I am writing to you as I recently published a Master's thesis upon graduating from the Experimental Publishing degree programme at the Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy. 'To Any Software Users: Collective Identity and Software-Based Creative Practitioners' was written in ConTeXt and is licensed under a Cooperative Non-Violent Public License. The thesis puts forward the position that performance-oriented activities are integral to building positive sentiment amongst creative, software based collectives. I emphasise the importance of feminist and collaborative practices as a remedy against the deleterious effects that software can have on individuals. This stance is fleshed out in response to the apparent contradiction between the ideals of software on the one hand, and its susceptibility to offensive applications and violent appropriation on the other. The argument is re-iterated in the choice of a public license which prohibits aggressive, discriminatory and other malevolent uses of the text and source code. It occurs to me that such community building practices carry weight in this context. I am reminded, for example, of the placid atmosphere which arose during a soroban making workshop at the 18th Annual ConTeXt meeting last year. And I appreciated the conversation which ensued following the live coding x typesetting performance I gave at the same meeting. While I do not discuss these moments in the body of the text I found them thought-provoking. Structurally, the single-document algorithm was crafted over the course of several sleepless nights by me (another detrimental aspect of software which too many are familiar with: losing sleep...) It playfully refuses a \starttext ... \stoptext structure which generates a non-fatal error in the logs. The document is read by luametatex from top to bottom and utilises buffers in a reflexive, performance-oriented way. That is, the main.tex file passed to the luametatex programme gets overwritten during the runs; the buffers are saved to files and the computational medium is thus foregrounded. These actions demonstrate the ephemerality of the source code and invite a performative interpretation of ConTeXt- but enough about the workflow. I'm optimistic that parts of the source code could be useful to the ConTeXt distribution. For example, it was necessary to write code that might be useful as a basis for a Harvard referencing bibliographical style (based on London Southbank University's Harvard Referencing Style guidelines). To my understanding such a template is not a part of the distribution yet, but, for example, APA is. I think this would be a valuable contribution which could encourage or facilitate more arts-based researchers to engage with the ConTeXt software. I would like to offer my thanks to everyone involved in the development of ConTeXt! You can read the thesis here: https://project.xpub.nl/routers-are-computers/thesis.pdf and find the source code here: https://git.xpub.nl/XPUB/project.xpub.nl/raw/branch/master/routers-are-compu... Kind regards, Riviera