Amanda French – THATCamp CHNM 2011

Joint Session: THATCamps LAC and Prime (x-posted)

Amanda French — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 20:17:18 +0000

Cross-posted from lac2011.thatcamp.org/06/04/joint-session-thatcamps-lac-and-prime

Collaboration

Recent notices from funding agencies have been clear – they want to fund digital humanities work and they want to fund collaborations between R1 and Liberal Arts Colleges. Given this, we’d like to devote this session to talking about how we can best foster, propose, and run such collaboration.

This might include topics such as identifying collaborators, expertise (pedagogical, technical, disciplinary) sharing, ways to source “cycles” and to establish test beds, infrastructure, data set sharing, maximizing the opportunities of undergraduate research and pedagogy, and more!

Where to have dinner

Amanda French — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 15:37:53 +0000

There’s so many of us that we won’t all fit in one restaurant, but we have three suggestions for where to repair starting at 5:30 or so. We also hear that a few people might drop by from the American Association of University Publishers meeting . . . that should be interesting!

AULD SHEBEEN

Great Irish pub with fish and chips and the like. Catch a ride over with someone as they’re leaving or Twitter your need for a ride.
THE WELL OR BOXWOOD AT THE MASON INN

If you don’t have a car or can’t catch a ride, this might be your best bet. Terrific bar and bar food at “The Well,” plus a higher-end restaurant called Boxwood.
BOLLYWOOD BISTRO

Good Indian restaurant just across from the Auld Shebeen.

I’ve made this map publicly editable (since you wouldn’t let me for the schedule), so feel free to add suggestions.

View THATCamp Restaurants in a larger map

Finding and modifying WordPress themes

Amanda French — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:29:09 +0000

Practice sites

Tasks

1) Create a child theme for the TwentyTen theme (style.css file only).
2) Create an author.php template page for your child theme.
3) Add the user’s e-mail address to the author_meta
4) Add the template tag that adds the author’s profile website to the author page.

CORRECTION TO WI-FI PASSWORD

Amanda French — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:29:35 +0000

There’s a typo in the wi-fi password on the back of your badges; ‘pre’ should actually be ‘pr3’. The rest of the password is correct. Happy internetting!

Final reminders, updates

Amanda French — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 21:34:02 +0000

Hi all,

Just a couple of updates. Note well that we’ve shifted the times a bit for the morning workshops tomorrow — we’ve shortened the sessions a bit, because we felt that at an hour forty-five they were a bit long. Shortening them also gives us more time for livestream of Digital Campus, which is now taking place at noon (not 1pm as previously announced). The only change in workshop start times, however, is that workshops which were to start at 11am will now start at 10:30am — all other start times remain the same. See chnm2011.thatcamp.org/schedule and chnm2011.thatcamp.org/bootcamp for the correct times. Do also check to make sure that you’ve got all necessary software, data, accounts and expertise for the workshops you want to attend. Space in particular workshops is first-come first-served.

We’re also meeting informally for drinks at the Mason Inn this evening (Thursday) starting at 6pm. Hope to see you there.

Finally, we’ve learned that there’s a high school graduation taking place at GMU at 2:30pm on Sunday, which will snarl traffic a bit starting at 1:30, so if you’re driving, be sure to take that into account.

See you soon!

Amanda

THATCamp: A week and a day away

Amanda French — Thu, 26 May 2011 04:47:35 +0000

Some reminders and information as we approach THATCamp CHNM:

Campers have been proposing and commenting on some rather astonishingly awesome sessions — "The Politics of Data," "Building a Better Backchannel," an independent "UnPress" for academic publishing, paper prototyping "nifty visual interfaces," and diversity and accessibility in digital humanities, just for example. Check them out for yourself and add your comments at chnm2011.thatcamp.org. Propose your own session idea before Saturday, 6/4 by logging in at chnm2011.thatcamp.org/wp-login.php and clicking Posts –> Add New. See thatcamp.org/proposals for guidance. While you're logged in, you might update your profile so that we can learn about you on the Campers page at chnm2011.thatcamp.org/campers.
There's a new workshop being offered on Friday, 6/3: Using Wikis as Courseware and Exhibition Development Tools, generously offered by Kimon Keramidas. Do be sure to read the workshop descriptions at chnm2011.thatcamp.org/bootcamp carefully: some workshop instructors ask that participants come with certain skills, software, or accounts. Workshop seating will be first come, first served.
Make your reservations at the Residence Inn Fair Lakes by May 30th in order to receive the conference rate of $85. All travel information is at chnm2011.thatcamp.org/travel — we've added a map and further details about busses, shuttles, and parking.
Sadly (very sadly), we can guarantee neither ovens nor refrigerators to participants in the Sunday afternoon bakeoff. However, you may bring your baked goods at any time and we will find a cool, dry, out-of-the-way spot for them until Sunday afternoon; certain kindly, self-disciplined CHNM employees might be convinced to give said goods safe fridge room at home till Sunday. The bakeoff judging will be crowdsourced, and we'll make up some rules and procedures for it eventually. Probably Sunday morning. (It's really THATCamps Virginia and Great Lakes who are to blame for this.)

See also chnm2011.thatcamp.org/05/13/thatcamp-chnm-details/ and as always, write me at info@thatcamp.org with any questions. See you next week!

THATCamp CHNM details

Amanda French — Fri, 13 May 2011 21:25:59 +0000

THATCamp CHNM at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media is exactly three weeks away! We’ve got 154 people attending, so this should be one of our liveliest camps yet. Here’s some requests, plus more information below:

We’re looking for volunteers to teach a couple more workshops — write info@thatcamp.org if you’d be willing to teach something.
We’re ordering t-shirts on May 17: please log in to your profile at chnm2011.thatcamp.org/wp-login.php and indicate your t-shirt size (now with women’s t-shirts, hooray!)
If you haven’t yet reserved a hotel room, be advised that the Mason Inn is now full. We’ve obtained a block of rooms at the Residence Inn Marriott for a reduced rate of $85 (which includes breakfast and Internet). Call 1-800-331-3131 before May 31 and mention THATCamp to get the conference rate. It’s a little further away from campus, but is right on a CUE bus line, and we’ll also be using Twitter and the blog to arrange carpools.
Finally, it’s time to start proposing and discussing sessions! See thatcamp.org/proposals for advice on unconference session proposals. Log in at chnm2011.thatcamp.org/wp-login.php and go to Post –> Add new to post your session proposal to the blog, and come back often to read and comment on others’ proposals. On Saturday morning we’ll all work together to create the schedule from these and other suggestions.

What to bring, what to wear

Bring a laptop, tablet computer, and/or a smartphone. Dress is very casual, so t-shirts and flipflops are fine.

Workshops

Friday, June 3rd will be devoted to tech training workshops in a series we call “BootCamp.” Be sure to visit chnm2011.thatcamp.org/bootcamp to see prerequisites for and descriptions of the workshops. Note especially that we’ve added a workshop to the schedule: Trevor Owens will teach “Intro to ReCollection,” a Linked Open Data platform for creating beautiful and informative visualizations from digital collections.

Schedule and social activities

We’ll begin on Friday, June 3rd, with breakfast and registration from 8:30am to 9:00am. We’ll also provide lunch that day, and while you eat, you can watch us record an episode of the Digital Campus. Workshops will run till 5:30pm. For those who are interested, we’re arranging a meetup on Friday at 6:00pm at The Auld Shebeen, an Irish pub in downtown Fairfax; the bar of the Mason Inn is also a good place to meet up. On Saturday, June 4th, we’ll again have breakfast & registration from 8:30 to 9:00, and we’ll again provide lunch, ending by 5:30pm in time for drinks and dinner at the Mason Inn or wherever you choose. Sunday, June 5th will also begin with breakfast at 8:30, but we’ll wrap up in time for lunch (on your own this time) to allow campers to catch their flights home. Sunday at 1pm we’re also having a THATCAMP BAKEOFF; bring baked goods of any kind, and our esteemed panel of judges (yet to be determined) will determine a winner, who will receive free copies of the TechSmith software Camtasia Studio and SnagIt.

More questions? Write info@thatcamp.org. Don’t forget to follow the #thatcamp hashtag on Twitter, too.

Lodging link fixed — can now reserve for June 2

Amanda French — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 21:59:27 +0000

You should now be able to reserve rooms for the Mason Inn on the night of June 2nd using the reservation link. Please reserve your rooms by May 4th to make sure you get the conference rate, and hey! May the 4th be with you!

What time is it? It’s THATCamp time!

Amanda French — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 23:58:09 +0000

All year has been THATCamp time, seems like, but we’re now talking about that THATCamp, which will take place

June 3-5, 2011
Center for History and New Media, Fairfax, VA

We’ve instituted some changes this year:

THATCamp will be larger: we’re planning on having about 125 people who do all kinds of work related to the humanities and technology;
THATCamp will be truly open to all: instead of having an application process, we’ll be accepting all registrations up to 125 people until April 22;
THATCamp will have a BootCamp: the unconference will happen as usual on the weekend over a day and a half, but the Friday beforehand will be devoted to a series of workshops dedicated to improving technical skills; and
THATCamp is planning on at least two virtual sessions in which we get to talk to campers at THATCamp Liberal Arts Colleges and to Jon Voss about the outcome of his Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives, and Museums Summit.

Needless to say, we’re psyched. See you there.