Here’s my post-THATCamp reflection. Hope everyone keeps sharing here and on twitter.
Archive for March, 2011
Tales of a THATCamp newbie
Mar 20
I’ve posted ALL the tweets (I think) from #thatcamp arranged by session at adellef.co/318 . Sadly, my brain gave out, so a number of tweets are unaffiliated with their proper session. Your Comments could help, though!
I’ve temporarily made my blog open to all comments (I usually have to approve every one so as to prevent certain enlargement advertisers from using my site inappropriately). This means you’ll see your comments pop up automatically, at least until later this week when the SPAM gets really bad.
Thanks in advance for your assistance, kind thatcamp’ers!
Several Blog Post Links
Mar 8
I’ve done some blogging while at THATCamp and since I’ve come home.
- Notes on day one
- Notes on day two
- A summary for my place of work (ZSR Library @ Wake Forest University)
- A reflection post on my own blog
Great unconference you guys! You’ve given me a lot to think about and I already have some ideas about things I want to try to do in response both at my place of work and in my own scholarship. Thanks all!
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I wanted to thank everyone for their participating in the Introduction to Programming with Python and the follow-up session on Django during THATCamps’s BootCamp!
As mentioned during the session I am linking a few resources that can be helpful for aspiring Python Programmers as well as a few other resources referenced. I hope everyone finds them useful.
Great Python Resources
- The Zen of Python – What is the sound of One loop Iterating?
- Python For Non-Programmers – A great meta-list of tutorials and lessons on Python for the non-programmer.
- Google’s Python Classes – Some good screen-casts teaching python from the beginning.
- Official Python Documentation – Great documentation is a core value in the python community and few better examples than the official documentation.
- Django Documentation – The framework use in the second session is also well documented.
Other Resources
- Cool URI’s Don’t Change – Stable and persistent URIs are a vital part of creating durable scholarly works and the foundation of linked data. Every digital scholar can benefit from reading this article.
- O’Reilly on The Importance of Unit Testing – Always important to create a sustainable and extensible application, unit tests can be particularly vital in scholarly projects because of their long lifecycle.
Code From Sessions
Here are the hacky pages of code I was displaying during our session discussion. I don’t see an ability to upload files here so I’m linking them as Google docs.
Hi all, intrepid THATCamp Coordinator Amanda French here, signing on from the Center for History and New Media to ask you to fill out our THATCamp evaluation survey. It’s brief, and we’d love to hear from you. I must say I’m particularly keen to see what comes up in the “favorite session” fields, though those, like most in the survey, are not required.
Here’s the evaluation: surveymonkey.com/s/thatcampeval
Meanwhile, I have to give all of you a big fat “Strongly agree” on the Likert scale to the imagined survey items stating: “THATCamp Southeast provided a most interesting weekend Twitter stream” and “THATCamp Southeast participants came up with some fascinating session ideas and wrote some terrific blog posts.”
Post-Camp Blogging
Mar 7
I’ll collect the series of posts I’ll be making this week about my THATCamp SE experiences here. Expect updates.
I’d like to add a special thank you to our hosts, expression of admiration verging on jealousy for the beauty and functionality of the Emory Library space and its awesome guest wireless connection, and thanks to all who participated in conversations with me (or near me so I could eavesdrop.) I learned a lot. Best wishes to all – Phoebe Acheson, @classicslib
Why I Love THATCamp
Mar 7
Check out my post on “Why I Love THATCamp”! I don’t allow comments on my homepage, but I’d love to hear what you think here!
#Alt-ac Session Notes
Mar 6
Group edited notes here.
