Here is how THATCamp works. Other than the workshops, we don’t have anything planned—you’re the ones who do the planning. Over the next few days you can post your session ideas to the TCNE website. Also over the next few days, you should read other people’s proposals and comment on them if you wish. On Saturday morning, everyone will get to vote for the sessions you want to participate in, which will then become our schedule for the rest of the day.
Obviously this works better if more people propose sessions that they’ve put some thought into. Here’s what makes for a good session proposal:
- It’s NOT a paper, or a talk, or a lecture, but an idea for a conversation.
- It proposes a topic related to technology and humanities that a group of people can discuss in an hour or so.
- And ideally, the session will produce something useful: a list of resources, or some hacked code, or a syllabus.
There are more ideas and guidelines on the THATCamp website.
So please visit the list of session proposals, then add yours with your login to WordPress.
Also, if you’re interested in giving a lightning presentation, sign up here.
1 comment
jburt
October 16, 2011 at 8:01 pm (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Tools for scholars for preparation and publication of texts: LaTeX, BibTeX, MakeIndex.
LaTeX is an open-source, free typesetting system for producing beautiful books. It is available for almost every operating system, and is a stable, mature product with a large user base. With it, you can make camera-ready pdf’s of books and theses, plus
other documents of many kinds. It has too many features to name in a short description, and in power it is closer to a desktop publishing system than to a word processor. BibTeX is a bibliography database management system designed to work with LaTeX. It is similar in power to Endnote and Zoho. MakeIndex is a utility for making complex, multi-level indexes (indices?). It is designed to work with LaTeX, but can also be used to organize an index you prepare from galleys.