On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 10:23 AM, John Simpson <jes6@ualberta.ca> wrote:
Hello Global DHers,I'd like to pursue an idea that came up in Havana that can be roughly summarized as "DH on a Stick". Roughly it would focus on the minimal tools and materials necessary to get started doing DH in environments that are less ideal. The core idea is to understand what software and materials could be loaded on a USB drive for distribution, taking into consideration space limitations, language constraints, processing power, end user needs/goals, etc. Building out from this are ideas having to do with new simple techs like Raspberry Pi.Beyond the practical value of linking the community together and enabling new members it would also have deep research value in creating discussions around what is essential. Various snapshots of stick flavours or versions taken over time would be valuable to analyze in the future.Here's a link to the summary that I wrote up after the INKE Havana Conference that is in my Dropbox:https://www.dropbox.com/s/7tosulwfwwk5rgq/DH%20on%20a%20Stick%202012-12-14.pdf
If the link doesn't work and you are interested then let me know and I'll send the file directly.
-John
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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:44:11 -0700
From: Daniel O'Donnell <daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca>
Subject: [globaloutlookDH-l] Executive and Chair
Nominations/Volunteers
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Hi all,
As many of you will know, we received approval from the ADHO steering
Committee last week to be recognised as a formal Special Interest Group
(SIG).
This brings with it some organisational and reporting responsibilities.
We must elect a chair and establish an executive that includes (in
addition to other volunteers or elected members) ex officio
representation from the various constituent organisations that make up ADHO.
In order to set up our initial administrative structure, we ask you to
a) Nominate or volunteer to be a candidate for chair.
b) Nominate somebody or volunteer to be a member of our first year's
executive committee. This will be a group of 6-10 people that will help
with general administrative tasks, which include coordinating different
activities and regional efforts, administering and raising funds,
managing our web presence and outreach. The chair and executive will
also work this year on drafting bylaws for approval by the SIG and on
helping establish regional and project-oriented workgroups. We'd
especially like to ensure that we have a diversity of views,
experiences, languages, etc. on this, so if you have any interest at all
in the committee, please consider volunteering.
If you would like to nominate or volunteer for either chair or executive
you can do so by writing to Alex Gil (colibri.alex@gmail.com) with the
subject line GO::DH Exec Council. Alex will coordinate the election of
the chair if required. If he receives a larger or smaller number of
volunteers for the executive than is manageable, he will return to the
list for advice.
We'd like to have the executive and chair in place by the end of next
week, so nominations/self-nominations should be submitted to Alex no
later than next Thursday (January 17, 2013).
In addition to the core council, we will be supporting working groups.
I've been discussing with Neil Fraistat, the ADHO chair, Alex Gil, and
Marcus Bingenheimer, who have been acting with me as (self-appointed)
co-chairs of the initial proposal, and we think that it might also be
useful to follow the following principles in structuring and staffing
these working groups:
1) That our core activities are Discovery, Community-building, and Research.
2) That we seek always to ensure that perspectives from different
regions, types of economies, languages, ranks, and types of employment
are represented in our leadership, activities, and working groups
3) That we support the use of multiple languages in our activities and
leadership as much as possible.
We are also working hard on our web presence
(http://www.globaloutlookDH.org/) and we will have some news about that
shortly, including a list of current activities that fall under our purview.
All the best,
=dan
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Daniel Paul O'Donnell
Professor of English
University of Lethbridge
Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4
Canada
+1 403 393-2539
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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:05:10 -0700
From: Daniel O'Donnell <daniel.odonnell@uleth.ca>
Subject: [globaloutlookDH-l] Infrastructure discussion
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Hi all,
One of the many exciting things that have been going on in the last week
is a discussion among a number of the Canadians who were at the INKE
meeting in Cuba last month picking up the question of computing
infrastructure, and working with minimal resources (this is a discussion
that was started in the Cuban meeting).
Not everybody in the discussion was on the globaloutlook list at the
time, so it was happening off list. But since this is a topic on which
different perspectives are absolutely constructive, it would make a lot
of sense to move it here, at least initially, so that others who are
interested can get to know each other.
We don't really have a model for conducting such discussions. Should
people work things out on this list, for example, or instead invite
people to participate off list and report back so as not to flood
people's inboxes?
It seems to me that once the executive is established, we may find that
we want to set up working groups on specific projects and regions who
could initiate projects and report back periodically. Maybe this is one
of those.
Anyway: I'll had the floor over to John Simpson at Alberta and Jentery
Sayers at UVic to explain more about the discussions they've all been
having on this topic.
-dan
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Daniel Paul O'Donnell
Professor of English
University of Lethbridge
Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4
Canada
+1 403 393-2539
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