New subject: globaloutlookdh-l Digest, Vol 5, Issue 5

11 Jan 2013

      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.p...
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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Executive and Chair Nominations/Volunteers (Daniel O'Donnell)
Infrastructure discussion (Daniel O'Donnell)

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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
To: A list for participants in the ADHO DH Global Outlook Community
   globaloutlookdh-l@uleth.ca
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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:

That our core activities are Discovery, Community-building, and Research.
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
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
To: A list for participants in the ADHO DH Global Outlook Community
   globaloutlookdh-l@uleth.ca
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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
Daniel Paul O'Donnell
Professor of English
University of Lethbridge
Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4
Canada
+1 403 393-2539

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