From jgsmith at tamu.edu  Mon Oct 29 08:45:23 2007
From: jgsmith at tamu.edu (James Smith)
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:45:23 -0500
Subject: [Dahut-pm] Digital Humanities
Message-ID: <FA3F8E69-F171-415D-835D-4E551453370A@tamu.edu>

Patience works sometimes.

In August of '04, I sent this list an e-mail about putting together a  
proposal for a position here at the University:

 > The position I am proposing would act as a facilitator, helping
 > faculty understand the creative commons that is the bedrock of OSS
 > and how to leverage OSS for their own projects.  This position would
 > also investigate building a low-cost, high-availability, and
 > low-maintenance platform for producing applications that are parts of
 > faculty projects.

Well, after three years, I'm moving to a new position that was  
created this year as a result of that seed.  The move is effective 1  
Nov.

The job description is a bit long, but it boils down to managing  
faculty projects, trying to find parts of projects that can be  
released as F/OSS, engineering production/test environments, creating/ 
running workshops and tutorials for faculty, attending appropriate  
conferences, and networking with other universities.  There are about  
40 faculty interested in this.  It helps that the (U.S.) National  
Endowment for the Humanities is pushing open source now in the  
digital humanities.

As a result, I'll be jumping back into the F/OSS world.  I can't  
promise a lot of Perl/mod_perl stuff (though I have some projects I  
want to do there -- including breaking out parts of the Gestinanna  
project that I had to shelve a couple years ago), but I hope to be  
much more active.  I might even make it to OSCon again.
--
James Smith <JGSmith at TAMU.Edu>
Texas A&M University, College of Liberal Arts
Digital Humanities Lead Developer (as of 1 Nov)




From matt at sergeant.org  Mon Oct 29 10:04:30 2007
From: matt at sergeant.org (Matt Sergeant)
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:04:30 -0400
Subject: [Dahut-pm] Digital Humanities
In-Reply-To: <FA3F8E69-F171-415D-835D-4E551453370A@tamu.edu>
References: <FA3F8E69-F171-415D-835D-4E551453370A@tamu.edu>
Message-ID: <3545EE3F-BC53-4D51-9610-1F82CE76B454@sergeant.org>

Congratulations, James.

On 29-Oct-07, at 11:45 AM, James Smith wrote:

> Patience works sometimes.
>
> In August of '04, I sent this list an e-mail about putting together a
> proposal for a position here at the University:
>
>> The position I am proposing would act as a facilitator, helping
>> faculty understand the creative commons that is the bedrock of OSS
>> and how to leverage OSS for their own projects.  This position would
>> also investigate building a low-cost, high-availability, and
>> low-maintenance platform for producing applications that are parts of
>> faculty projects.
>
> Well, after three years, I'm moving to a new position that was
> created this year as a result of that seed.  The move is effective 1
> Nov.
>
> The job description is a bit long, but it boils down to managing
> faculty projects, trying to find parts of projects that can be
> released as F/OSS, engineering production/test environments, creating/
> running workshops and tutorials for faculty, attending appropriate
> conferences, and networking with other universities.  There are about
> 40 faculty interested in this.  It helps that the (U.S.) National
> Endowment for the Humanities is pushing open source now in the
> digital humanities.
>
> As a result, I'll be jumping back into the F/OSS world.  I can't
> promise a lot of Perl/mod_perl stuff (though I have some projects I
> want to do there -- including breaking out parts of the Gestinanna
> project that I had to shelve a couple years ago), but I hope to be
> much more active.  I might even make it to OSCon again.
> --
> James Smith <JGSmith at TAMU.Edu>
> Texas A&M University, College of Liberal Arts
> Digital Humanities Lead Developer (as of 1 Nov)
>
>
>
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From chris at prather.org  Mon Oct 29 16:53:53 2007
From: chris at prather.org (Chris Prather)
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:53:53 -0500
Subject: [Dahut-pm] Digital Humanities
In-Reply-To: <FA3F8E69-F171-415D-835D-4E551453370A@tamu.edu>
References: <FA3F8E69-F171-415D-835D-4E551453370A@tamu.edu>
Message-ID: <AC677B26-061C-4716-8859-0C8AF2144210@prather.org>


On Oct 29, 2007, at 10:45 a, James Smith wrote:

> creating/
> running workshops

Does this mean you're responsible for setting up Dahutcon::NA?

::grin::

-Chris