messing around – THATCamp CHNM 2012 http://chnm2012.thatcamp.org The Humanities and Technology Camp Sun, 29 Jul 2012 01:05:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 I propose an anti-session on Messing Around Or Maybe Building Something Kinda Neat http://chnm2012.thatcamp.org/06/07/i-propose-an-anti-session-on-messing-around-or-maybe-building-something-kinda-neat/ http://chnm2012.thatcamp.org/06/07/i-propose-an-anti-session-on-messing-around-or-maybe-building-something-kinda-neat/#comments Thu, 07 Jun 2012 17:16:37 +0000 http://chnm2012.thatcamp.org/?p=401 Continue reading ]]>

At past THATCamps, I’ve had the most fun when I’ve ditched the official sessions (as “official” as THATCamp sessions can be) to do some organized messing around. Last year, it took the form of sitting down with a couple of my One Week | One Tool buddies and hacking away at Anthologize for a few hours.

So, in the spirit of goofing off semi-aimlessly, maybe we could:

  • Pick a free software project with a public bug tracker (Omeka? WordPress? Anthologize? etc) and submit some patches/pull requests.
  • If there are folks who have wanted to get started contributing to free software projects but haven’t had the right setup, I could help them set up dev environments, and maybe we could talk a bit about the culture of open source development.
  • We could pick some small project and roll our own One Afternoon | One Tool

The spirit here is that I work alone most of the time, so it would be fun to do some co-working with smart and cool people. Also, messing around is inherently the bomb.

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