Just a last reminder, that the deadline to apply to THATCamp Virginia is TONIGHT, October 25th, at midnight EST.
On to the extras! We’re excited to announce that, in addition to our rich BootCamp program and Saturday-night outing to hear North America’s premier Nakashi surf rock band, Dzian!, we are arranging a Sunday expedition and special tour of Thomas Jefferson’s amazing home, Monticello!
Many thanks to our co-sponsors on the little mountain. And stay tuned for details!
Applications are now open for approximately 60 slots at THATCampVA!
DUE DATE: October 25th
Selected attendees will be notified by early November.
A limited number of fellowships, meant to defray costs of travel and lodging, are available for qualified THATCampers who plan to attend our BootCamp sessions. Determine your eligibility for a BootCamp fellowship at the link above, and apply separately.
We’re proud to announce the schedule for THATCampVA’s BootCamp, to be held Friday, December 17 in the Scholars’ Lab. The BootCamp will be composed of two tracks: a GIS Track featuring sessions lifted from the SLab’s NEH-funded Geospatial Institute and a General Track with introductions to a variety of tools and approaches to Web development, statistics, and qualitative analysis.
Interested in attending the BootCamp? Be sure to let us know when you apply for THATCampVA. Tuition is free, but a handful of fellowships are available to defray travel costs for qualified applicants.
| GIS Track Alderman Electronic Classroom |
General Track Scholars’ Lab Classroom |
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| 8am – 9am | Breakfast (Scholars’ Lab) | |
| 10am – 11am | Making Your First Map Chris Gist & Kelly Johnston |
Web Building Blocks Joe Gilbert |
| 11am – Noon | Virtual Globes Chris Gist & Kelly Johnston |
Programming with Ruby Wayne Graham |
| Noon – 1pm | Lunch (Scholars’ Lab) | |
| 1pm – 2pm | Working with Historic Maps Chris Gist & Kelly Johnston |
Statistical Analysis with R Kathy Gerber |
| 2pm – 3pm | Introduction to Web Mapping Joe Gilbert |
Qualitative Analysis with N’Vivo Nancy Kechner |
| 3pm – 4pm | GIS Playtime Chris Gist & Kelly Johnston |
Intro to CMSes: WordPress, Drupal, Omeka Rafael Alvarado & Patrick Murray-John |
Hey, campers! We’ll open up this site to THATCamp applicants and announce our exciting BootCamp program later this week — including two tracks: one offering a super-condensed version of the training program from the Scholars’ Lab’s NEH Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship, and the other on programming, web design, and content management skills for humanists! BootCamp will be held the day before THATCampVA starts. Tuition is free while spaces last, but you may be eligible for fellowship funding to defray travel expenses!
But, whatever. Here’s the big news: on Saturday night, December 18th, Dzian!, an international surf-garage rock band with a sizable local following, will play a special show for THATCampVA and friends at the 12th Street Tap House. Dzian! plays a selection of 1960s-70s dance pop and garage/surf rock from the entire continent of Asia. They perform semi-regularly with their own gogo dancers, The Nakashi Dancers, and have lately started a collaboration with Fire in the Belly, a local belly dance group. Best of all? Dzian! is led by digital humanists: Scholars’ Lab denizens and fellows, UVa music grad students and recent PhDs. Dzian! (That means “super-cool!”)
Just a quick update to say: look at our lovely new site! Many thanks to Regional THATCamp coordinator Amanda French and CHNM‘s Creative Lead, Jeremy Boggs, for the work they are doing on a “THATCamp-in-a-box” infrastructure to support events like ours — and to Joe Gilbert of the Scholars’ Lab for his efforts, too. Finally, thanks to Eric Johnson of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, for our periwigged, puffed-up, dare-I-say prestigiously presidential logo. If a cardinal in a peruke doesn’t scream “Central Virginia” we don’t know what does.
Local organizers are hard at work on the arrangements for December — including our planned BootCamp sessions the day before THATCamp begins. We hope to be opening this site up to applicants by October 8th, so stay tuned!
We’re excited to announce THATCampVA!
What?
You know! a regional THATCamp.
When?
A BootCamp (heavy on technologies for studying space and place) will be held on Friday, December 17th; then…
THATCampVA will be held on Saturday and Sunday, December 18th and 19th, 2010.
Where?
Charlottesville, Virginia (at UVA Library’s Scholars’ Lab)
Who?
Organizers include digital humanities folks from UVA, Mary Washington, Monticello, and other central Virginia institutions
— but this is your unconference!
Anybody with energy and an interest in the humanities and/or technology should attend.
We’ll start accepting proposals on this site in early October — and only have slots for 50-60 attendees! Participants will be notified of acceptance in November. Questions in the meantime? Email us!
Look here for more news soon — and follow us at @THATCampVA.
