week1.md

Week 1 | February 2

Agenda

• Welcome
• Introductions
• Presentation by GC Fellows Mary Catherine Kinniburgh and Patrick Smyth
• Course logistics
  • GitHub
  • Academic Commons blog
  • Basecamp
    • Add your emails to the following spreadsheet
• Next steps for project pitches

Digital Fellows resources

• Python User Group (PUG) on Tuesday 1:00 - 3:00
• Office hours on Mondays from 2:00 to 3:00
• Digital Fellows site
  Workshop schedule TBA

Intro to project management

• A good roundup of links from UVA Scholars Lab
• Bethany Nowviskie, "Ten Rules for Humanities Scholars New to Project Management" (pdf)
• Storti and Lestock, "Project Management From Start to Finish"
• Elijah Meeks, "How Collaboration Works and How it Can Fail"
• For those who are really hardcore, it may be useful to think about what elements of the Cornell Project Management Methdology can be translated from industry to academia.

Events

Spring workshop series coordinated by the GC fellows should be announced soon. Check back on the events page soon.

From February 8-12, events will be held around the city for NYCDH Week. Please attend at least one of these events, be it a workshop, or one of the panels or lightning talks on February 9.

Resources

As you are preparing your elevator pitches to share with the class in Week 2, the following resources can be useful in thinking about how to describe the technical specificities of your project.

• Alan Liu's huge DH resources page
• Miriam Posner, How Did They Make That