One Week | One Tool:Ultra-rapid open source development among strangers

Scott HanrathUniversity of Kansas Librariescode4lib 2011

photo by Patrick Murray-John: http://www.flickr.com/photos/11597705@N00/5117785299/

One Week | One Tool

“produce something useful for humanities work and to help balance learning and doing in digital humanities training”

- oneweekonetool.org

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What to build?

photo by mytimemachine: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21585925@N07/2207795421/

Criteria

• Use

• Low Walls, High Ceilings

• Feasibility

photo by Effie Kapsalis: http://www.flickr.com/photos/digitaleffie/4846074833/

Blog to

Book

The Teams

• Outreach

• User Experience

• Development

photo by Patrick Murray-John: http://www.flickr.com/photos/11597705@N00/5117785299/

photo by Effie Kapsalis: http://www.flickr.com/photos/digitaleffie/4846063437/

photo by J. Stephen Conn: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jstephenconn/3657849641/

Parallel Development

Adaptability

• Consensus

• Roles

photo by gwire: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gwire/336458831/

More…

• Code– github.com/chnm/anthologize

• Info– anthologize.org– oneweekonetool.org

• Gab– @anthologize– groups.google.com/group/anthologize-dev– groups.google.com/group/anthologize-users

Thanks!

Scott HanrathUniversity of Kansas Libraries

shanrath@ku.edu@rshanrath