Comments on: THATCamp Hierarchy 2014? http://leadership2013.thatcamp.org/2013/09/23/thatcamp-hierarchy-2014/ The Humanities and Technology Camp Wed, 16 Oct 2013 21:22:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 By: Defining and Developing the Skills Important to Digital Scholarship | THATCamp Leadership 2013 http://leadership2013.thatcamp.org/2013/09/23/thatcamp-hierarchy-2014/#comment-135 Wed, 09 Oct 2013 16:00:35 +0000 http://leadership2013.thatcamp.org/?p=181#comment-135 […] of experience to hone their skills over a longer period of time than a day or a day and a half. (Ryan also points to the need to go beyond 101 in some THATCamp sessions.) Could we imagine new variants […]

]]> By: Amanda French http://leadership2013.thatcamp.org/2013/09/23/thatcamp-hierarchy-2014/#comment-59 Wed, 02 Oct 2013 19:30:00 +0000 http://leadership2013.thatcamp.org/?p=181#comment-59 Been meaning to comment on this, Ryan — sorry to be a laggard. You’re completely right that those of us who’ve been to lots of THATCamps will notice that some of the same conversations happen again and again, but the other thing I notice (more from stats than experience) is that most people at a THATCamp have never been to a THATCamp. At some point I decided that that was more important than anything else: even if THATCamp has peaked, or if it will eventually once the novelty wears off, I think it will have done its job if it shows everyone the importance of salting their regular conference with “unnish” aspects. THATCamp Leadership will itself have a significant proportion of people who’ve never been to a THATCamp, so we can certainly bounce this off them.

But yes: I played around once with putting some kind of beginner / intermediate / advanced category in the thatcamp.org network — might be time to revisit that. I will also say that the Maker Challenge at THATCamp Prime in June was a major revitalizer, I thought …

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