Comments on: DH centers as hackerspaces http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/05/19/dh-centers-as-hackerspaces/ The Humanities and Technology Camp Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:52:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 By: THATCamp 2010 » Blog Archive http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/05/19/dh-centers-as-hackerspaces/#comment-236 Fri, 21 May 2010 09:06:43 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=449#comment-236 […] I’d like to take the question one step further than Dave Lester does when he asks in his THATCamp post, “What if digital humanities centers were more like hackerspaces?” I’d like to […]

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By: ethan.watrall http://chnm2010.thatcamp.org/05/19/dh-centers-as-hackerspaces/#comment-235 Thu, 20 May 2010 02:01:29 +0000 http://thatcamp.org/?p=449#comment-235 I love this idea…but am concerned about its practicality. Whether we like it or not, the grant-funded model is (arguably) how things work (and will continue to work) in universities. How would you justify such a space to university admin? What about a hackerspace ethos inside of a traditional DH center…such as a lab (which both exists within the infrastructure of a center and therefor is palatable to university admin, and is somewhat self contained)?

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