Grant-writing workshop
The DHIB will host a grant-writing workshop led by Carole Ann Fabian on Monday, June 1st, from 9:30 to 1:00 pm in Clemens 120. RSVP to DHIB-info@buffalo.edu by Friday May 29th.Funding opportunity
Applications are invited for digital project funding from the DHIB. Guidelines available on our wiki.Lecture on Open Source
On January 29th, the DHIB will welcome Louis Suárez-Potts to campus where he will present a lecture entitled The what, why and how (not to mention who) of Open Source -- and why it is important. Suárez-Potts is "community manager" at Sun Microsystems for the open-source project OpenOffice.org, where he manages community and product development strategy. The lead and co-lead of several projects and the primary spokesperson and representative of OpenOffice.org, Suárez-Potts also represents the project regarding OpenDocument format (ODF) matters, and is on the OASIS ODF Adoption Technical Committee and is a member of the ODF Alliance. He speaks frequently on the ODF, OpenOffice.org, education and open source, and community development throughout the world. Suárez-Potts is currently working on several articles regarding open source development and education.Over the past decade or so, he has written articles and given interviews on the topic of open source computing, community building, and cultural studies. From 1995-1999, he was editor and researcher with the Mark Twain Project, where he documented many of Mark Twain's more than 15,000 signature letters and manuscripts, producing finding aids and informational guides to be used both by the editors and visiting scholars, and helped to research and curate exhibitions of Twain's work and to initiate a program presenting lectures on Twain to professional and nonprofessional audiences. Suárez-Potts lives in Toronto and received his PhD from U.C. Berkeley.
The lecture will take place on Thursday January 29th at 2:00 pm in Clemens 120.
DHIB Inaugural Symposium
On September 19th, the College of Arts and Sciences held an inaugural symposium to mark the opening of the Digital Humanities Initiative at Buffalo (see News for details). Video of the keynote address and the slide show from the reception are available there too.
