DHTech has been an ADHO Special Interest Group since 2021. For the upcoming two-year term (2024-2025), four seats on the Steering Committee need to be filled. Any member of DHTech is eligible to nominate themselves for one of the spots. Should we have more than four nomination, there will be an election. To give people …

In November of last year, DHTech held our first hackathon. I wasn’t sure what to expect from it, but I was excited at the prospect of working on something with other members in the community and creating something together. I’ve participated in hackathons before; I’ve even participated in some in-person hackathons, …

Our December meetup was focussed on discussing the Python-based Django framework, since we knew a number of members of the community use it for their projects and others might be interested in either using the framework or adapting approaches and ideas from it for their own work. The meetup was attended by seven people …

DHTech has been an ADHO Special Interest Group for over a year now. This November we are planning to hold the first official Steering Committee elections. Three out of the 7 Steering Committee seats will be up for election. To give people an idea of what it involves to be on the Steering Committee, this blog post will …

We want to thank Moritz Mähr and Diego Siqueira for agreeing to become the official maintainers of our Awesome DHtools repository. For the last few months they have steadily improved and added to the list. We are grateful that the list is in such capable hands! If you have anything that you think is missing from the …

The Code Review Working Group of DHTech is starting the alpha phase of implementing a code review process for the digital humanities. For the initial round of reviews, we are looking for people willing to submit code for review and people willing to review someone else’s code. If you are willing to participate, we will …

Moritz Mähr kindly offered to merge his external Digital History link list with our admittedly outdated awesome-dhtools list. He also included Github actions to make the list a member of the awesome lists ecosystem. The much improved list can now be accessed at dh-tech.github.io/awesome-dhtools/ You can help us grow …

The SIG activities that were discussed include the new mentorship program, which will offer a long term, low frequency partnership between members working on various DH topics; and a community code review initiative, which aims to improve the code quality of DH projects. Attendees introduced themselves and shared some …

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