Author Archives: Amanda Hickman

You might want to know about … SSH

A number of you have been asking questions about running on your Reclaim server directly. The tool you need for that is SSH, or Secure Shell. I used to have a great SSH tip sheet but it has been removed from the internet. We can talk about that later. In the meantime, I cobbled together a not-half-bad recap of my original tip sheet.

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We have a DocumentCloud account set up now, so if you’d like me to add you to it, let me know what address to use. I definitely want the Digital HUAC folks to explore the tool, but if anyone else is interested in trying it out, by all means let me know.

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Folks,

Just a reminder to pretty please use your project tags when you post updates here.

Thanks,
Amanda

Project Plan Template

Post to the blog Sunday by midnight; tag with “project plan”

  • Team Members and roles
  • Abstract (250 words)
  • Very brief environmental scan (300-500 words)
    • what problem does this solve?
    • what lacuna does it fill?
    • what similar projects are there?
  • What technologies will be used?
    • which of these are known?
    • which need to be learned?
    • what’s plan to learn them? what support needed?
  • How will the project be managed? (GC Redmine available to our class?)
  • Milestones (including dates of deliverables)