June PH Technical Team Call

[mdlincoln]

The votes are in - we will call on Thursday, June 27th. Time for the call is 9:00 AM - Mexico time; 10:00 AM - EST; 3:00 PM - British time; 4:00 PM - CET time.

Team homework:

• [ ] Read PH's Jekyll lesson
• [ ] make sure you are able to install and run jekyll on your own computer.
• [ ] Pick one lesson and one infrastructure page (e.g. https://programminghistorian.org/en/research) and compare the HTML source for those pages to the original markdown files. See if you can trace which _layout and _template files are used to render that page, and which template tags ({{ }}) are used to create the HTML

[amsichani]

This might sound silly but I need to say it: I m glad our tech team (following our main team's ethos) manages to respect gender balance and to support women representation in technical/programming roles - fighting this good fight (together with the DH community in general) against the "brogrammer" stereotype and culture.

[acrymble]

@mdlincoln can we get confirmation of who is on this team?

[spapastamkou]

I will follow this, @acrymble.

[mdlincoln]

team members as best I understand it (and anyone, please correct me if I'm wrong!)

• myself
• @amsichani
• @spapastamkou
• @ZoeLeBlanc
• @mariajoafana
• @jenniferisasi
• @arojascastro
• @walshbr

Others who have asked not to be on the formal team but wanted to sit in on this first call

• @drjwbaker

[amsichani]

how about @jenniferisasi ?

[jenniferisasi]

how about @jenniferisasi ?

He forgot about me :'( (no worries @mdlincoln) I have technically been in the team a few months already and I have tried to make 'technical' changes whenever I was able to or troubleshoot Travis when possible. I think though @mariajoafana won't be part of the team because she's planning on taking a sabbatical in July #1279

If you have some extra time, I recommend building your own jekyll site too - I am building my personal website that way and it is helping me a lot in learning how everything works together (did a little bit of html and css and even Ruby in the past but not much)

[arojascastro]

I'd like to be part of the technical team as well if possible :)

[amsichani]

Thanks for the HW @mdlincoln ;-) may I add a couple of things we are expecting from your part:

• [ ] add us to the Slack channel for PH notifications
• [ ] create a new Slack channel for PH tech team day2day comms
• [ ] create a GitHub tech team handle

[walshbr]

I can see myself contributing here if it's useful @mdlincoln. I didn't immediately sign up for it b/c the meeting time had been set by the time I got off sabbatical. Also just trying to be mindful of how much stuff I'm signing up for. But I've helped out with troubleshooting some of the travis PRs in the past, so seems to make sense. If you'll loop me in and have me as a latecomer, that is.

[drjwbaker]

Did you set a date/time for a June call?

[jenniferisasi]

@drjwbaker we didn't

[mdlincoln]

The votes are in - we will call on Thursday, June 27th. Time for the call is 9:00 AM - Mexico time; 10:00 AM - EST; 3:00 PM - British time; 4:00 PM - CET time.

[walshbr]

Sounds good - I'll be there.

[arojascastro]

Sorry I just moved to Berlin, and I am still getting adapted and looking for a flat. I think I'll drop my name from the technical team. I can join you in the future perhaps. Thank you.

[drjwbaker]

Sorry, not going to be able to make this. I'll do my homework though 😁

[mdlincoln]

Hi @programminghistorian/technical-team, just a reminder to please do your homework tasks ahead of our call this Thursday!

[drjwbaker]

Did my homework. Still not sure I like GH Desktop though..

[mdlincoln]

@drjwbaker I mean, I always recommend the command line 🤣

[amsichani]

HW done - me too still struggling with the GH desktop (it might be just a matter of time though )

[spapastamkou]

I did not do my homework (sorry!), but I am ok with GH desktop. Can I follow silently?

[acrymble]

It would be nice to know what you did. I see a lot of pull requests!