THATCamp | Amanda French | Activity https://thatcamp.org/people/amandafrench/activity/ Activity feed for Amanda French. Wed, 19 Feb 2020 15:54:33 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=5.1.2 en 30 hourly 2 b7a3634c69b671e4de4cbcc2ce267a2a-en Amanda French wrote a new post, Announcing THATCamp retrospective and sunsetting, on the site THATCamp http://thatcamp.org/?p=7895 Mon, 03 Feb 2020 14:13:42 +0000 (Cross-posted from http://retrospective.thatcamp.org/2020/01/31/announcing-thatcamp-retrospective-and-sunsetting/ )


The first THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp) was held at the Center for […]

]]> f1c1ed21482cd888dc7fffb229c3ca17-en Amanda French wrote a new post, Announcing THATCamp retrospective and sunsetting, on the site THATCamp Retrospective http://retrospective.thatcamp.org/?p=277 Fri, 31 Jan 2020 23:03:01 +0000
The first THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp) was held at the Center for History and New Media (now the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media) at George Mason University in the summer […]

]]> 231411720b830f456bc5207b96b0bb83-en Amanda French wrote a new post, Contribute to the THATCamp retrospective, on the site THATCamp Retrospective http://reflections.thatcamp.org/?p=152 Tue, 28 Jan 2020 21:03:36 +0000 This is a site where you can share memories, critiques, epiphanies, comments about THATCamp — read more about the project here. If you would like to contribute, please register for this site using the form below. […]

]]> 43146a5a849bc9e68cbdcc5e430227df-en Amanda French started the topic User registration disabled on main THATCamp site in the forum Technical issues http://thatcamp.org/forums/topic/user-registration-disabled-on-main-thatcamp-site/ Tue, 23 Jul 2019 15:42:15 +0000 Hi all — this shouldn’t affect you at all if you are a legitimate user, but today I disabled user registration on the main THATCamp site at thatcamp.org because of a recent spate of spam user registration and spam forum posts. If you want to attend a THATCamp, you can still register through that camp’s subsite (such as…[Read more]

]]> 2aab85f01a7dfaf2ee578f38db34debb-en Amanda French started the topic THATCamp network moved to new server today in the forum Technical issues http://thatcamp.org/forums/topic/thatcamp-network-moved-to-new-server-today/ Tue, 22 Jan 2019 15:30:33 +0000 Hi all! Please note that we have moved the THATCamp website network to a new server today, and we might run into some issues. We’ll test and troubleshoot throughout the day. If you discover any problems, let us know by posting a reply to this forum thread or emailing “info at thatcamp dot org”.

]]> 53f00025b79fa656f90c67214b722602-en Amanda French replied to the topic Can't edit profile though I'm logged in in the forum Technical issues http://thatcamp.org/forums/topic/cant-edit-profile-though-im-logged-in/page/2/#post-6534 Tue, 15 Jan 2019 20:12:22 +0000 Hi Laura — sorry for delay! I’ve upgraded your permissions as well, which should enable you to edit your profile. Note that while this issue is fixed for new users (anyone who registers from now on) and for most old users (anyone who registered before a certain date), there is a percentage of users who still have the wrong permissions. Long story…[Read more]

]]> 28b8a8f2006456d3cc988c024b17d3db-en Amanda French replied to the topic URL, not site title is showing on main thatCamp page- change? in the forum Technical issues http://thatcamp.org/forums/topic/url-not-site-title-is-showing-on-main-thatcamp-page-change/#post-5817 Mon, 25 Jun 2018 15:47:12 +0000 Hi Kristen, that option is in the Dashboard in THATCamp Setup. I changed it for you, and it’s reflected on the home page. If you still see the old date, that might be a caching issue — do a hard reload of the page and you should see the correct date.

]]> be538ca36a88a07ce666cd7f7bda7e94-en Amanda French replied to the topic Campers not showing 2 in the forum Technical issues http://thatcamp.org/forums/topic/campers-not-showing-2/#post-5814 Thu, 21 Jun 2018 20:23:56 +0000 Hi Erika — in your case it was simply that the Campers page wasn’t using the Campers page template for some reason, so I set it and it’s fine now. http://midwest2018.thatcamp.org/campers/ There are instructions about that at http://thatcamp.org/help/organize/website/

It is supposed to use that template by default, though, so I’ll check to make…[Read more]

]]> 7e6e21daf737cac93f5787e572cd4338-en Amanda French replied to the topic Campers not showing 2 in the forum Technical issues http://thatcamp.org/forums/topic/campers-not-showing-2/#post-5798 Fri, 01 Jun 2018 15:35:37 +0000 Hi Geraldine,

Sorry for my delay in replying! I was away on vacation. Everything looks fine to me now: you’ve got 17 users and 17 people on your Campers page at http://ugainvalence2018.thatcamp.org/campers/ , including Anirban and Genoveva. I did also fix an issue with your avatar while I was at it. Let me know if you need anything else.

Amanda

]]> 0358a98621de06a914514d6d13ad9fb3-en Amanda French replied to the topic Spam From Camper to other Campers Email? in the forum Technical issues http://thatcamp.org/forums/topic/spam-from-camper-to-other-campers-email/#post-5700 Fri, 09 Mar 2018 16:55:57 +0000 I’ve found the offending user and have removed them. Sorry about that: we do get quite a few spam users but they usually don’t message people like that. Let me know if you get more!

]]> e7ad27b4d6e8ac56b62d5174e9fb5cd9-en Amanda French replied to the topic Spam From Camper to other Campers Email? in the forum Technical issues http://thatcamp.org/forums/topic/spam-from-camper-to-other-campers-email/#post-5699 Fri, 09 Mar 2018 16:28:14 +0000 Yes, I see! Worrisome. Let me find the offender and remove them.

]]> 4649391c4ce31afac806d5e35904abae-en Amanda French replied to the topic Registrations going missing in the forum Technical issues http://thatcamp.org/forums/topic/registrations-going-missing/#post-5694 Tue, 06 Mar 2018 21:01:25 +0000 By the way, regarding the issue that began this thread, I looked through my email and it looks like we never figured out what was going on there. But do note that although it’s not a perfect solution you can add users to your site manually — see instructions near the bottom of the Help page http://thatcamp.org/help/organize/registrations/…[Read more]

]]> 79a7c0e4040860a58a58b5aa43371254-en Amanda French replied to the topic Registrations going missing in the forum Technical issues http://thatcamp.org/forums/topic/registrations-going-missing/#post-5693 Tue, 06 Mar 2018 20:44:53 +0000 Hi Kristen, this is for THATCamp Marshall 2018 at http://marshall2018.thatcamp.org/, correct? Not THATCamp Ohio 2018 in September?

You’ve got 29 approved registrations on THATCamp Marshall 2018, and they’ve all got active user accounts, so everything looks normal. When you say they “didn’t go through,” do you mean that the registrant didn’t get…[Read more]

]]> 3aac5f71632525f83cd67bddf2988344-en Amanda French replied to the topic remove THATCamp? in the forum Technical issues http://thatcamp.org/forums/topic/remove-thatcamp/#post-5691 Mon, 26 Feb 2018 16:14:46 +0000 Hi Kristen,

So sorry for the delay in replying! I tested this to see if deleting a THATCamp also deletes the admin user. And the answer is no: it doesn’t. Your user account will still exist, and it will allow you to log in to the main THATCamp site here and to any other THATCamps you’re a member of. So, as you doubtless saw, you go to Tools –>…[Read more]

]]> edfddc5cebf6af406e8d87a2bedb4d0f-en Amanda French wrote a new post, Notes from Teaching DH breakout group, on the site THATCamp AHA 2018 http://aha2018.thatcamp.org/?p=291 Thu, 04 Jan 2018 18:49:14 +0000 THATCamp AHA 2018

Session 2 – Teaching DH breakout group – professional development for scholars & researchers

Questions:

What are models that have worked for scaling up/building capacity in a […]

]]> fb8df28f9cb1aa67a104648ef70d0437-en Amanda French wrote a new post, Evaluate THATCamp AHA, on the site THATCamp AHA 2018 http://aha2018.thatcamp.org/?p=285 Wed, 03 Jan 2018 21:31:19 +0000 Thanks for coming to THATCamp! Please add your thoughts about how it went and especially if you’d ike there to be future THATCamp AHAs at the link below.

]]> ac6e095503c9f187fd52e754c8afc58f-en Amanda French wrote a new post, THATCamp AHA logistics, on the site THATCamp AHA 2018 http://aha2018.thatcamp.org/?p=224 Tue, 02 Jan 2018 17:41:53 +0000 Just some reminders about THATCamp AHA tomorrow:

We’ll be starting with coffee and mingling at 8:15am on Wednesday, January 3rd, just before AHA itself, at Funger Hall, 2201 G Street NW, Washington, DC. Travel […]

]]> 4b11b0c656dee6c1a193cf4d08c8b544-en Amanda French wrote a new post, Session Proposal: Intro to Scalar, on the site THATCamp AHA 2018 http://aha2018.thatcamp.org/?p=196 Sat, 23 Dec 2017 16:26:47 +0000 I’ve taught many Omeka and Wordpress workshops at THATCamps, and am happy to do so again if there’s interest. One thing I’ve taught less often but still a few times is Scalar, found at http://scalar.usc.edu, […]

]]> ff9003bd3367f9bd2ae943ea8cad1607-en Amanda French replied to the topic URL, not site title is showing on main thatCamp page- change? in the forum Technical issues http://thatcamp.org/forums/topic/url-not-site-title-is-showing-on-main-thatcamp-page-change/#post-5588 Wed, 06 Dec 2017 19:06:39 +0000 Hi Kristen — yes, I cleared the cache and it updated. Have a good THATCamp!

Amanda

]]> 3efd8084138f7a62fea1bd026c361390-en Amanda French replied to the topic send email to all users? in the forum Technical issues http://thatcamp.org/forums/topic/send-email-to-all-users/#post-5548 Tue, 25 Apr 2017 21:20:37 +0000 Looks like I fixed it through the classic method: turning it off and turning it back on again. 🙂 You should have the Email Users option now, Lisa. Thanks for bringing it to our attention!

]]> 198dfc8cf8068024b8bafa2d78c69e52-en Amanda French replied to the topic send email to all users? in the forum Technical issues http://thatcamp.org/forums/topic/send-email-to-all-users/#post-5546 Tue, 25 Apr 2017 21:14:23 +0000 I suspect there might be a plugin conflict or a server setting that is preventing you from accessing that feature, Lisa. It might take me awhile to resolve, if at all. Meanwhile, my test user (which is an admin on the http://ucincinnati2017.thatcamp.org/ like you) DOES have the Users –> Export to CSV option, so I’ll ask you to use that for now.…[Read more]

]]> 5e1897cd32b4c98b825ac36016174113-en Amanda French replied to the topic send email to all users? in the forum Technical issues http://thatcamp.org/forums/topic/send-email-to-all-users/#post-5544 Tue, 25 Apr 2017 21:01:27 +0000 That’s weird, Lisa — that plugin should be activated on all the sites by default, and since you have the settings, sounds like it is actually activated. Let me check into it.

]]> e0f8f6edcf8c54ad6ab6449bf518f8f9-en Amanda French replied to the topic send email to all users? in the forum Technical issues http://thatcamp.org/forums/topic/send-email-to-all-users/#post-5542 Tue, 25 Apr 2017 15:36:21 +0000 I should add that you can also choose Users –> Export to CSV and get a spreadsheet of all user information, including their email addresses. From there you could put the addresses into an email program, though I’ve found it’s best to do it in batches of 30 or so.

]]> 2cf7bf2898a0db3dfd9da41ec63a35e0-en Amanda French replied to the topic send email to all users? in the forum Technical issues http://thatcamp.org/forums/topic/send-email-to-all-users/#post-5540 Tue, 25 Apr 2017 15:32:13 +0000 Yes, indeed. If you’re an administrator and log in to your site, you should see an option called “Email Users” in the sidebar, a couple of options below Settings. Click that, and you’ll have the option to email a group. See screenshot at https://www.dropbox.com/s/jcsds6x9d433wbc/Screenshot%202017-04-25%2011.29.41.png?dl=0

]]> e1679778a946477d1c994515fe8ebbb7-en Amanda French replied to the topic send email to all users? in the forum Technical issues http://thatcamp.org/forums/topic/send-email-to-all-users/#post-5540 Tue, 25 Apr 2017 15:32:13 +0000 Yes, indeed. If you’re an administrator and log in to your site, you should see an option called “Email Users” in the sidebar, a couple of options below Settings. Click that, and you’ll have the option to email a group. See screenshot at Screenshot of Email Users

]]> 4a64fcf83c36764b8a520f5c24c6206c-en Amanda French replied to the topic Registration: need 3 days listed in drop down in the forum Technical issues http://thatcamp.org/forums/topic/registration-need-3-days-listed-in-drop-down/#post-5532 Mon, 10 Apr 2017 20:33:30 +0000 Hi Lisa,

Well, not easily — those options are coded in to a custom plugin. But let me take a look; I think I can do it.

Amanda

]]> aaa27a6f73fe48a99c739ed10adab99b-en Amanda French wrote a new post, Session Proposals and Notes, on the site THATCamp DC 2017 http://dc2017.thatcamp.org/?p=256 Thu, 23 Mar 2017 14:24:54 +0000 Suggest topics here by logging in and going to Posts — Add New: what you suggest will appear below. Or just bring your ideas on Saturday. We’ll give you paper and markers to propose an idea and put it on the big […]

]]> 51948b11e231f65188330d7f48fa46ee-en Amanda French replied to the topic Can't edit profile though I'm logged in in the forum Technical issues http://thatcamp.org/forums/topic/cant-edit-profile-though-im-logged-in/page/2/#post-5529 Fri, 03 Mar 2017 19:09:28 +0000 I have upgraded your role on thatcamp.org to “Subscriber” from “Participant,” Chelcie — looks like we might be having a recurrence of the issue where new users aren’t being granted sufficient privileges. I’ll see what I can do.

]]> 4a4ccbf94984f8f7730fa91753d31b43-en Amanda French replied to the topic Unable to post in the forum Technical issues http://thatcamp.org/forums/topic/unable-to-post/#post-5525 Tue, 28 Feb 2017 21:39:28 +0000 Hi Carolyn,

You weren’t a user on the http://florida2017.thatcamp.org site (maybe you registered on site instead of through the website?) but I went ahead and added you as an author to the site, so you should be able to add your notes now.

Cheers,

Amanda

]]> 86a7d479c1d25e99de7ac9a8542f01be-en Amanda French replied to the topic Can't edit profile though I'm logged in in the forum Technical issues http://thatcamp.org/forums/topic/cant-edit-profile-though-im-logged-in/page/2/#post-5523 Mon, 06 Feb 2017 16:49:50 +0000 Hi Natalie,

Oh sure, I still hang out and do this kind of thing when I can. Glad to hear it’s fixed. For future visitors to the thread, this issue used to happen when someone registers through the main site (thatcamp.org) and then wasn’t attached to any particular “subsite” such as newngland2017.thatcamp.org. It should now be the case that…[Read more]

]]> cf1a024c053d19dec4bb3bb7b45dd786-en Amanda French replied to the topic Editing Registration Page? in the forum Technical issues http://thatcamp.org/forums/topic/editing-registration-page/#post-5516 Wed, 01 Feb 2017 18:11:50 +0000 Okay, Jessica, I unchecked “T-shirt size” and “Children” on the THATCamp Registration form settings. There are other options you can uncheck as well if you like.

]]> 7a60d4d0abad73224b709067d4701e13-en Amanda French replied to the topic Editing Registration Page? in the forum Technical issues http://thatcamp.org/forums/topic/editing-registration-page/#post-5516 Wed, 01 Feb 2017 18:11:50 +0000 Okay, Jessica, I unchecked “T-shirt size” and “Children” on the THATCamp Registration form settings. There are other options you can uncheck as well if you like. THATCamp Registration Options

]]> a873a63aeea2ab9c2f6c742b2a43cf0e-en Amanda French replied to the topic Editing Registration Page? in the forum Technical issues http://thatcamp.org/forums/topic/editing-registration-page/#post-5516 Wed, 01 Feb 2017 18:11:50 +0000 Okay, Jessica, I unchecked “T-shirt size” and “Children” on the THATCamp Registration form settings. There are other options you can uncheck as well if you like. THATCamp Registration Options

]]> a873a63aeea2ab9c2f6c742b2a43cf0e-en Amanda French replied to the topic Editing Registration Page? in the forum Technical issues http://thatcamp.org/forums/topic/editing-registration-page/#post-5516 Wed, 01 Feb 2017 18:11:50 +0000 Okay, Jessica, I unchecked “T-shirt size” and “Children” on the THATCamp Registration form settings. There are other options you can uncheck as well if you like. THATCamp Registration Options

]]> a873a63aeea2ab9c2f6c742b2a43cf0e-en Amanda French replied to the topic Editing Registration Page? in the forum Technical issues http://thatcamp.org/forums/topic/editing-registration-page/#post-5516 Wed, 01 Feb 2017 18:11:50 +0000 Okay, Jessica, I unchecked “T-shirt size” and “Children” on the THATCamp Registration form settings. There are other options you can uncheck as well if you like. THATCamp Registration Options

]]> 3eb80464cd7a5345dfc33a9b73e2381a-en Amanda French replied to the topic Editing Registration Page? in the forum Technical issues http://thatcamp.org/forums/topic/editing-registration-page/#post-5515 Wed, 01 Feb 2017 18:08:23 +0000 Hi Jessica,

Sorry for delayed reply! Absolutely — these are options you can uncheck in the Dashboard by going to TC Registrations –> Settings. I’ll take the liberty of going to your site now and unchecking them, which will remove them from the form.

Cheers,

Amanda

]]> 00a8fdedc7bac2f6d25a3af15359dc72-en Amanda French replied to the topic PhD Fieldwork in the forum Going to a THATCamp http://thatcamp.org/forums/topic/phd-fieldwork/#post-5512 Mon, 09 Jan 2017 15:23:35 +0000 Bonjour Monia,

A list of upcoming THATCamps appears on the home page of this site at thatcamp.org — I hope you’ll be able to find one that you can attend! Usually the organizers of each THATCamp put their own contact information on their separate website, so you can contact them about attending or asking questions.

Good luck with your research!

Amanda

]]> 44a3111a2caed59761c839117329c8e6-en Amanda French replied to the topic Problems resetting password in the forum Technical issues http://thatcamp.org/forums/topic/problems-resetting-password/#post-5490 Mon, 19 Sep 2016 20:40:04 +0000 Addendum: if any other users do encounter this problem, pasting the password reset link into Internet Explorer on a Windows machine might do the trick: neither Chrome nor Firefox seems to be able to process the iCloud address password reset token.

]]> 8d157e0cce232dcffddb4a512d639725-en Amanda French replied to the topic Problems resetting password in the forum Technical issues http://thatcamp.org/forums/topic/problems-resetting-password/#post-5490 Mon, 19 Sep 2016 20:40:04 +0000 Addendum: if any other users do encounter this problem, pasting the password reset link into a different browser *might* do the trick. One user reported that it worked, although it didn’t for me.

]]> 9cfa7782e38c15f126cd2353d98ca62d-en Amanda French replied to the topic Problems resetting password in the forum Technical issues http://thatcamp.org/forums/topic/problems-resetting-password/#post-5489 Mon, 19 Sep 2016 20:35:00 +0000 I manually reset the user in question’s password, so that part of the issue is resolved. This problem apparently only exists for icloud.com email addresses; I was able to reproduce it with an icloud email address. I thought perhaps that icloud might have been blocked as a spammer in the way yahoo email addresses are, but that doesn’t seem to be…[Read more]

]]> ae5a3d6291759ab3ee3d638b9ce3b903-en Amanda French replied to the topic Problems resetting password in the forum Technical issues http://thatcamp.org/forums/topic/problems-resetting-password/#post-5488 Mon, 19 Sep 2016 17:47:41 +0000 Hi Lisa,

Sorry to hear it! I tried resetting my own password and couldn’t reproduce the problem. If you give me the user’s name and email address, I’ll look into it. Worst comes to worst, I can manually reset it for them. You can email the info to chair at thatcamp dot org.

Cheers,

Amanda

]]> 19701bc5c408ba1a58067b0accf3260b-en Amanda French replied to the topic Spam From Camper to other Campers Email? in the forum Technical issues http://thatcamp.org/forums/topic/spam-from-camper-to-other-campers-email/#post-5482 Wed, 18 May 2016 16:29:16 +0000 Actually it was the “prisca” user I deleted due to spam, not “prisca22” — will see what I can do to block further spam from this source.

]]> 747f7482f7631492ec9543991b3d02f0-en Amanda French replied to the topic Spam From Camper to other Campers Email? in the forum Technical issues http://thatcamp.org/forums/topic/spam-from-camper-to-other-campers-email/#post-5481 Wed, 18 May 2016 16:25:45 +0000 Actually I’m way ahead of you — I deleted that user a couple of days ago when *I* got spam from them! Sorry for the inconvenience. Our spam user prevention plugins (Akismet and WangGuard especially) were working wonderfully for a time, but I’ve seen a major uptick in spam users in the last couple of months: time to try out some new ones and some…[Read more]

]]> 9252d758546710281920da7734e727fa-en Amanda French replied to the topic Can't edit profile though I'm logged in in the forum Technical issues http://thatcamp.org/forums/topic/cant-edit-profile-though-im-logged-in/#post-5477 Wed, 11 May 2016 14:17:46 +0000 Try now, Mary. Looks like you originally registered four years ago, so perhaps I missed updating your permissions when I did a bunch of people in January. Let me know if it’s not resolved.

]]> 74420100a771877600eb2082ad4c7337-en Amanda French replied to the topic Registrations going missing in the forum Technical issues http://thatcamp.org/forums/topic/registrations-going-missing/#post-5474 Tue, 03 May 2016 14:53:02 +0000 In fact the more info you can tell me about it, the better I can troubleshoot, so do please forward emails from whoever you have reporting that issue to chair@thatcamp.org. Sorry for the trouble!!

]]> 447417e52a234478372a76254ce1ce9d-en Amanda French replied to the topic Registrations going missing in the forum Technical issues http://thatcamp.org/forums/topic/registrations-going-missing/#post-5473 Tue, 03 May 2016 14:52:07 +0000 Yikes, that’s no good. Let me take a look at the actual database and see if there are any records there — can you give me a name or two of people it’s happened to? You can send them to chair@thatcamp.org if you don’t want to post them publicly.

]]> 000639281b105220256cf29fa2c3f740-en Amanda French replied to the topic edit sidebar in wordpress in the forum Organizing a THATCamp http://thatcamp.org/forums/topic/edit-sidebar-in-wordpress/#post-5470 Tue, 26 Apr 2016 20:42:12 +0000 Sure thing! The basic way is to go to Appearance –> Widgets and to drag a “Text” widget over to your sidebar. When you let it go, it will give you a place to type in a title and text. Read https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Widgets#Using_Text_Widgets for more help, and/or see the screenshots below.…[Read more]

]]> 3ea06f7ba624fb00f7e1df2e17160f31-en Amanda French replied to the topic Can't edit profile though I'm logged in in the forum Technical issues http://thatcamp.org/forums/topic/cant-edit-profile-though-im-logged-in/#post-5436 Thu, 31 Mar 2016 22:25:50 +0000 Hi Anonymous,

I updated some code on the website today, and when I test it now, logged-in users can edit their profiles properly. Can you try again? If it is still broken for you, please give me your username and I’ll investigate further.

Amanda

]]> 8d4d66305fa33ee72ea86b94f44392ff-en Amanda French replied to the topic Log in info not sent in the forum Technical issues http://thatcamp.org/forums/topic/log-in-info-not-sent/#post-5435 Thu, 31 Mar 2016 22:10:32 +0000 Hi Mia,

Thanks to some volunteer development time, new users who register for your THATCamp will now get an email with a link they can click to set their password. The issue was due to a WordPress update that broke that function in the THATCamp Registrations plugin. Read more at https://github.com/chnm/thatcamp-org/issues/124 if you like.

Let…[Read more]

]]> f5013463f231489f1f5f32ee18a00597-en Amanda French replied to the topic Log in info not sent in the forum Technical issues http://thatcamp.org/forums/topic/log-in-info-not-sent/#post-5433 Thu, 24 Mar 2016 14:14:30 +0000 By the way, it occurs to me that you could put that link in the “Accepted Registration” email in THATCamp Registrations so that it’ll be there in the email that people get when their registration is approved — I’ll go ahead and do that now, though it will only go to new, accepted registrants, not to existing users. I also put a notice on…[Read more]

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