We’re at the point in our coverage of the recent the two recent THATCamps—Prime and LAC—that I don’t even have any good jokes to lead off with. George has provided you with links to many of the different collaborative documents that were created at the two camps, as well as personal reflections on what took place. Mark reported on the session that he led on building a better backchannel. And Heather provided the valuable perspective of a non-humanist attending her first THATCamp.

One of the things that I love about a THATCamp is the call to have more hack and less yak. You’re encouraged to come out of sessions having done or made something concrete. In some cases, what you make might be a list of ways to improve a backchannel or a collaboratively written set of notes about project management. In other cases, you might finish a session having built a WordPress theme from scratch. …

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