Editing CommunityData:Jargon


''This page contains jargon and common shorthand used within the team and perhaps more broadly.''

'''APSA''' - '''American Political Science Association'''

'''ASA''' - '''American Sociological Association''' or, more typically, its [http://www.asanet.org/annual-meeting-2018 annual meeting] held each year; less commonly, the '''American Statistical Association'''

'''CHI''' - (pronounced 'kai' not 'chee'). The Conference on Human Computer Interaction (CHI stands for Computer-Human Interaction). A division of the ACM (Association of Computing Machinery). [https://chi2017.acm.org/ 2017 Conference] 

'''CSCW''' - (pronounced as quickly as possible). The Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. A division of the ACM (Association of Computing Machinery). [https://cscw.acm.org Overview]

'''DIS''' - Not only an insult in the 90s. Designing Interactive Systems. Operated by ACM CHI. [http://dis2018.org/ 2018 Conference]

'''foo''' (alternately, '''bar''') -- an oldskool computer nerd way of talking about 'whatever you named the thing'

'''global meeting''' -- all CDSC members meeting

'''local meeting''' -- campus-specific meetings

'''IC2S2''' - [https://ic2s2.org/ The International Conference on Computational Social Science]

'''jitsi''' - (pronounced 'JIT-see'). An online meetings platform similar to Google Hangout. [https://jitsi.org/ Jitsi Project Site]

'''1AC''' - First Associate Chair. Boss of the review of an article. (Used in CHI, CSCW)

'''2AC''' - Second Associate Chair. Backup to the boss of the review of an article. (Used in CHI, CSCW, elsewhere)

=== Computers ===

'''Hyak'''  - (pronounced 'Hi-yak'). Supercomputer at UW. See [[hyak]].

'''Nada''' - Another computer at UW mainly for interacting with the Internet.  

'''Asha''' - Another computer at UW mainly for working with Scratch data. 

== Things that used to be on the above list but are not so important ==
'''guix''' - (pronounced 'geeks'). [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Guix GNU Package Manager], for team use on hyak.