A picture of the original Omeka staff: (Front, L to R) Sheila Brennan, Sharon Leon, Jim Safley; (Back, L to R) Dave Lester, Ken Albers, Jeremy Boggs, Tom Scheinfeldt, Kris Kelly.
The Omeka team held "playdates" in 2009 and 2010 which were a type of workshop that taught participants how to use the platform. The Omeka team also sought targeted feedback on the code development, user interface design, user experience, and use case scenarios for digital humanities and digital cultural heritage projects.
The playdates scheduled the day before THATCamp were popular, and inspired others to run workshops that become THATCamp Bootcamps.
CHNM staff go to Washington D.C. to take pictures of memorials for an education project. They noticed George Mason near an overpass. He wasn't doing much, so they said hi.