Week 12 Dig: The exhibit

Presentation — your complete excavation presented as a museum exhibit, for an audience who has never seen the codebase.

10 May 2027

Before the dig

Prepare your exhibit. Structure:

The site: what the project was, who built it, when it was active
The excavation: your stratigraphic timeline, inscriptions analysis, tool inventory, architecture diagram, documentation audit
The diagnosis: cause of death, supported by evidence
The ethics: should it be revived? Your position and your reasoning
The restoration: what you brought back, what you changed, what you left alone

The presentation is 10 minutes. The written companion is 2000 words. Both are due at the end of this week.

Present your exhibit. The audience asks questions — about your methods, your evidence, your ethical choices, and your restoration decisions.

The best exhibits make the audience care about a codebase they have never seen and will never use.

Submit the written companion alongside your presentation materials. This is the final assessment.

What you bring to the session. Written so a reader can tell whether it has been met without asking you.

your exhibit tells the story of one codebase from construction to abandonment to partial restoration
an audience member who has never seen the repo can follow the narrative
you can answer questions about your methods, your evidence, and your ethical choices