I resonate strongly with this "Why I Avoid Slack" article from Matthew Rocklin, who has a pretty good track record of fostering open source community:
https://matthewrocklin.com/blog/2019/02/28/slack-github I think an email archive also has good affordances, especially for putting together a curriculum vs. a software project. But I'll try to keep up with whatever the broader group wants to do. D On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 8:50 AM Deborah Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe good to have a Slack channel in the Carpentries Slack account? > Deb > > On 2019-07-22 11:40 AM, Dav Clark wrote: > > So it seems maybe there is no working group. Shall we make something to > keep communication organized? Or just use this thread? > > D > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2019, 8:28 AM Shoaib Ahmed Sufi < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I just thought I would mentioned this course - >> https://www.fast.ai/2019/07/08/fastai-nlp/ >> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.fast.ai_2019_07_08_fastai-2Dnlp_&d=DwMFaQ&c=HPMtquzZjKY31rtkyGRFnQ&r=ODXYRdWm1Oqf5-w5G2NjQw&m=mBY1InSFuM2T90uBu7clAWnqg5FfmYzxVYajXsG7Wvk&s=xOGyd9Ue0EwjGwgB5bJJ8DAM1SKeQdpenfBwDx3qi3A&e=> >> that >> might be a useful ‘extra reading’ or data point for your preparation - I am >> not an Natural Language Processing person but I heard this course being >> mentioned and lauded recently. >> >> Best >> Shoaib >> >> On 19 Jul 2019, at 17:10, [email protected] wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> just to let you know ... I'm planning to prepare a carpentries style >> course on text mining... which is a type of NLP (i.e. Natural Language >> Processing). :-) >> >> Bea Alex (Edinburgh) >> >> >> > -- > -- Upcoming iDigBio Events https://www.idigbio.org/calendar > -- Deborah Paul, iDigBio Digitization and Workforce Development Manager > iDigBio -- Steering Committee Member > SPNHC Liaison, Member-At-Large and Member International Relations Committee > SYNTHESYS3 Representative, ICEDIG External Advisory Board Member > Vice Chair, Biodiversity Information Standards Organisation (TDWG)(2019-2020) > Institute for Digital Information, 234 LSB > Florida State University > Tallahassee, Florida 32306 > 850-644-6366 > > *The Carpentries <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/latest>* / discuss / > see discussions <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss> + > participants <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/members> + > delivery > options <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription> > Permalink > <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Tee8f460df4206334-Mead6981db10ead3f14bc4423> > ------------------------------------------ The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Tee8f460df4206334-Mda2af3a7783cc0f6f536ee09 Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
