C. Titus Brown Sat, 20 Sep 2014 03:45:07 -0700 > Software Carpentry has _always_ been about teaching best practices using a > particular toolset,
... or, at least, an *open* toolset, no? My impression is, most folks on this list also advocate open-source/open-science--am I missing something? That being said, those are certainly separable concerns, I'm not aware of an SC position on those topics, and $ date ; curl http://software-carpentry.org/faq.html 2> /dev/null | fgrep -ie 'open' | wc -l > Sat Sep 20 11:30:36 EDT 2014 > 0 Nevertheless, for those who advocate SC-ing Excel (e.g., showing how to VC it, integrating it into reproducibility frameworks, etc): why not, instead, try SC-ing an *open-source* spreadsheet? There are several :-) and they interoperate well with M$. (<n=1 warning/> My department ~= wholly-owned subsidiary of M$ (and ESRI), but I was able to do all my coursework with OpenOffice and LaTeX--still learning how to replace ArcGIS.) FWIW, I suspect spreadsheets are reproducibility-resistant, but ICBW. > Haters gonna hate. Alternatively: the cost of attempting to please every member of an audience increases non-linearly with audience size, hence is usually unsupportable past a fairly small size. So why try? Better instead, to paraphrase the temperance orator JB Gough: stand for the Open and the Reproducible! though every man's finger be pointed at you, and every woman's lips be curled in scorn. (As long as they're not grantmakers :-) FWIW, Tom Roche <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
