We've been using a WordPress blog (at
http://teaching.software-carpentry.org) to manage the online instructor
training course for the last two years. I'd like to switch to a GitHub
Pages blog, and thanks to some heavy lifting from Andrea Bedini and
Pauline Barmby, we've moved the content over: see
http://swcarpentry.github.io/training-course/.
But there are a couple of issues:
1. We don't want people to have to master Git right at the start of the
training course - they should be able to drive it by the time they're
done, but it will be a barrier to entry if we put it at the beginning.
2. The repo is very large: slightly over 1.1 GByte when checked out,
thanks primarily to image files. People complained about the size of
the 'bc' repo when it was a tenth as big...
Using a separate repository for each future run of the training course
will solve #2. #1 is the bigger problem. I thought the solution would
be for people to create and edit pages using GitHub's browser interface
(https://github.com/blog/1327-creating-files-on-github), but I
discovered last night that there doesn't appear to be a way to upload
images through the web interface, which will make things like the
concept map exercise difficult.
So:
1. Is there a way to upload images to GitHub through the browser, rather
than add/commit/push ?
2. If not, could I have half a dozen volunteers to give some
over-the-web one-to-one coaching to Git novices who are starting
instructor training next week? They'll need the coaching between Feb 5
and Feb 11.
As always, if there's a better option that I've missed, I'd be grateful
for pointers.
thanks,
Greg
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Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org
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