Am I missing something, or what prevents just uploading to somewhere like 
imgur.com and using markdown to embed the image with a direct link. Sure, who 
knows about the permanence of images on imgur and the like, but is that really 
a problem for the concept map assignment?

Stephen


On Jan 29, 2015, at 10:41 AM, Timothée Poisot <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Greg, all
> 
> Another possibility (I'm not personally too fond of it, but it might help) is 
> to convert png files to base64 (using e.g. http://www.base64-image.de/), then 
> copy/paste the text in the web editor of github.
> 
> t
> 
> Le 29/01/2015 10:37, Naupaka Zimmerman a écrit :
>> Hi Greg -
>> 
>> Looks like this used to be possible, but no longer:
>> https://github.com/blog/1302-goodbye-uploads
>> 
>> It does seem like you can potentially paste in images into comment fields, 
>> at least in Chrome, if that helps:
>> https://github.com/tiimgreen/github-cheat-sheet#pasting-clipboard-image-to-comments
>>  
>> 
>> Best,
>> Naupaka
>> 
>> On 29 Jan 2015, at 5:54, Greg Wilson wrote:
>> 
>>> 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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