Agree with Stephen. For scientists interested in reproducible research best practice, I would recommend teaching use of Figshare for images, as this provides DoIs and a better degree of archival persistence.
Markdown image format  will display the image in Github prettily. — Dr James Hetherington Team Leader, Research Software Development, Research IT Services And Honorary Lecturer, Department of Computer Science University College London Twitter: @uclrcsoftdev, @jamespjh Skype: ucgajhe Phone: +44 7946868834 Site: development.rc.ucl.ac.uk On 29/01/2015 15:44, "Turner, Stephen D. (sdt5z)" <[email protected]> wrote: >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 >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Dr. Greg Wilson | [email protected] >>>> Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Discuss mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> >>>>http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.soft >>>>ware-carpentry.org >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> >>>http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.softw >>>are-carpentry.org >> >> -- >> Timothée Poisot, PhD >> >> Professeur adjoint >> Département des sciences biologiques >> Université de Montréal >> >> phone : 514 343-7691 >> web : http://poisotlab.io >> twitter: @PoisotLab >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> >>http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.softwa >>re-carpentry.org > > >_______________________________________________ >Discuss mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.softwar >e-carpentry.org _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
