Hi,
short version: Please start using two-letter country codes like 'au' and
'nz' for workshops' countries in workshop websites.
long version:
We'd like to start using two-letter codes like 'nz' for countries,
rather than hyphenated names like 'New-Zealand'. I've submitted a pull
request to the workshop-template repository to make this change [1], and
another to the repository for the main website that mirrors the change
[2]. The second pull request also patches the tool we use to harvest
information from workshop websites so that if you're using a
Hyphenated-Name for the country, we'll translate it into an ISO code.
Note that we're also using two-letter codes for languages (the human
kind) in workshop home pages' headers. You might think they'd be the
same codes, but no: 'ar' is Argentina as a country, but Arabic as a
language. And the parser reads 'no' as Norway when it has quotes around
it, but as false when it's not quoted, because someone thought that
allowing English-language synonyms like 'yes' and 'no' for Booleans
would make our lives better. And after a bit of noodling around, I've
decided that we are NOT EVER going to try adding time zone information
to workshops, because time zones and daylight savings are clearly some
sort of warped psychological experiment thought up by alien scientists
from a parallel universe that never invented ethics review...
Thanks,
Greg
[1] https://github.com/swcarpentry/workshop-template/pull/226
[2] https://github.com/swcarpentry/site/pull/990
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Dr. Greg Wilson | [email protected]
Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org
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