This sounds like a really neat idea, go for it! I'm interested in helping
with the org. Do you want a repo in the SWC github org to store the package
metadata?

Please let us know how it goes and link us to your instructions/materials
when they are up.

- Matt

On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 5:23 PM Michael Sarahan <[email protected]> wrote:

> Would anyone object to me creating an Anaconda.org organization for SWC?
> I would like to build packages and put them there so that during setup,
> people can basically do:
>
> (install miniconda)
> conda install -c swc swc-python
>
> where the -c swc would be the channel, and swc-python would be a
> metapackage that I'll create to pull in Python, nano, git, etc. as
> necessary - basically a one-stop shop for any platform.  There could be
> other metapackages, perhaps swc-python, swc-r, or whatever.  This runs
> parallel to the swc installer (
> https://github.com/swcarpentry/windows-installer), but might be simpler,
> since one could customize metapackages based on what kind of course was
> being taught.
>
> If no one objects, I'd like to do this this weekend in preparation for my
> teaching this week.  I'm also happy to add other SWC folks to the
> organization to help with upkeep and to add stuff.  Just reply to me
> offline.
>
> Let me know...
> Mike
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