Hi Anelda!!! I'm organising a conference pretty much to discuss that exact point!! You are not going to be in London the 2nd and 3rd of March for any chance, are you?? - Rest of Software Carpentry, you are also invited if you want to join (registration will be opening soon).
http://sciencetogether.online/ In the tools section, I have a bunch of them that I know can improve research collaboration. As an ultimate workflow... I don't know, maybe we can get something out about that... Sometimes the university has already put some tools in place (either homebrewed or contracted like microsoft/google/...) and not using these to share some information (student's marks for example) may be breaking some laws. Where I work we are using slack, connected with github/travis/jenkins/etc... together with waffles (Trello like for GitHub) and that pretty much does the job. Most of the tools nowadays have some type of integration built-it to use others and if they are not available probably there tools like cloudpipes or others that can connect these: http://alternativeto.net/software/cloudpipes/ One important point to have in mind is how these research groups want to interact with external collaborators. How much they can force the machinery to ask other people to create yet another account in X service. For example, slack works as one account per team, so I have lost account of how many accounts I've needed to create. Other services like IRC (yes, that's still used in the open source community) it's accountless, you just choose a nickname when using it and that's it. The same applies to document sharing - nowadays in most of them offers you a link so people can access without an account (like our beloved etherpads) but then you may have lost the information of who has edited what - Anonymous1 vs Anonymous2... I will keep you all informed of the output of the conference :) Have a wonderful day!! David On 8 February 2017 at 10:08, Anelda van der Walt <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear community, > > I am struggling to advise our researchers about which tools to use to > manage their research projects, data, communication, documents, calender, > etc with. > > Some suggestions has been Asana, Trello, Slack, amongst others. > > I understand that individual researchers/research groups may choose to use > any tool they prefer and that they probably came to using the tool because > they saw it in their community or heard about it from a friend. > > My question is, at a university level, what is a good default workflow to > recommend to researchers if they're completely new at using software to > manage/share? So the audience is not computer programmers (github won't > work). > > The great thing is that so many tools integrate with each other these days > - Take e.g. Trello's integration with Github, Drive, etc. > > If you have any ideas or suggestions of something that works or is > recommended by your university, please contact me directly. I would really > appreciate your ideas and inputs. > > Kind regards, > > Anelda > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss >
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