Hi David,
Man, I wish I could go to your (un)conference! Any chance you can stream some
of it?
The ‘Review platform’ threw me off at first as I thought you meant ‘peer
review’ instead of ‘code review’ :-)
Are things like impactstory and publons out of scope?
All the best with the organisation,
Lex
> On 08 Feb 2017, at 11:47, DVD PS <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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/ <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/
> <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]
> <mailto:[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
>
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