Hey David is there support in this conference for people like me, hopeless procrastinators, perfectionists, scientific aspirers?!...
Some show-and-tell how-to-get-organised learn-from-me kind-of-session might be a ray of light for those in despair like me, perhaps? Hopelessly yours... -- Dr Manuel Corpas Mob: +44 7939 807 507 Blog: http://manuelcorpas.com/ ORCID: 0000-0002-4417-1018 <http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4417-1018> Publons: 1168880 <https://publons.com/author/1168880> Twitter: @manuelcorpas <https://twitter.com/manuelcorpas> LinkedIn: manuelcorpas <https://www.linkedin.com/in/manuelcorpas> Skype: manu_corpas ! Buy my latest book 'Perfect DNA' <https://goo.gl/i2xljT> in Amazon. On 8 February 2017 at 10:47, 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/ > > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss >
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