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...


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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
>>
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