This has been a great discussion and set of ideas and recommendations. Thanks all! I started an issue to see if and how we might pilot it in a few workshops.
https://github.com/swcarpentry/workshop-template/issues/418 Best, -Tracy On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 8:13 AM, Brandon Curtis <[email protected]> wrote: > You can also set "allowfreeurl" to true in config.json. Then you can go > to any free URL and create a new document. > > Here's an instance of hackmd where allowfreeurl=true: > https://hack.allmende.io/asdfasdfasdf > > Great tool! Thanks for the heads-up! > > * -- Brandon* > > On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 6:02 PM, Abhijit Dasgupta <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Thanks, I'll check it out. >> >> On Tue, Jul 4, 2017, 8:59 PM Juan Nunez-Iglesias <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi Abhijit, >>> >>> Use a service like bitly.com to shorten the URL. With a free Bitly >>> account, you can customise any link to bit.ly/my-preferred-url (as long >>> as that suffix hasn’t been used before). >>> >>> Juan. >>> >>> On 5 Jul 2017, 5:24 AM +1000, Abhijit Dasgupta <[email protected]>, >>> wrote: >>> >>> Is there any way to make the URL more "English" than the random one I'm >>> seeing? At least something more typable? >>> >>> On Sat, Jul 1, 2017, 1:57 PM <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> +1 >>>> >>>> > On Jul 1, 2017, at 08:12, C. Titus Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> > >>>> > Hi all, >>>> > >>>> > in recent workshops, we’ve switched to using hackmd.io for >>>> collaborative note taking, and a couple times Carpentry instructors have >>>> gone “oh no, another tool… HOLY COW THIS IS AMAZING” >>>> > >>>> > So I wanted to introduce it to the list! >>>> > >>>> > Briefly, hackmd.io is an open source [0] collaborative Markdown >>>> editing tool that (I think) Luiz Irber introduced me to. >>>> > >>>> > It is quite pretty, supports interactive collaborative editing and >>>> rendering, and seems to scale quite well (at least we have been using it >>>> with 30+ people in a classroom). >>>> > >>>> > It seems like a 90% replacement for Etherpad, with the two caveats >>>> that >>>> > >>>> > (1) it doesn’t have a live chat. >>>> > (2) to avoid login requirements, you need to explicitly set the >>>> permissions after creation to allow “guest editing” by anyone who has the >>>> URL - the default permissions restrict editing. >>>> > >>>> > But if you are logged in, you get a list of notepads that you touched >>>> recently, so that’s actually quite nice. >>>> > >>>> > I have to say that I really like being able to interactively write >>>> nice looking notes in Markdown and then transfer them to GitHub for later >>>> reference. >>>> > >>>> > Anyway, this has been a really robust and friendly tool for us so I >>>> thought I’d share! >>>> > >>>> > best, >>>> > —titus >>>> > >>>> > [0] https://github.com/hackmdio/hackmd >>>> > >>>> > _______________________________________________ >>>> > Discuss mailing list >>>> > [email protected] >>>> > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Discuss mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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