On Sat, July 8, 2017 04:07, Anelda van der Walt wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We'll be running a Software Carpentry workshop later this month and was
> discussing the git-novice lesson again today... We would really like to
> show people how real code can be put under version control in git/GitHub
> as opposed to showing the Dracula story. ...

This may be well beyond the scope of what you are looking to do
here but, the Comp Sci school to which I am attached has recently
started to make use of its own GitLab instance, for storing project
work and therefore expose comp sci students (and some academics!) to
remote Git workflows in general.

I was therefore wondering if there'd be any future in the Carpentries
having/developing a reference GitLab instance that could be deployed
as a standalone resource against which to teach/target the "remote"
Git  episodes BEFORE exposing people to github,com ?

As some folk in SWC will be aware, I believe it to be a good thing
that its lessons could be rendered, and/or offered, in a completely
"offline format",

 https://github.com/vuw-ecs-kevin/shell-extras/tree/fully-offline-capable

and so the idea of a "minimal GitLab VM", for /offline use/self study/
around Git does have some appeal, albeit probably just for people who
like to (or who may have to) do things "offline" ?

Prabably going to require/assume a little too much background knowledge
to set up, but just a thought I wanted to put out there,
Kevin M. Buckley

eScience Consultant
School of Engineering and Computer Science
Victoria University of Wellington
New Zealand

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