Re: [Discuss] good and free email list hosts?

[Peter Cock]

Hi Karin,

Several groups I am a member of are using Google Groups for this.
Its not perfect, I find the spam moderation interface painful, but it is free.

Are you planning to restrict posting to list members? That makes
dealing with spam much easier.

Peter

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Karin Lagesen  wrote:
> I am looking to set up an institute independent email list. Anybody got
> ideas for good, free, no advertising, non-spamming and non-sell-your-emails
> list host servers out there?
>
> Karin
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Re: [Discuss] Elsevier Software Track

[Peter Cock]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 5:50 PM, Neil Chue Hong (SSI)
n.chueh...@software.ac.uk wrote:
 ...

 The one thing that I'm not sure about is the cloning of code into a
 journal-specific GitHub repository (e.g.
 https://github.com/ElsevierSoftwareX).

 If the software is already being developed on GitHub, it seems to me
 that it doesn't add anything either in terms of preservation (why not
 just point to the original GitHub repo?), or in terms of
 improving community ...

I believe would be a snapshot of the repository at the time of
publication, which ensures the Journal can keep this as a long
term archive. Right now it is very easy for a developer to delete
their own GitHub content completely (or more subtly, rewrite
history). So it does actually add something tangible in terms of
preservation.

See also archiving a snapshot of your GitHub repository with
Zenodo to get a nice citable DOI:

https://guides.github.com/activities/citable-code/

Peter

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Re: [Discuss] About course template

[Peter Cock]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 10:29 PM, zhuo fu fuzhu...@gmail.com wrote:
 While i am trying to make course template i come up with the following 3
 questions. (background info: I am trying to run git on windows and teach my
 lesson on windows, and I am at the very beginner level.)

 1 In the course template instruction it said do not fork the rep directly
 on github anybody know why?

Making the fork on github would show it as a child of the lesson
template. You probably don't want to make a new course template,
but a new course on a specific topic (e.g. using git, or using Python).

 2, what is make preview? ( I type it in powershell which is the windows
 version of shell and git bash. Nether of them recognized this commend.)

It means running the Unix tool make, which will (by default) read
a file called Makefile (case sensitive) for instructions, in this case
the Makefile would define what to do for preview.

Usually used for compiling software, here make is used to compile
the markdown lesson template into HTML.

You can certainly install make on Windows (e.g. using cygwin) but
I don't know what the Software Carpentry recommendation is for
use with git bash under Windows.

 3, I installed pandoc on windows and run it through powershell. The
 instruction said after finish editing, hit Ctrl-Z . You should text
 converted to HTML! But mine show ^z inside pandoc after I hit
 Ctrl+Z instead of HITML. Any idea why?

Maybe another Windows versus Unix difference :(


 Many thanks for any answers.
 Zhuo

Sorry I can't give you more complete answers.

Peter

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Re: [Discuss] lesson pull requests - md vs html

[Peter Cock]

I have been doing (1) when sending in a pull request,
based on my understanding of the README file at the
time - and have seen that requested on the mailing list
too, e.g.:

http://lists.software-carpentry.org/pipermail/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org/2014-December/002489.html

Peter

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Christina Koch cko...@wisc.edu wrote:
 Hi all,

 My apologies if this has already been answered, but I didn't see any likely
 past discussion threads or info on lesson-template: how will the html for
 lessons be updated?  I see the following options:

 1) the pull request should include changed .md source file and appropriately
 re-generated .html

 2) the pull request only contains changes in .md and maintainers update
 .html a) at time of PR merge or b) once a [insert time interval here].

 What have people been doing?

 Cheers,
 Christina

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 University of Wisconsin Madison, Center for High Throughput Computing
 Advanced Computing Initiative, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, ACI-REF

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