Re: [Discuss] instructions to build lesson website

2015-06-24 Thread Aaron O'Leary
Can someone remind me why we discourage forking of the lesson-template/example? On 23 June 2015 at 17:30, Ivan Gonzalez igl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Maneesha, Yes. If you want to make changes to the git lesson, for example, you should go to the lesson repo on Github [1] and fork it.

Re: [Discuss] [Instructors] workshop at Monsanto in St Louis in April

2015-03-08 Thread Aaron O'Leary
On Fri 06 Mar, Matt Davis wrote: I've been advocating off-list that we do charge corporations more for workshops than we charge universities, and I think this is another good reason to do that. (While still asking our instructors to be volunteers--the additional money would all go to SWC.) I

Re: [Discuss] [Instructors] workshop at Monsanto in St Louis in April

2015-03-08 Thread Aaron O'Leary
On Sun 08 Mar, Martin Bähr wrote: Excerpts from Aaron O'Leary's message of 2015-03-08 10:43:47 +0100: Volunteering is bad, for the same reason that unpaid internships are bad: access is limited to those who can afford the time to participate. Volunteering is socially exlusive. woha, that

Re: [Discuss] [Instructors] workshop at Monsanto in St Louis in April

2015-03-04 Thread Aaron O'Leary
I emailed Greg privately in response to this. Here it is: Hi Greg, I just want to register that something about this doesn't sit right with me. I'm not sure whether it is because of Monsanto's poor ethical record or because they are a huge multi-national, but my instinct is that they (and other

Re: [Discuss] setting up workshop repositories just got a _lot_ easier

2015-01-11 Thread Aaron O'Leary
Is there an API for this? I can't see anything in the docs about it. Could we embed this in the workshop-template page so that you only have to type a new repository name? On 11 January 2015 at 03:26, Greg Wilson gvwil...@software-carpentry.org wrote: I exchanged email with Arfon Smith at

Re: [Discuss] keeping track of who's extracting history from what

2014-11-21 Thread Aaron O'Leary
Have you got a plan for the transition from bc to separate lessons? Will this happen once history for all lessons is extracted or just as they come? How about a set date for the change? I'm thinking about PRs that come up between now and the transition to the separate lesson: should these