[Discuss] Transparency and Openness Training Coordinator job posting

Hi Everyone, We have a new position for a Transparency and Openness Training Coordinator at the Center for Open Science (a non-profit tech company in Charlottesville, VA). We're looking for someone

[Discuss] Switching GAP lesson to new template

Hi all, I am switching the GAP lesson to use the new template. At the moment when I am doing 'make serve' locally in the clone of https://github.com/alex-konovalov/gap-lesson then it works fine, but GitHub pages does not build the online version at http://alex-konovalov.github.io/gap-lesson/ Has

Re: [Discuss] Switching GAP lesson to new template

Hi Greg, Thank you - the file was left there indeed. I've removed it and pushed, waited a bit :) but still no effect. Will appreciate your help! Best wishes Alexander > On 20 Sep 2016, at 16:21, Greg Wilson wrote: > > Hi Alexander, > > Do you have a .nojekyll file in your repository? (If

Re: [Discuss] Switching GAP lesson to new template

Hi Alexander, Do you have a .nojekyll file in your repository? (If that's not the problem please give me a shout and I'll help you debug, since I'm almost certainly the one who caused the problem.) Cheers, Greg On 2016-09-20 11:19 AM, Alexander Konovalov wrote: Hi all, I am switching th

[Discuss] Strategies/techniques for accessibility (visual impairment)

Hi all, We’ll be teaching a workshop soon, with a visually-impaired (blind) student. This is a new experience for me, and I was wondering if any of you might be able to share some advice for teaching strategies/approaches to delivering material that could be useful? Many thanks, L. -- Leigh

Re: [Discuss] Switching GAP lesson to new template

That started to work nearly one hour since I have deleted the .nojekyll file! Thanks for the hint! Perhaps GitHub was overloaded and did not build it immediately (strange). Best wishes Alexander > On 20 Sep 2016, at 16:30, Alexander Konovalov > wrote: > > Hi Greg, > > > Thank you - the fil

Re: [Discuss] Switching GAP lesson to new template

Glad to hear it - when in doubt, run 'make lesson-check' in the root directory of your repository. It has a check for '.nojekyll', and we're accumulating other tests there as well. Cheers, Greg On 2016-09-20 12:39 PM, Alexander Konovalov wrote: That started to work nearly one hour since I

Re: [Discuss] Strategies/techniques for accessibility (visual impairment)

On 20 September 2016 at 08:59, Leighton Pritchard wrote: > Hi all, > > We’ll be teaching a workshop soon, with a visually-impaired (blind) student. > This is a new experience for me, and I was wondering if any of you might be > able to share some advice for teaching strategies/approaches to delive

[Discuss] MobaXTerm

Hi, Since we've been having frequent problem using Git+Bash because of its lack of Nano (and people not following the installation steps to the letter), we attempted using MobaXTerm instead, and have them run apt-cyg install nano apt-cyg install git before the class. This worked great