Re: [Discuss] Boot camp, bootcamp, workshop

2014-09-25 Thread Greg Wilson
Architect Tel: +44 (0)131 650 5141 EPCC, The University of Edinburgh http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk Software Sustainability Institute http://www.software.ac.uk -- Greg Wilson Software Carpentry | http://www.software-carpentry.org

Re: [Discuss] SWC material as a semester long course?

2014-09-29 Thread Greg Wilson
department at CU), and the response is all positive. I'm mostly asking to see what logistical/administrative hurdles I will encounter. - Dan -- Greg Wilson Software Carpentry | http://www.software-carpentry.org/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss

Re: [Discuss] code review content from MSL

2014-09-30 Thread Greg Wilson
Thanks to everyone for the suggestions - I think this would be a great candidate for an add-on lesson. Let's move this discussion to Bill's GitHub repo (https://github.com/mozillascience/codeReview) so that the whole conversation is in one place. Cheers, Greg -- Greg Wilson Software

[Discuss] managing workshop websites

2014-10-04 Thread Greg Wilson
place): will this scheme work for you? What questions do you have? How could we make it even simpler, especially for people who aren't experts in HTML templating and Git? Thanks, Greg -- Greg Wilson Software Carpentry | http://www.software-carpentry.org

Re: [Discuss] tmpnb: temporary IPython Notebook servers using Docker containers

2014-10-26 Thread Greg Wilson
out of touch with reality I am. (Because that's often the simplest explanation...) Cheers, Greg -- Greg Wilson Software Carpentry | http://www.software-carpentry.org/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http

Re: [Discuss] Teaching very simple XML manipulation

2014-10-30 Thread Greg Wilson
-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org -- Greg Wilson Software Carpentry | http://www.software-carpentry.org/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http

[Discuss] Git problems on Mac OS X 10.8

2014-10-30 Thread Greg Wilson
... Thanks, Greg -- Greg Wilson Software Carpentry | http://www.software-carpentry.org/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org

Re: [Discuss] Targeting intermediate learners

2014-10-31 Thread Greg Wilson
. I don't know how big a problem this is (I don't even know what metric I'd use), but several conversations in the past two years make me believe it's big enough that we need to design for it. Thanks, Greg -- Greg Wilson Software Carpentry | http://www.software-carpentry.org

[Discuss] example of a well-written lesson

2014-11-06 Thread Greg Wilson
[1] http://teaching.software-carpentry.org/2014/11/06/an-example-of-a-well-written-lesson/ -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software

[Discuss] please find bugs in the workshop and lesson templates

2014-11-10 Thread Greg Wilson
. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org

[Discuss] vote: splitting the README for the new workshop template

2014-11-11 Thread Greg Wilson
. for doing this one, Greg -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo

[Discuss] converting the lesson on Make

2014-11-13 Thread Greg Wilson
are attached (thanks to Trevor King for figuring it out and explaining it to me (though I still don't claim to actually *understand* all of it)). Thanks, Greg -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org In order to extract the history

[Discuss] lesson on regular expressions

2014-11-14 Thread Greg Wilson
picking things that are small, and have relatively little history, to find out how well our lesson template works. -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss

[Discuss] moving discussion of version control of big files to the Mozilla Science Lab forum

2014-11-19 Thread Greg Wilson
Hi everyone, Thanks for all the pointers about big data and Git, but I think this discussion is now out of the scope of this list, so please move follow-ups to http://forum.mozillascience.org/. Thanks, Greg -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http

[Discuss] wanted: volunteer to do a one-page guide to accessibility for our workshops

2014-11-20 Thread Greg Wilson
). Thanks, Greg -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo

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

2014-11-20 Thread Greg Wilson
(such as they are) have already been extracted; if you're planning to dive into anything else, or have already done so, please file an issue right away so that people know what you're doing and we don't trip over each other. Thanks, Greg -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org

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

2014-11-21 Thread Greg Wilson
, Greg Wilson wrote: Hi, I've created a separate issue in GitHub for extracting the history of each of the novice lessons with the 'Extracting History' label (or added that label to existing issues): https://github.com/swcarpentry/bc/labels/Extract%20History The intermediate Make and Regular

Re: [Discuss] Reference for statement in R lesson material.

2014-11-24 Thread Greg Wilson
://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org

Re: [Discuss] Reference for statement in R lesson material.

2014-11-24 Thread Greg Wilson
Thanks - I'll PR. G On 2014-11-24 2:56 PM, Shoaib Sufi wrote: Thanks Greg, The intent and argument is much clearer with the text you refer to. : ) On 24 Nov 2014 18:47, Greg Wilson gvwil...@software-carpentry.org mailto:gvwil...@software-carpentry.org wrote: Hi all, The 95

[Discuss] featuring your projects on the Software Carpentry site

2014-11-25 Thread Greg Wilson
any of the files in that directory as a starting point) and img/projects/your-project-logo.png (120 pixels wide). Cheers, Greg -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org ___ Discuss

Re: [Discuss] What is the status of the mini-repo / zip file?

2014-11-26 Thread Greg Wilson
/announcing-nov-2014-lab-meeting.html ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software

Re: [Discuss] charge advanced courses

2014-11-28 Thread Greg Wilson
recommend is mostly there to discourage no-shows. Thanks, Greg -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http

Re: [Discuss] example of a well-written lesson

2014-11-28 Thread Greg Wilson
the code example there was more about name space than encapsulation. My two cent. Thanks. -kai On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Greg Wilson gvwil...@software-carpentry.org mailto:gvwil...@software-carpentry.org wrote: I've just added a short post to the teaching

[Discuss] reminder: lab meeting this Thursday

2014-12-01 Thread Greg Wilson
. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org

[Discuss] it's been a busy day on the blog...

2014-12-03 Thread Greg Wilson
...see http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/12/summarizing-the-news.html for a summary and links. Look forward to seeing you at the lab meeting tomorrow, Thanks, Greg -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org

Re: [Discuss] customizing the ipython notebook

2014-12-04 Thread Greg Wilson
list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org ___ Discuss

Re: [Discuss] Code blocks and GitHub Pages

2014-12-05 Thread Greg Wilson
://github.com/gettalong/kramdown/issues/189. Cheers, Raniere ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software

Re: [Discuss] Code blocks and GitHub Pages

2014-12-05 Thread Greg Wilson
discussion: https://github.com/swcarpentry/bc/issues/524 John -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software

Re: [Discuss] Your ideas on instructor life

2014-12-12 Thread Greg Wilson
___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org

Re: [Discuss] Your ideas on instructor life

2014-12-12 Thread Greg Wilson
-carpentry.org/blog/2014/09/further-thoughts-on-better-teachers.html [2]: http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/12/plans-for-2015-mentorship-and-assessment.html On Dec 12, 2014, at 1:08 PM, Greg Wilson gvwil...@software-carpentry.org wrote: I'd like to +1 Matt's comment as well -- given how

Re: [Discuss] Contributing to the Novice Python lessons

2014-12-13 Thread Greg Wilson
/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software

[Discuss] GitHub ribbons in the new lesson template

2014-12-16 Thread Greg Wilson
interested in the problem, please head over to https://github.com/swcarpentry/lesson-template/issues/16 and propose solutions. thanks, Greg -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org ___ Discuss

[Discuss] how to set up a workshop website or create a new lesson

2014-12-21 Thread Greg Wilson
excited by the possibilities. Happy Solstice, Greg [1] http://third-bit.com/browsercast/ [2] https://github.com/swcarpentry/swc-tutorials [3] http://swcarpentry.github.io/swc-tutorials/ -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org

[Discuss] Visually Impaired Bioinformatics Graduate Student Seeking R Programming Tutoring

2014-12-26 Thread Greg Wilson
on it? Who else would you recommend me to contact regarding this? I thank you very much in advance for your thoughts, ideas, suggestions, recommendations, time, help, efforts and support. With very warm regards, Thomas Hahn -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry

[Discuss] we need more testimonials

2015-01-14 Thread Greg Wilson
it in (either as a pull request or by emailing me). It'll only take you a few minutes to write, and it could make a big difference. Thanks, Greg -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org

[Discuss] RStudio webinars

2015-01-14 Thread Greg Wilson
and pass them on to RStudio, and hopefully get something going early in February. Thanks, Greg [1] http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2015/01/thanks-to-rstudio.html [2] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/r-discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil

[Discuss] reminder: lab meeting tomorrow

2015-01-21 Thread Greg Wilson
of the candidates for the Steering Committee, and we'll be giving updates on our lessons, our finances, and a few other things. Thanks, Greg -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org ___ Discuss

[Discuss] new instructions for creating workshop websites

2015-01-21 Thread Greg Wilson
to use this instead of the old 'bc' repository for all workshops from now on. Thanks, Greg -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software

[Discuss] University College London becomes Software Carpentry affiliate

2015-01-22 Thread Greg Wilson
/research-it/software-carpentry-affiliation-jan15. We're very grateful for their support, and look forward to working with them for many years to come. Thanks, Greg -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org

[Discuss] simplified instructions for setting up workshop websites

2015-01-20 Thread Greg Wilson
. Thanks, Greg -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Discuss] Perl workshop curriculum

2015-01-18 Thread Greg Wilson
://github.com/swcarpentry/workshop-template/pull/83#issuecomment-67391624 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil

[Discuss] volunteer wanted to make 90-second video of sticky notes in action

2015-01-17 Thread Greg Wilson
We would be grateful if someone would volunteer to produce a 90-second video showing how we use sticky notes in class for use in instructor training. If you're interested, please mail me and we'll get the ball rolling. Thanks Greg -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org

[Discuss] help reorganizing the teaching.software-carpentry.org WordPress

2015-01-17 Thread Greg Wilson
to wrestle with this, please mail me and we'll get the ball rolling (the coming week because we're starting another round of training on Feb 1, and I'd like to have this all set up before then). Thanks, Greg -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software

Re: [Discuss] Perl workshop curriculum

2015-01-18 Thread Greg Wilson
-carpentry.org -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Discuss] Promotional materials for SWC

2015-02-16 Thread Greg Wilson
-- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software

[Discuss] Software Carpentry lab meeting on Jan 22, 2015

2015-01-12 Thread Greg Wilson
finances and on our new workshop and lesson templates. If you're planning to attend, please add yourself to https://etherpad.mozilla.org/swc-labmeeting-2015-01. thanks, Greg -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org

Re: [Discuss] contact for being a helper at PyCon

2015-02-14 Thread Greg Wilson
workshop planned (the conference center is a very expensive venue), but maybe our instructors in Montreal could organize something to run at the same time as the conference? Or pick a restaurant and a night so that everyone can meet up? Cheers, Greg -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software

[Discuss] where do you store your data?

2015-02-09 Thread Greg Wilson
? In astronomy? How well does it work? When *doesn't* it work, and why? Thanks, Greg -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software

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

2015-02-05 Thread Greg Wilson
is. Peter On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 6:02 PM, Greg Wilson gvwil...@software-carpentry.org wrote: Yes - please update the primary source (Markdown, R Markdown, IPython notebook) in the PR, and we'll re-generate all the secondary files (generated HTML) when the PR is merged. We should add a note about

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

2015-02-05 Thread Greg Wilson
On 2015-02-05 1:45 PM, Paul Wilson wrote: On 02/05/2015 12:39 PM, Greg Wilson wrote: I believe we should only include primary files in PRs, *not* generated files, so that everyone who's reviewing has exactly one place to look for changes I agree with this approach and add the following

Re: [Discuss] Handling Forgotten *.html Commits

2015-03-18 Thread Greg Wilson
McGill University t: 514.761.6131x4781 e: gdeve...@gmail.com mailto:gdeve...@gmail.com ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org -- Dr. Greg

[Discuss] teaching tips (or, the last one worked so well...)

2015-03-15 Thread Greg Wilson
should tell novice instructors (and remind more experienced instructors of). And if you have questions that aren't answered there, please post those as well and we'll fill 'em in. Thanks, Greg -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software

[Discuss] cutting the core to three topics

2015-03-17 Thread Greg Wilson
on testing, or on using Make and other tools to create reproducible workflows, please mail me --- I'm happy to mentor, and I think it would be a good chance to put some of the things we've discussed about lesson design into practice. Thanks, Greg -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org

Re: [Discuss] Knowledge Transfer Programme

2015-03-21 Thread Greg Wilson
___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org

Re: [Discuss] watching code reviews

2015-03-11 Thread Greg Wilson
wrote: This is great! live chat about this over at the science lab irc, irc://irc.mozilla.org/sciencelab On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 8:39 AM, Greg Wilson gvwil...@software-carpentry.org wrote: Hi everyone, Mike Conley, a Firefox developer, has been live-streaming some of his coding sessions over

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

2015-03-05 Thread Greg Wilson
to, please give us a shout. Cheers, Greg -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman

[Discuss] testing scientific software revisited

2015-03-10 Thread Greg Wilson
Hi everyone, Following on from last November's discussion (see http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/10/why-we-dont-teach-testing.html), Ian Hawke has put together some notebooks to test some scientific code. He'd be grateful for comments - the link to the GitHub repo is below, and you

Re: [Discuss] Are we bloating our lessons?

2015-04-01 Thread Greg Wilson
, for example). Doing a better job of collecting timing info from instructors would also help, but we've been saying that for a while... Thanks, Greg -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org

Re: [Discuss] Are we bloating our lessons?

2015-03-31 Thread Greg Wilson
/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry

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

2015-03-04 Thread Greg Wilson
kept us at the meeting longer than we'd wished. Jason moorepants.info http://moorepants.info/ +01 530-601-9791 tel:530-601-9791 On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 6:43 AM, Greg Wilson gvwil...@software-carpentry.org mailto:gvwil...@software-carpentry.org wrote: Hi everyone

Re: [Discuss] A useful little Git I just screwed up FAQ

2015-03-05 Thread Greg Wilson
these randomly-generated manual pages from the real thing. I am confident that the most common response of subjects will be, Ohgod ohgod make it stop... - G -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org

Re: [Discuss] How to add things to the SWC webspace

2015-04-02 Thread Greg Wilson
@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org ___ Discuss mailing list

Re: [Discuss] GitHub Organization Reorg

2015-04-22 Thread Greg Wilson
-*' lesson, please let me know. Thanks, Greg -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman

Re: [Discuss] Rodeo IDE is like Rstudio

2015-04-29 Thread Greg Wilson
Hi all, Thanks for the ideas - let's move this one to https://github.com/swcarpentry/site/issues/955 in order to save bandwidth on the 'discuss' list. Thanks, Greg -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org

Re: [Discuss] Easier installation of scientific software

2015-05-07 Thread Greg Wilson
Hi everyone, This subject seems likely to generate a lot of discussion, so I've started an issue at https://github.com/swcarpentry/site/issues/963 - please add your comments there (so that we can keep traffic on this list manageable), and we'll summarize in a blog post in a few days.

Re: [Discuss] Data Science/Programming Position in Vancouver

2015-05-12 Thread Greg Wilson
in Vancouver. They are looking for someone who is a good programmer with a bit of Data Science magic thrown in. If you are interested in more information, please contact Georgina Havelka at georgina.have...@cumul8.com mailto:georgina.have...@cumul8.com Lynne -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software

[Discuss] jobs open at the Center for Open Science

2015-05-15 Thread Greg Wilson
Hi everyone, The Center for Open Science has several jobs posted on their site at http://centerforopenscience.org/jobs/ - I think a couple of these might be interesting to people on this list, so if you're thinking about next career steps, please have a look. Cheers, Greg -- Dr. Greg

[Discuss] proposal: move discussion of open science out of Git/Mercurial lessons

2015-04-05 Thread Greg Wilson
manageable. Thanks, Greg -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Discuss] Are we bloating our lessons?

2015-04-01 Thread Greg Wilson
and maybe with a bit of a different focus, at least for rank beginners. Did I just hear you volunteer to help write a more accurate advertising blurb for our workshops? I think I just heard that... :-) Thanks, Greg -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http

Re: [Discuss] instructions to build lesson website

2015-06-05 Thread Greg Wilson
? ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org

Re: [Discuss] instructions to build lesson website

2015-06-05 Thread Greg Wilson
-generated HTML. ​ I'm curious to hear how people do this. Do you put the html in your .gitignore? I'm looking at some of the existing pull requests and I don't immediately see anything that excludes the html files.​ ​-maneesha ​ ​ On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Greg Wilson gvwil

[Discuss] switching to ISO two-letter country codes

2015-06-10 Thread Greg Wilson
] https://github.com/swcarpentry/site/pull/990 -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org

[Discuss] Software Carpentry is hiring

2015-06-22 Thread Greg Wilson
, Greg -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software

[Discuss] research-based course design

2015-06-21 Thread Greg Wilson
in just 10 pages. Cheers, Greg -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Discuss] using Jekyll instead of Pandoc to build lessons

2015-06-25 Thread Greg Wilson
like to; my only defense is that we're learning as we go... -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software

[Discuss] moving Jekyll-vs-Pandoc discussion to a GitHub issue

2015-06-25 Thread Greg Wilson
Hi everyone, This thread looks set to run for a while, so let's move discussion to https://github.com/swcarpentry/lesson-template/issues/279 - please add further comments there rather than sending to 'discuss'. I'll archive discussion to date in that issue this evening or first thing tomorrow

Re: [Discuss] testimonials from individuals in non-programmer labs

2015-06-24 Thread Greg Wilson
@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss

Re: [Discuss] instructions to build lesson website

2015-06-24 Thread Greg Wilson
the lesson authors have been working on. There's some explanation of this in https://github.com/swcarpentry/lesson-example#why-is-this-example-and-documentation-separate-from-the-template - if you think that needs to be moved up or highlighted in some way, please let us know. Cheers, Greg -- Dr. Greg

[Discuss] a new lesson on Make

2015-06-18 Thread Greg Wilson
, suggestions, and everything else would be very welcome. Cheers, Greg -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http

[Discuss] are you working on an open source/open science project?

2015-06-19 Thread Greg Wilson
into the _includes/orgs directory; logo goes into img/orgs, and should be 120 pixels wide. -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http

Re: [Discuss] are you working on an open source/open science project?

2015-06-19 Thread Greg Wilson
Whoops, just, _includes/projects - thanks. Greg (who's drinking decaf today) On 2015-06-19 12:01 PM, W. Trevor King wrote: On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 10:38:30AM -0400, Greg Wilson wrote: Snippet of HTML in https://github.com/swcarpentry/site goes into the _includes/orgs directory; logo goes

[Discuss] using Jekyll instead of Pandoc to build lessons

2015-06-24 Thread Greg Wilson
Markdown or Jupyter Notebooks will still need to convert from those formats to plain old Markdown [2], then commit that Markdown to the repo, but they have to do that now as well. [2] We haven't built this bit yet - we want to see if the switch to Jekyll is worthwhile first. -- Dr. Greg

Re: [Discuss] Food for thought for the Python 2 vs 3 debate

2015-06-15 Thread Greg Wilson
Python 3 it is. What other changes would people like to our lessons in the next couple of months? ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org

[Discuss] warming up for Version 5.4

2015-06-12 Thread Greg Wilson
is on the table...) Cheers, Greg -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman

Re: [Discuss] [Shell] Teaching grep and find before rm, mv and cp: moving to GitHub

2015-05-29 Thread Greg Wilson
Hi everyone, This is a fun discussion, but to keep everyone's inbox manageable, and record it with the lesson that we're discussing, let's move it to a GitHub issue: I've created https://github.com/swcarpentry/shell-novice/issues/183, and would be grateful if you could add comments there.

Re: [Discuss] Question about the Unix shell lesson

2015-07-02 Thread Greg Wilson
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Re: [Discuss] Question about the Unix shell lesson

2015-07-02 Thread Greg Wilson
Hi everyone, This is a really useful discussion - can we please move the thread to https://github.com/swcarpentry/shell-novice/issues/194 (the issue for discussing changes to the shell lesson for the next release)? I've added links to the most recent posts from the discussion list, and

Re: [Discuss] Recorded video lectures

2015-06-30 Thread Greg Wilson
: Is there a youtube channel available with recorded live lectures? Thanks, Javier ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org -- Dr. Greg Wilson

[Discuss] what changes should we make to our lesson template?

2015-05-23 Thread Greg Wilson
thoughts there. (Please put each idea in a separate comment, rather than bundling several ideas into one - it'll make the threading easier to follow.) Thanks, Greg -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org

[Discuss] hiring a new Executive Director for Software Carpentry

2015-07-06 Thread Greg Wilson
. Thanks, Greg -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo

[Discuss] publishing our lessons (feedback wanted)

2015-08-17 Thread Greg Wilson
discovering that once again there are a lot of devils lurking in the details) -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http

[Discuss] wanted: Ruby programmer for a one-day task

2015-08-20 Thread Greg Wilson
Hi, I'm looking for someone fluent in Ruby for a small prototyping task. If you're interested, please mail me directly (gvwil...@software-carpentry.org) for details. Thanks, Greg -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org

[Discuss] code review in the sciences (was: Elsevier Software Track)

2015-08-02 Thread Greg Wilson
. If this is right, changes to tooling alone aren't going to help - instead, publishers should focus their efforts on changing the review process so that it runs in parallel with coding and analysis, rather than afterward. Cheers, Greg -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software

Re: [Discuss] Map of the team

2015-08-03 Thread Greg Wilson
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Re: [Discuss] code review in the sciences

2015-08-03 Thread Greg Wilson
Neil Chue Hong: I've talked to the SoftwareX editors previously, and I think we agree that actually the tricky thing here is providing the right tools to make reviewing software easier, and that's something where publishers can certainly make improvements. Greg Wilson: I believe that if we

[Discuss] top 10 myths about teaching computer science

2015-07-18 Thread Greg Wilson
a lot in there that I think will be interesting to anyone who teaches Software Carpentry (or anything else). Thanks, Greg -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org ___ Discuss mailing

[Discuss] please help Software Carpentry's strategic planning

2015-07-18 Thread Greg Wilson
/1ziREbC7RElyGUrkFrpw0WrE9M1v4AoWJF8aA-ND7_WU/viewform?c=0w=1 [2] http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2015/07/scf-swot-survey.html -- Dr. Greg Wilson| gvwil...@software-carpentry.org Software Carpentry | http://software-carpentry.org ___ Discuss mailing list

Re: [Discuss] Is etherpad down?

2015-10-21 Thread Greg Wilson
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Re: [Discuss] pulling along those behind

2015-10-27 Thread Greg Wilson
If anyone would like to summarize the discussion in a blog post (which we could then include in instructor training), I'd be very grateful, and so would future generations of instructors. Cheers, Greg ___ Discuss mailing list

Re: [Discuss] pulling along those behind

2015-10-28 Thread Greg Wilson
Hi everyone, The simplest way to start might be to throw stuff into this Etherpad: http://pad.software-carpentry.org/pulling-along-those-behind Cheers, Greg ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org

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