Re: [Discuss] lesson material as pdf?

2016-01-31 Thread Raniere Silva
Sorry for the late reply. > Just wondering if any of you know of a way of dumping a lesson as a pdf? > That way I could have it on my pad and annotate it there instead of having > it on paper. We did our best to provide a special CSS for print so that learners and instructors could print the les

Re: [Discuss] lesson material as pdf?

2016-02-01 Thread Raniere Silva
> I recall there being an ebook version at some point, but my google-fu > didn't find it. Did that exist too? Yes. There is a EPUB version at http://scf.rgaiacs.com/nightly/. The script that I use is available at https://github.com/rgaiacs/swc-nightly-compiler. And I patched the lessons with https

Re: [Discuss] lesson material as pdf?

2016-02-01 Thread Raniere Silva
> I used to get them there: > http://scf.rgaiacs.com/nightly/ > (not sure it is up to date) They are up to date! signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/

[Discuss] Lab meeting reminder - Starting now

2016-02-09 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi all, we are just starting this month lab meeting right now. Please join us at https://bluejeans.com/565111800/. More info at http://pad.software-carpentry.org/swc-lab-meeting-2016-02-09. Thanks, Raniere ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.softwa

Re: [Discuss] Election question

2016-02-15 Thread Raniere SIlva
I have the same question. > Maybe I missed this but is there a reason we didn't use the same > style of voting used last year? I was trying to find a good group for the next steering committee (since I was expecting to have 7 votes instead of 14 :>) and have to choose only one candidate makes imp

Re: [Discuss] Election question

2016-02-15 Thread Raniere SIlva
> I also fully expected having to vote for 7 people. I just received a new key for the election and the new link states: "Please vote for as many as seven (7) candidates for the Steering Committee." ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpe

Re: [Discuss] Steering Committee Election Results

2016-02-21 Thread Raniere Silva
> Please share in welcoming them. They represent 4 continents and 5 > nations, and come from a diversity of disciplines and backgrounds. In this count I'm representing Brazil or UK? :-) Cheers, Raniere (now on UK) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@list

Re: [Discuss] Julia lesson/tutorial?

2016-03-02 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi Tiffany, > I may be working a little bit with Julia (language) with a > collaborator. I hope that you like the language. It has some nice features. And I believe that you will not have problem learning it on the fly since the syntax if very similar with Python but having arrays starting at 1

[Discuss] Of more than academic interest

2016-03-24 Thread Raniere Silva
Software Carpentry is mentioned by The Economist: http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21695377-professors-unprofessional-programs-have-created-new-profession-more. It is a shame that they didn't mention Data Carpentry. Raniere signature.asc Description: PGP signature __

[Discuss] Data and Software Carpentry in-person Instructor Training in Edinburgh

2016-04-05 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi, The Software Sustainability Institute will host the Data and Software Carpentry in-person Instructor Training on 4-5th May 2016 in Edinburgh. A number of attendees who have been ​on a waiting list for the training have already signed up but there are still several places left. If you want to t

Re: [Discuss] Looking the part in Software carpentry t-shirts

2016-04-10 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi Benjamin, > Hi all, looking over a few YouTube videos of Greg doing SC material I > noticed in many he is in a pretty nice white shirt with he SC logo. > Wondering if we could purchase one of these for giving workshops? Yes. :-) You can order as many as you want at http://www.cafepress.com/sw

[Discuss] Outreach misconception about Data and Software Carpentry as piece of software instead of skills

2016-04-12 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi, this week I was negotianting a workshop and the person that I was talking to really believe that Data and Software Carpentry are two softwares and the workshops are about the softwares itself. That person probably spent a lot of time looking at Data and Software Carpentry website (based the em

[Discuss] Outreach misconception about Data and Software Carpentry as piece of software instead of skills

2016-04-12 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi, this week I was negotianting a workshop and the person that I was talking to really believe that Data and Software Carpentry are two softwares and the workshops are about the softwares itself. That person probably spent a lot of time looking at Data and Software Carpentry website (based the em

Re: [Discuss] Outreach misconception about Data and Software Carpentry as piece of software instead of skills

2016-04-12 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi John, > At one recent workshop, the host had advertised the workshop as an R > workshop to participants. However, the host had requested a Software > Carpentry workshop that included R as well as git, Bash, and SQL. We > had a few participants who voiced their displeasure at covering > anything

Re: [Discuss] Outreach misconception about Data and Software Carpentry as piece of software instead of skills

2016-04-12 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi, > I'm usually the first point of contact for general public inquiries > about SWC & DC and don't think I've seen anything like this. I should had make clear that what I described happend on a cold-call scenario when you send a email to someone that could be interested in Data or Software Carp

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

2016-04-14 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi Karin, > 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? Except for the last one there is http://groups.google.com/. Depending of the plans for the email list y

Re: [Discuss] informal capstones

2016-04-18 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi Christina, > It has been a few months since I taught a workshop, so this might be > outdated. My comments relate to the mid-2015 version of the > python-inflammation lesson. I have found that that lesson is too long > to fit into a single quarter, so have experimented with augmenting the > less

Re: [Discuss] New Python Maintainer

2016-04-18 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi Azalee, thanks for all the help with the Python lesson. > I am please to announce that Valentina Staneva will be taking over the > role of maintaining the Python lessons with Trevor Bekolay. Hi Valentina, welcome! Cheers, Raniere ___ Discuss mail

Re: [Discuss] Discrepancy between .md and .html in swcarpentry/git-novice

2016-04-23 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi Bennet, > Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place or something, but I think that > the .md file at > > https://github.com/swcarpentry/git-novice/blob/gh-pages/07-github.md > > should have the same text and such as the rendered files at > > http://swcarpentry.github.io/git-novice/07-github.html We

Re: [Discuss] Discrepancy between .md and .html in swcarpentry/git-novice

2016-04-23 Thread Raniere Silva
> So, Jekyll does not process the files at > > https://github.com/swcarpentry/git-novice No. We are using Pandoc plus some Python scripts. The rules are on the Makefile. Raniere ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://list

[Discuss] PyCon UK 2016

2016-04-27 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi, if you are planning to submit one Data or Software Carpentry workshop to PyCon UK 2016, http://2016.pyconuk.org/cfp/, please contact me. Cheers, Raniere ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.o

Re: [Discuss] using dotfiles as an introduction to git?

2016-05-04 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi Eric, for intermediate students (that are familiar with whoami, ls, cd, cp, mv, rm) using dotfiles as an introduction to Git should be great. But for novice students I would stay with a .txt file because it will save time to explain dotfiles concepts and avoid students problems with .bashrc. C

Re: [Discuss] Numpy as the first section in the Python lessons?

2016-05-05 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi Alexandre, > I am preparing for the first time the python-novice-inflammation > lesson. Great. :-) If you want to talk with someone try to attend the discussion sessions or email mentor...@lists.software-carpentry.org. Pleople on the mentoring committee are happy to help you. > I am also goin

Re: [Discuss] off-list Re: Numpy as the first section in the Python lessons?

2016-05-05 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi Alex, > I am going to teach, Great. :-) > but this is going to be in Lund, Sweden. I hope that you have a awesome time on your first workshop. > I will probably prepare another one in Munich in the second half of > September. Thanks for that. > I am also worried that the workshops in Euro

Re: [Discuss] Please share old flyers and promotional materials from workshops

2016-05-30 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi Erin, > I'm working on drafting up some one-page promotional materials for DC > and SWC for different audiences. I'd love to have some materials to > compare with - preferably as many as possible. If you have any old (or > current) flyers for workshops or any other DC/SWC event or pitch, > plea

[Discuss] EuroSciPy 2016

2016-05-31 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi all, are you planning to attend EuroSciPy 2016, https://www.euroscipy.org/2016/? If yes, 1. do you have interest to delivery our Python lesson? It will not be a Software Carpentry workshop! 2. do you have interest to work on our Python lesson during one sprint? Cheers, Raniere __

Re: [Discuss] Can't get html to build from markdown [appeal for help]

2016-06-04 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi Gerard, >> Steps to recreate the problem: >> >> $ git clone https://github.com/gcapes/git-course.git >> $ cd git-course >> $ make preview I didn't had any issue. I also try $ make -B preview and no problem. >> pandoc -s -t html \ >> --smart \ >> --mathjax \ >>

Re: [Discuss] Can get html to build from markdown! [victory]

2016-06-05 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi Gerard, > Thanks both for the suggestions. > > Editing my Makefile to include the absolute path didn't fix things: > > Updating Pandoc manually did the trick. I was using the version from > the package manager (and had checked for updates there, but only > there). > > Thanks very much - saved m

Re: [Discuss] Teaching Unix shell with a synced file window - feedback

2016-06-20 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi Andrew, > I've done a short demo script (https://github.com/lonsbio/data-shell) > of using the Unix shell with a Finder window synced to the current > directory. I'm not sure if this even good idea, or has been tried > before, but I thought it would at least be interesting to do a proof > of co

[Discuss] Sprints on August 27 at EuroSciPy

2016-07-19 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi, if you are planning to attend EuroSciPy this year, https://www.euroscipy.org/2016/, I invite you to take part on the Software Carpentry sprit that will happen on August 27. EuroSciPy organizers said [1] that if you only want to attend the sprint you don't need to buy the tickets for the confe

Re: [Discuss] Preferred communication tool used during teaching

2016-08-06 Thread Raniere Silva
> (ii) Slack has introduced some kind of throttling of adding new users: > they will only invite new users to a Slack forum if at least 50% of > the previous invitations have accepted. I ran into this at about 40 or > 50 participants. This was not the case in June 2015, but had been > introduced be

Re: [Discuss] Excel errors.... (Tiffany Timbers)

2016-08-29 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi, > Emily Jane asked a good question about what are the other options, aside from > Excel, Libre Office, or text editors as a means for data entry. > > Forms, whose output can later be accessed as tabular data (e.g., CSV), are a > solution I have used and liked. Proprietary database software, su

Re: [Discuss] Teaching Git with Github Desktop

2016-09-06 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi Matthew, > I searched the list history and didn't see a similar topic already posted, so > apologies if this is a rehash of a previous conversation. > > I'm going to be teaching a version of the git novice lessons next week to an > audience that does not feel comfortable on the command line. My

Re: [Discuss] Teaching Git with Github Desktop

2016-09-06 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi Steven, >> My two cents: the git command line interface is practically broken. I think >> there's consensus on this, especially on this list. As such, I'm strongly in >> favour of teaching git by GUI, because by and large GUIs have done a good job >> of simplifying the process of interacting wi

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

2016-09-21 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi Leighton, > 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? I believe that th

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

2016-09-21 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi Nelle, thanks for you tips to Leighton. > - Make sure your material are accessible (in that case, readable with > a screenreader). Schema should be avoided. Text is fine. Most pdf are > accessible, most *simple* html is as well, but fancy javascript can be > problematic. I have the feeling th

[Discuss] Fwd: Fortran Modernisation workshop at the University of Manchester

2016-09-28 Thread Raniere Silva
For those that have friends that use Fortran and can't attend a Software Carpentry workshop since we still don't cover Fortran. Gerard Capes writes: > Dear Colleagues, > > This two day hands on workshop is aimed at Fortran programmers within > computational science who want to > write modern a

[Discuss] Defensive Programming with R

2016-09-30 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi all, on our Programming with Python, http://swcarpentry.github.io/python-novice-inflammation/08-defensive/, we have a "Defensive Programming" section. This section is missing on the R lesson. Any experience R instructor can let me know why? And if you have your "translation" of that lesson in

Re: [Discuss] Defensive Programming with R

2016-10-02 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi, Thanks for all the replies so far. I understand that the userbase of Python and R normally do different tasks but the request for defensive programming/unittest with R come from a possible host who as looking to best practices. > I would be up for helping with it, not that I'm an expert on R

Re: [Discuss] Prerequisites and outcomes

2016-10-03 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi, > I would agree that indeterminacy of workshops exists because SWC has > learned that not all lessons fit all disciplines or experience levels. A quick > example is that version control is a tough concept unless learners have > done at least some coding and have either lost a lot of work or br

Re: [Discuss] Defensive Programming with R

2016-10-10 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi all, thanks for a good discussion. I opened a issue, https://github.com/swcarpentry/r-novice-gapminder/issues/221, for this. Cheers, Raniere ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/d

Re: [Discuss] Local SWC Websites

2016-10-27 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi Pat, > We need to develop an online presence for the U of Michigan SWC/DC group. I > was > wondering whether anyone has examples of websites that have been developed for > local partners/chapters to announce workshops, events, etc. that we could use > as an example. > > Perhaps a long-term pro

[Discuss] Markup for div on Markdown

2016-11-01 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi, in the last two weeks some contributors to Pandoc started discussing again the markup for div at https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/168 and I thought that some instructors could be interested on leave their suggestions and/or preferences on the GitHub issue. Cheers, Raniere

[Discuss] Git Merge 2017 - February 3 to February 3, 2017 - Talk submission

2016-11-16 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi all, is anyone planning to submit a 30-minutes talk to Git Merge 2017 [1] [2] that will be host in Brussels? Git Merge will happen right before FOSDEM [3]. If anyone isn't submitting a talk I will give a shot. Deadline for submission is Nov 21, 2016 at 12:00am PST. Bests, Raniere [1]: http:/

[Discuss] GitHub introduced review requests

2016-12-07 Thread Raniere Silva
If you didn't notice the new GitHub feature on your GitHub repository you can read about it at https://github.com/blog/2291-introducing-review-requests. We will love to hear how do you want that us use this new feature. Bests, Raniere ___ Discuss mailin

[Discuss] Steering Committee 2017 - Deadline for stand up for election is today

2016-12-23 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi all, if you are planning or considering stand up for election to the Steering Committee 2017 remember that today is the last day to inform us. You can find more details at https://software-carpentry.org/blog/2016/10/Call-for-candidates-SC-2017.html. If you want to talk with someone to clear yo

[Discuss] Steering Committee 2017 - Deadline for stand up for election is today

2016-12-23 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi all, if you are planning or considering stand up for election to the Steering Committee 2017 remember that today is the last day to inform us. You can find more details at https://software-carpentry.org/blog/2016/10/Call-for-candidates-SC-2017.html. If you want to talk with someone to clear yo

Re: [Discuss] One page syllabus for workshop

2016-12-25 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi David, > Pitching a potential workshop in Riyadh in spring of 2017 and looking for a > one > page pitch document with summary of core syllabus. Does such a document > already > exist? If not I will be happy to craft one... What type of document are you looking for? We have some "old" and a l

Re: [Discuss] Shell Extras lesson: Porting to new template and related questions

2017-01-19 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi Kevin, > Why, when the page detailing the Mailman lists, > > https://software-carpentry.org/join/#discussion > > shows the discuss@ list as > > unmoderated > > have all my messages to discuss@, so far, generated a > > Your message to Discuss awaits moderator approval > > reply ? Unmo

[Discuss] GitHub Introduced Topics

2017-02-02 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi all, GitHub introduced topics this week, https://github.com/blog/2309-introducing-topics, and our repositories need some. To keep this list low volume, please post your comments at https://github.com/swcarpentry/styles/issues/130. Thanks, Raniere __

[Discuss] Add "Edit on GitHub" link into lessons

2017-02-23 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi all, Erin Becker's last survey showed up that some people want to have the Edit on GitHub on the lessons they access over GitHub Pages. If you want to have that link or are agains it please leave your comments at https://github.com/swcarpentry/lesson-example/pull/104. Thanks, Raniere ___

Re: [Discuss] nano not found after installing gitbash

2017-03-07 Thread Raniere Silva
> At a workshop this morning a few of our learners see a “nano not found” error > after installing gitbash on Windows. > > Is this a known error/bug? We have a few bugs related with nano. :-( I had suggested to replace nano with Atom, https://atom.io/, since it works on Windows, Mac and Linux ma

Re: [Discuss] nano not found after installing gitbash

2017-03-08 Thread Raniere Silva
> I typically use Git Bash on Windows, and have students set Notepad as the > default editor for > simplicity. However, looking at the requirements 1. Git, 2. Nano, 3. Make, 4. > SQLite, that all > work from a single terminal, it seems like we should revisit using Cygwin. The main reason that w

[Discuss] Docker Containers for Reproducible Research Workshop - Call for Papers

2017-03-08 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi all, If you are interested in technology behind open and reproducible science, the Docker Containers for Reproducible Research Workshop, https://www.software.ac.uk/c4rr, being organised by the Software Sustainability Institute, https://www.software.ac.uk/, might be of interest to you. We are a

Re: [Discuss] nano not found after installing gitbash (Raniere Silva)

2017-03-09 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi Evan, Thanks for the email. Maybe we should move this discussion to https://github.com/swcarpentry/windows-installer/issues/2? Ethan and Trevor, Can you reopen the issue? I don't have permission. Cheers, Raniere ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@li

[Discuss] "first-time contributor" badge in GitHub

2017-03-24 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi all, a tweet [1] from Ben Balter showed up on my feed saying that "(GitHub) Maintainers will now see "first-time contributor" badges if it's the author's first pull request to the project. Be sure to welcome them!" I didn't find any official announcement at https://github.com/blog but I

[Discuss] markdown file with diffs

2017-03-25 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi Nathan, >> I'm a new maintainer of the python-gapminder lesson. Thanks to help us with the python-gapminder. >> Quick question - When I look at a pull request, specifically the markdown >> file with diffs (files changed), and click the "view" button on the upper >> right, I get a sort-of rend

[Discuss] nano clean the window scrool in Windows (was Re: nano not found after installing gitbash (Raniere Silva))

2017-03-30 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi all, today at the workshop, one of the our Windows learners asked me why after quit nano the previous command weren't available when scroll the window up. The learner was very annoyed to not be able to see the history. I would like to motion to change nano with Atom as the recommended/default

Re: [Discuss] nano clean the window scrool in Windows (was Re: nano not found after installing gitbash (Raniere Silva))

2017-03-31 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi all, thanks for all comments! > If you’re interested in more information about instructor preferences and > possible solutions > for the second concern (text editors for the shell lesson), you will find > this issue of interest > [2] and we hope you will continue to add comments there. > > F

Re: [Discuss] Subtitles (closed captioning) for live-coding demo videos

2017-04-04 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi all, > For Software and Data Carpentry instructor training, we use two videos > (starring yours truly) to demonstrate > do’s and dont’s for live-coding: https://youtu.be/bXxBeNkKmJE and > https://youtu.be/SkPmwe_WjeY. We are > looking for a volunteer to add subtitles/Closed Captioning to thes

Re: [Discuss] nano clean the window scrool in Windows (was Re: nano not found after installing gitbash (Raniere Silva))

2017-04-04 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi Michael, Thanks for your email. > Please also consider MSYS2 or conda (which repackages MSYS2). Either offers > all the > benefits of cygwin, but also handles Windows native paths more intelligently, > lowering the > cognitive load. I created https://github.com/swcarpentry/workshop-template

[Discuss] EuroPython 2017

2017-04-19 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi all, I and Mateusz Kuzak wish to organise a panel during EuroPython 2017, https://ep2017.europython.eu/en/, about teaching "research programming". We are looking for two to four instructors that are planning to attend EuroPython 2017 to take part on this panel. As mention on EuroPython 2017 we

Re: [Discuss] Teaching Python via CLI or Jupyter

2017-05-12 Thread Raniere Silva
> The other talk is a shorter talk (~20 minutes, incuding Q&A) about > the > differences teaching Python via straight command line compared to > teaching > from the Jupyter notebook.  When I've taught for the Carpentries, > I've > always used Jupyter.  In other contexts, I've taught strictly from >

[Discuss] EuroPython 2017 - Software Carpentry Help Desk

2017-05-12 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi all, I and Mateusz received the accept notification for our proposal of a help desk during EuroPython 2017. On Fri, 2017-05-12 at 14:15 +0200, Alexander Hendorf wrote: > Dear Raniere and Mateusz, > > I'm writing to you on behalf of the EuroPython 2017 program work group. > We are very happy t

Re: [Discuss] Seeking technology for realtime sharing of notebooks

2017-05-31 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi Titus, There was a service call DataJoy [1], now close, that could be relevant. I heard good things from Mike Croucher about Collaborative Calculation in the Cloud (COCALC) [2], previous know as SageMathCloud. I don't know if they have the features that Bill is looking for. Raniere [1]: https://

Re: [Discuss] One-day syllabi using Carpentry material

2017-06-01 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi Kari, > Does anyone have a one-day workshop syllabi based on Carpentry > material? I don't. > Myself and two other instructors are writing an abstract to do a one- > day > pre-con workshop at the Professional Development Conference for the > National Society of Black Engineers. We'd like to cov

[Discuss] June Community Call?

2017-06-14 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi, the Software Carpentry Calendar has a "Community Call" schedule for tomorrow but I didn't saw any information on the website or this list. In addition, the etherpad for the "Community Call" is empty. Could anyone confirm or cancel the "Community Call"? Thanks, Raniere_

Re: [Discuss] Credit for lesson contributors

2017-07-18 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi Kate, Thanks for your email. > If you've contributed to any of Software Carpentry's lessons in the > near or > recent past, please take a moment to fill out this quick (5 question) > Google Form: https://goo.gl/forms/RBfbPmfirwAdjUcN2 > > This information will be used to make authorship attribu

[Discuss] Proposal to improve images on next lesson release

2017-08-01 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi all, We are trying to not make any drastic change on the style/template but keep improving it each release. For the next release, December 2017, I would like to improve how we display images and for that I created http s://github.com/swcarpentry/styles/issues/161. Comments from everyone are wel

[Discuss] Fwd: FOSTER - call for trainers to share their experiences in a book sprint

2017-08-02 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi, members of this list could be interested to apply to participate authoring the handbook on Open Science training mention below. Cheers, Raniere Forwarded Message > From: Joy Davidson > Subject: [rda-edu-ig] FOSTER - call for trainers to share their > experiences in a book

[Discuss] Applications to the Software Sustainability Institute's Fellowship Programme 2018 are now open

2017-08-25 Thread Raniere Silva
please register your interest. Further informationIn the meantime, if you have questions about the Programme, please contact Raniere Silva, Institute Community Officer at fellows-managem...@software.ac.uk. Help us spread the word—Feel free to distribute this email or this flyer to your network, or

[Discuss] Diversity & Inclusion in Scientific Computing (DISC)

2017-09-21 Thread Raniere Silva
ober. I know that many instructors are interested in improve inclusion among their community and this looks a great opportunity to share our experience. Maybe who attend the unconference could report back during CarpentryCon. Raniere Silva signature.asc Description: This is a digitally si

[Discuss] Hacktoberfest

2017-09-28 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi, Is any of the maintainers interested to take part on Hacktoberfest? From the website rules, we need to 1. Apply the label ”Hacktoberfest” to issues in your GitHub project that are ready for new contributors to work on. 2. If you receive “spammy” pull requests, please let us know by applyin

[Discuss] Software Sustainability Fellowship Programme 2018: Launch Webinar Highlights & Recording

2017-09-29 Thread Raniere Silva
both the Fellows and the Institute.Fellows are drawn from a wide range of areas, experience, and career stages (www.software.ac.uk/fellows). The Fellowship is open to UK based applicants. To find out more about the programme, visit bit.ly/fellowship-programme. -- Raniere Silva Community

[Discuss] Software Sustainability Institute's Fellowship Programme 2018 - Applications closing soon

2017-10-06 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi all, if you are based in the UK, this message is for you. Applications for the Software Sustainability Institute Fellowship Programme 2018 close on Monday, 9th October 2017 at 23:59 BST. This is a great opportunity to help you with Software Carpentry, Data Carpentry or Library Carpentry work

Re: [Discuss] Teaching R

2017-10-16 Thread Raniere Silva
After a long discussion with Anna Krystalli and some work using R reviewed by Mario Antonioletti, I got convinced that we should teach Tidyverse to novices because it solves some R issues. One example is to use readr instead of native R read.XXX function because it fix the conversion of white sp

Re: [Discuss] Teaching R

2017-10-16 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi François, > We are teaching the tidyverse in the Data Carpentry R ecology lesson. We > recently transitioned to using read_csv and write_csv instead of the > equivalent functions that come with R. We are keeping some of the syntax > and notation of the base R programming because even if the tid

[Discuss] Release candidate for next (v9.3.0) lesson template

2017-11-05 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi all, We have in place a new release candidate for our lesson template. If you visit http://swcarpentry.github.io/lesson-example/, you will see the release candidate in action. Among the changes, we have "offline" navigation, better style for keyboard keys and better page of figures. A full

[Discuss] A one day conversation for open source software sustainers - the report

2017-11-06 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi all, I came across this report about open source software sustainability and though it was interest and worth sharing. A summary is available here. Cheers, Raniere signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Discuss maili

Re: [Discuss] FW: Welcome to the new Firefox

2017-11-14 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi Amy, Thanks for the issue. A pull request to https://github.com/swcarpentry/workshop-template would be welcome. Maneesha, Sorry to copy on this email. Please redirect my request to the correct person. Could you contact the leader instructor of workshops in the short future that will teach

[Discuss] Can you volunteer 10 minutes?

2017-11-17 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi all, as I mentioned before, I have a lesson template release candidate in place. I added syntax highlight, thanks to @naught101, for the next release. I will not add any new feature for this release. If you have 10 minutes to volunteer today, please have a look at the lesson template on GitH

Re: [Discuss] teaching programming in secondary school

2017-12-06 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi Olav, Please have a look at https://www.codeforlife.education/. Is the best platform that I encounter so far because it start with block-based coding but make the transition to Python very smooth. Raniere > ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.so

Re: [Discuss] Git installation

2017-12-17 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi Azalee, Thanks for the information. I created https://github.com/swcarpentry/workshop-template/issues/454 to keep track of it. If anyone has any information about this problem, please leave a comment in the previous link. Raniere > ___ Discuss ma

Re: [Discuss] Citing Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry

2017-12-19 Thread Raniere Silva
> What’s the best way to cite Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry Maybe not the correct one, but I would cite Wilson G. Software Carpentry: lessons learned [version 1; referees: 3 approved]. F1000Research 2014, 3:62 (doi: 10.12688/f1000research.3-62.v1) Raniere_

Re: [Discuss] Eventbrite waitlist

2018-01-25 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi Pat, > We were wondering whether anyone else is noticing a weird (to us) behavior > using Eventbrite with waitlists. Say we have a workshop set up and we create > 30 tickets. Those sell out and we then get a > waitlist. Feeling ambitious, we create an additional 15 tickets. > Alternatively, o

Re: [Discuss] Eventbrite waitlist

2018-01-25 Thread Raniere Silva
> Thanks everyone - does anyone know of an automated alternative to Eventbrite? > This seems like a somewhat critical feature… https://ti.to I used it as a attendee to many conferences last year (e.g. PyCon UK, EuroPython, MozFest). You might want to try it. I don't know how their waitlist work

[Discuss] GitHub's multiple issue and pull request templates

2018-01-26 Thread Raniere Silva
Good news from GitHub team: https://github.com/blog/2495-multiple-issue-and-pull-request-templates. I created https://github.com/swcarpentry/styles/issues/201 to keep track of any template that our community want to have. At the moment, we are only using the templates to remind future instructo

[Discuss] Collaborations Workshop 2018: keynote speakers, sponsors and activities

2018-02-23 Thread Raniere Silva
tbrite. We look forward to seeing you there! Please feel free to forward this email to any relevant contacts. Best wishes, -- Raniere Silva Community Officer, Software Sustainability Institute +441612753301 http://www.software.ac.uk/ ___ Disc

Re: [Discuss] Default git/python lesson order

2018-02-27 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi Iñigo, > We noticed that, since our last SC workshop a few months ago, lesson > order has changed in the workshop webpage template from > > (1) bash / git + python(I) / python(II) > > to > > (2) bash / python(I) + git /python(II) https://swcarpentry.github.io/workshop-template/ doesn't sh

Re: [Discuss] Default git/python lesson order

2018-02-27 Thread Raniere Silva
Software Carpentry doesn't enforce a order for the lesson be taught. You must teach Bash, Git and best practices in one language (normally Python or R). The order can be adjusted based on the audience. I taught in both scenarios that you described and I can't say that I noticed a big difference

Re: [Discuss] Git lesson through RStudio?

2018-03-14 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi Abhijit, The Software Carpentry "bylaws" only mentioned that you must teach a version control system. It could be Git, Mercurial, SVN or another one. In terms of learners experience during the lesson, I was helping on a web development workshop and I noticed that different users had differen

Re: [Discuss] conda and Git BASH

2018-03-19 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi Damien, I don't remember the details of the Git Bash PATH but you probably need to change it to include Conda. Cheers, Raniere > ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] introduction to SWC

2018-03-19 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi Rayna, Katy did a voice over in 2015 introducing Software Carpentry. https://github.com/swcarpentry/slideshows Cheers, Raniere > ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss

[Discuss] One weeks until the Collaborations Workshop 2018 (CW18) kicks off. Register Now!

2018-03-19 Thread Raniere Silva
The clock is ticking away and this is your last chance to register on the CW18 Eventbrite page. -- Raniere Silva Community Officer, Software Sustainability Institute +441612753301 http://www.software.ac.uk/ id="-x-evo-selection-start-marker"> _

Re: [Discuss] Class size for workshops

2018-04-25 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi all, my experience as organiser and instructor is that the room used for teaching is more important than the class size (given the same ratio of students and helpers). If you have a room where helpers can walk easily and that instructors need to not direct face the projector this will impact

Re: [Discuss] More questions about workshop class size...

2018-04-30 Thread Raniere Silva
> I didn't hear a lot of strong opinions about a lower limit. What arepeople's > thoughts there? Would you want to teach a workshop for less than10 people? > Less than 5 people? For < 10 people it would only make sense for me if those learners belong to a group that I would strong collaborate

[Discuss] GitHub Issue template improvements

2018-05-03 Thread Raniere Silva
GitHub announced yesterday some improvements on issue template that might be useful for Instructor Training, see https://blog.github.com/2018-05-02-issue-template-improvements/. Raniere___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.software-carpentry.org http:

Re: [Discuss] Should we use reticulate?

2018-05-14 Thread Raniere Silva
Hi Tim, > a slightly left field suggestion: maybe use something like thebelab orjuniper > to make the code examples executable (and automatically generateoutput)? > Having it editable and runnable from the browser is an anti-feature for > youbut maybe the same snippet of JS can be used to just do

Re: [Discuss] Should we use reticulate?

2018-05-15 Thread Raniere Silva
> I'm fairly recent to this list, so I've probably missed it, but why not > Jupyter notebooks? 1. You can't edit Jupyter Notebooks on GitHub.2. You can't diff Jupyter Notebooks on GitHub.3. You can't have nest cells in Jupyter Notebooks (we need this for exercises). I know that I mentioned Git

Re: [Discuss] Should we use reticulate?

2018-05-15 Thread Raniere Silva
> Actually, you can cleanly commit changes to Jupyter notebooks havebeautiful > diffs using the nbstripout python package. I didn't know the package. Thanks for it. But we I'm talking about doing things directly on GitHub web interface. So far, any diff on GitHub pull request view will be somet

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