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Agenda

  1. Introductions
  2. Overview of progress to date: Updates on exercise writing
  3. Proposals
    • #75 Confirm and close issue.
    • #8 Create file of personas and merge in?
  4. Discussion items
    • #84 Confirm and close regarding file naming
    • #77 Functional programming or at least covering map?
    • Include #70, #71, and #72 in intermediate material?
    • Which datasets are we using in the novice course?
      • #67 Dog dataset
      • #78 Carbon dioxide
      • Others?
  5. Discuss and set some timelines/milestones for each course (decide by next meeting?)
  6. Commentary/discussion: See #115.
  7. Next steps
    • Select moderator for next meeting

Minutes

Attendees: Greg Wilson, Damien Irving, Brandeis Marshall, Matt Turk, Jonathan Dursi, Luke Johnston

Progress to date:

  • Novice R: Task assignments done, no exercises or lesson notes to review yet
  • Novice Python: Task assignments done, no exercises or lesson notes to review yet
  • Intermediate: Task assignments done, progress underway on logging (Greg) and packaging (Jonathan) lessons
  • General philosophy: Try and follow the process if practical (i.e. develop exercises first and lessons later), but do whatever will get some content up fastest.

Proposals:

  • #75 passed
  • #8 passed [Greg will put personas in intro material]

Discussion:

  • Short file naming discussed in #84 adopted, with rse instead of int
  • Adopted #77
  • Suspend decisions on #70, #71, and #72 until more work has been done on the intermediate lessons. [Damien to add these suggestions to intermediate course outline]
  • Adopted #115

Timeline:

  • Have a substantial piece of work completed/ready to review before each fortnightly meeting
  • The overall goal is to have a first draft of the course completed before September
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