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Agenda

  1. Introductions
  2. Overview of progress to date on sections of content:
  3. Overview of progress to date on other items:
  4. Proposals.
  5. Discussion items
  6. Next steps
    • Select moderator for next meeting
    • (Previous moderators, in reverse chronological order: Greg Wilson, Charlotte Wickham, Jonathan Dursi, Christina Koch, Luke Johnston, Damien Irving, Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher)

Minutes

Attendees: Charlotte Wickham, Greg Wilson, Damien Irving, Jonathan Dursi, Christina Koch, Luke Johnston, Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher

Action Items

  • Charlotte and Madeleine carve out joins from data manipulation lesson.
  • Greg to add guidelines for adding diagrams to README, i.e. photos of sketches OK for now.
  • Christina to review command line git.
  • Damien to open issue for discussion and suggestions on things that can be dropped in rse.
  • Christina to create issue to approach Jenny Bryan about reusing "Happy Git with R" for git setup instructions and assign to Greg.
  • Charlotte to start on novice R publishing section.
  • Christina and Madeleine brainstorm a path for novice python publishing.
  • Jonathan to file issue to cover $PATH in shell lessons.

Meeting summary

  1. Introductions

  2. Overview of progress to date on sections of content:

    • Novice R

      • Charlotte: Data manipulation reviewed, small changes to be made then ready to merge.

    • Novice Python

      • Madeleine: Data manipulation almost ready for first review. Discussion about joins: big step up in complexity, might be better in separate lesson. Action: Charlotte and Madeleine to carve out joins from data manipulation lesson.

      • Christina: version control in progress. Where do we tell people how to get set up? Greg can approach Jenny Bryan about reusing "Happy Git with R" setup instructions. Action: Christina to create issue to approach Jenny Bryan about re-using "Happy Git with R" for git setup instructions and assign to Greg.

        If anyone knows of git kraken materials (or other git materials) that may be useful add them to the issue. Also open to ideas on ways to make meaningful learning experience.

    • Intermediate

      • Luke: halfway through Integration lesson, next week will have something finished.

      • Jonathan: responded to most of review on python packaging, documenting packages will probably go elsewhere, started concept map for tesintg and validation.

      • Damien: command line git ready for review. Consists of Software Carpentry materials + branching + pull requests. Action: Christina to review.

      • Discussion: Which things in RSE goals do we still need to do? What can be dropped? Action: Damien to open issue for discussion and suggestions on things that can be dropped in rse.

      • Greg: Logging sections will be removed. Aspirational, not currently used by some core R developers. Will get started on managing preople and projects side of materials.

  3. Overview of progress to date on other items:

    Nothing to be done now.

  4. Proposals.

    None.

  5. Discussion items

    • Charlotte: Novice Publishing How much do novices need to know to get their work on the web? Go with taking HTML generated from Rmarkdown and putting in docs/ on github. No jekyll, no blogdown. Needs to cover: linking to other files, linking to static images. Action: Charlotte to start on novice R publishing section.

      What does this mean for novice python? Can we teach publishing without jupiter notebooks? Action: Christina and Madeleine brainstorm a path for novice python publishing.

    • Jonathan: $PATH in shell lesson

      Python packaging back-references $PATH being covered in shell lesson - but it isn't currently in the lesson. Should be covered in shell - how to motivate? Maybe adding $HOME/bin to $PATH for shell scripts that get used across multiple projects. Action: Jonathan to file issue to cover $PATH in shell lessons.

  6. Next steps

    • Select moderator for next meeting: Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher
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