Add getting started and installation instructions to the welcome page

[weiji14]

Editing the front page to include a one-click Binder link to run the Jupyter notebooks, and steps for people to get a conda virtual environment set up locally for the EGU22 short course.

Once everyone has their Jupyter notebooks on the website at https://www.generic-mapping-tools.org/egu22pygmt, I'm hoping to make a quick 5-ish minute video that will introduce PyGMT very briefly and walk through how people can navigate the Jupyter Book, click on the Binder links, etc.

[weiji14]

Ok, first shot at the intro, just taking people through an outline of the course content and teaching them how to get set up on Binder or locally.

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/23487320/168953934-e58a2627-06b1-46ed-9a9c-0ce2f1d4b832.mp4

Will make another recording tomorrow morning at uni (with better lighting and a proper background) after a bit more practice. Oh, and remind myself to bump up the font size too.

[yvonnefroehlich]

@weiji14 First of all the front page looks already very nice!

However there is a small error in the installation instruction of the egu22pygmt environment at step 4 in the second line: The env is missing. For me works: condaenvcreate --name egu22pygmt --file environment.yml

Without the env I get the error: CondaValueError: could not parse 'name: egu22pygmt' in: environment.yml

[weiji14]

Glad to see that people are trying out the short course already :laughing: Thanks @yvonnefroehlich, I've fixed the command in 05fd56819cd1ccc26c01a00a2d88d0906493575b.

[weiji14]

For completeness, here's the final recording of the intro video :tada:

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/23487320/169176197-06f30c97-e926-44e8-be89-6ae703a9c608.mp4

Have already stitched the 1 intro + 4 tutorial videos together, and it just fits under 1hr 30min (let's pretend I didn't have to re-record the intro too many times). Tried doing 1080p60fps but that produced a 7GB file so no go. Did 1080p30fps and that came down to 4GB. Decided to try uploading that 4GB version but the upload seemed to stop halfway (wifi at home not strong enough). I'm doing 1080p23.98fps now and seeing if that can cut the size. Few more hours to go :relaxed:

[maxrjones]

Do you want me to see what I get with handbrake? That's the tool I've used for processing community meeting videos

[weiji14]

Do you want me to see what I get with handbrake? That's the tool I've used for processing community meeting videos

Too late, I've emailed the video in already (1080p23.8fps). It's 3.3GB though, let's just hope they're lenient enough.

[maxrjones]

Too late, I've emailed the video in already (1080p23.8fps). It's 3.3GB though, let's just hope they're lenient enough.

Sounds good, thanks for processing the video!

Also, great job on the intro! it's fantastic 🎉

[leouieda]

@weiji14 thank you for all the work you've done on this! The intro does look really good.

We can upload higher resolution videos to YouTube later since EGU had this silly restriction.