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Repo for Library Carpentry pilot at City University London, November 2015
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Call for Volunteers #4

Open drjwbaker opened 9 years ago

drjwbaker commented 9 years ago

Library Carpentry needs skilled volunteers to lead sessions, support participants as they work through tasks, help answer questions participants may have, and to contribute to lessons plans as they develop. If you are interested in being a trainer, let us know!

Note that we have some funds available to subsidise trainer travel. This will be allocated on a case by case basis.

drjwbaker commented 9 years ago

Peter Webster (tentative)

drjwbaker commented 9 years ago

Tim Sherratt (remote/tentative)

drjwbaker commented 9 years ago

Elizabeth Wickes (remote)

davanstrien commented 9 years ago

Daniel van Strien - volunteer trainer (Github)

jezcope commented 9 years ago

Not sure I'll be able to travel to London (especially four weeks in a row) but happy to contribute in any other way, especially contributing to material.

drjwbaker commented 9 years ago

@jezcope : very generous. Thank you. Any particular specialism you can bring to the party?

jezcope commented 9 years ago

I work in the HE library sector (on research data management) and I have teaching experience and a degree in computer science. I use the Unix shell and git quite a lot, and I've learned my way around OpenRefine. I'm fairly familiar with Python, but it looks like that isn't on the programme so much. Not sure exactly what you have planned but hopefully you can do something with that! :) On Wed, 13 May 2015 at 12:54 James Baker notifications@github.com wrote:

@jezcope https://github.com/jezcope : very generous. Thank you. Any particular specialism you can bring to the party?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/LibraryCarpentry/city-november-2015/issues/4#issuecomment-101639437 .

drjwbaker commented 9 years ago

Unix shell, Git, Open Refine sound exactly the sort of skills we need! I left Python out as I'm far from an expert and wouldn't know where to start teaching it in a library context...

Reckon you can make it to London to help out for one session? And if so, which one would you prefer? I'd be able to cover expenses (I hope).

drjwbaker commented 9 years ago

Quick update from me.

I've created a repo for each lesson with:

These are:

I envisage these are places where the lessons can be developed. Any/all thoughts, comments, ideas welcome. Thanks!

Pinging @peterwebster @wragge @ostephens @weaverbel

jezcope commented 9 years ago

I'd love to, but I can't commit to travelling at the moment (I'll be moving jobs next month) so don't rely on me for that. Will keep you posted.

drjwbaker commented 9 years ago

Okay. Should the new job bring the possibility of joining us for a session, do let me know,

drjwbaker commented 9 years ago

Belinda Weaver: lesson development during Mozilla Lab Global Sprint (4-5 June)

jamespjh commented 9 years ago

I may well be able to help attend as a demonstrator. Will confirm ASAP.

alixk commented 9 years ago

Happy to help with contributing to and testing lessons, and may also be able to attend as a helper or trainer.

drjwbaker commented 9 years ago

Hey @alixk: super helpful, thank you!

drjwbaker commented 9 years ago

Hi all. I have got to v0.1 stage with the Week One lesson. The lesson covers basics (such as plain text files, naming directories/files, why bother dabbling with code in a library setting, and regular expressions).

I'd be grateful if anyone with a little time could take a look and offer some comments (tasks need some refining and 'Foundations' needs some further reading):

cc @wragge @weaverbel

weaverbel commented 9 years ago

Looking great. Will have a good snoop round and give some feedback. Well done and good luck with the new job. Cheers Belinda

From: James Baker [mailto:notifications@github.com] Sent: Friday, 14 August 2015 12:33 AM To: LibraryCarpentry/city-november-2015 Cc: Belinda Weaver Subject: Re: [city-november-2015] Call for Volunteers (#4)

Hi all. I have got to v0.1 stage with the Week One lesson. The lesson covers basics (such as plain text files, naming directories/files, why bother dabbling with code in a library setting, and regular expressions).

I'd be grateful if anyone with a little time could take a look and offer some comments (tasks need some refining and 'Foundations' needs some further reading):

cc @wraggehttps://github.com/wragge @weaverbelhttps://github.com/weaverbel

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/LibraryCarpentry/city-november-2015/issues/4#issuecomment-130696744.

drjwbaker commented 9 years ago

Week Two Library Carpentry lesson now up for comment. Lesson covers manipulating, counting, and mining using the Unix shell.

As before, I'd be grateful if anyone with a little time could take a look and offer some comments. The lesson is based on a lesson I used to teach at the British Library, so I'm particularly keen for folks to look out for inconsistencies likely caused be importing the core of the lesson between venues

cc for info @gvwilson