Where to host notebooks?

[drvdputt]

The current example notebooks are still hidden somewhere in the jwebbinar repo (https://github.com/spacetelescope/jwebbinar_prep). To make matters more complicated, the updated notebook is found in my fork of the same repo.

We should have a dedicated space to host these notebooks (regardless of whether it's a live ipython notebook environment, or just a file download).

A couple of suggestions

• In a directory "notebooks" of the main pahfit repo. Advantage: can ensure that the notebooks are kept up to date at every commit. Disadvantage: introduces dependencies on jupyter, need for sample data.
• In a separate repository (e.g. PAHFITbooks). Advantage: we can add dependencies and extra materials as we wish, without affecting PAHFIT itself. Disadvantage: at every PAHFIT update, we need to remember to update these notebook. And we need to write separate install instructions, some documentation/overview of the notebooks.

[jdtsmith]

Best would be somewhere live!

[drvdputt]

I have created this https://github.com/drvdputt/PAHFITbooks, where two notebooks can be downloaded with some extra tools.

For the live hosting, we can look into Binder, I remember that there was an astropy workshop that used it. https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/astropy/astropy-workshop/HEAD. It directly connects to a git branch, and it will look for files like requirements.txt to find the dependencies and set up a docker container in which the notebook can run.

[jdtsmith]

Great. Why not host these under the PAHFIT organization on GH? I'm happy to create a repo and make you co-owner.

[jdtsmith]

Just created https://github.com/PAHFIT/PAHFITBooks and made you a maintainer. Private for now and we can open it when we are good with the setup.

[drvdputt]

Good, I have pushed my main branch to this repo. Keeping the one one drvdputt around for now, for sharing. We should add a link to PAHFIT/PAHFITbooks (and any live hosting if we have it) in the readme of PAHFIT once it goes public.

[jdtsmith]

Sounds good. I'll close this for now, can reopen one later for live notebooks.