Make Progress on The Carpentries Incubator Program

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Repository of public information regarding the progress of The Carpentries 3-5 year strategic plan.

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Make Progress on The Carpentries Incubator Program #19

Closed kariljordan closed 3 years ago

kariljordan commented 4 years ago

Under our current grant funding, we have specific obligations on developing The Carpentries Incubator. This includes:

[x] Minimum viable product platform, consisting of: a stable repository for lessons; an indexing system for locating relevant materials; and a clear pathway for users to submit content.
[ ] User testing of lesson template prototype.
[ ] Checklists for lesson approval
[ ] Metadata schema for lessons (consistent with TeSS)

ErinBecker commented 4 years ago

The goal:

[x] Minimum viable product platform, consisting of: a stable repository for lessons; an indexing system for locating relevant materials; and a clear pathway for users to submit content.

Has been met as follows:

stable repository for lessons (https://github.com/carpentries-incubator)
indexing system using GitHub Topic tags (https://carpentries.org/community-lessons/)
clear pathway for users to submit content (https://github.com/carpentries-incubator/proposals#readme)

Note that we intend to significantly improve the indexing system! This is just a note that we've filled the requirement for the "minimum viable product".

ErinBecker commented 4 years ago

We also have a:

[ ] Checklist for lesson approval

However, this will be significantly fleshed out and added to, so I am not marking this complete at this time.

tobyhodges commented 3 years ago

User testing of lesson template prototype.

@zkamvar has begun alpha testing of the template prototype, with further testing phases expected in the coming months. Testing and refinement of the template will be an ongoing process (see the constant evolution of the current template as an example of this) but I will revisit and mark this item as complete when the defined alpha and beta testing phases have been completed.

Checklists for lesson approval

More complete checklists have been drafted since @ErinBecker's previous update, but I will not mark this complete until they have been published (expected in May).

Metadata schema for lessons (consistent with TeSS)

We have developed a metadata schema consistent with the (draft) Bioschemas TrainingMaterial specification used by TeSS and other platforms. Lesson metadata will be incorporated into the new lesson template at the appropriate time, at which point I will be able to check this item off too.

tobyhodges commented 3 years ago

I have merged the tasks described here into the other open issue on this topic, #22, to make it easier to track progress on The Carpentries Incubator project as a whole. I will close this in favour of that unified Issue.