How do we want this repo to change once the first cycle of the reading group is done?

dcwalk commented 5 years ago

Are there ways we want to change this repository once the reading group concludes?

Do we change it into more of a static site with links into the call notes/calls?
Does it become more a 'live' coordinating place and we refactor for an ongoing reading group? (i.e., gathering themes, searching out and adding potential readings?
Are there any ways this could better serve as a resource for us and others stumbling upon this later?

dcwalk commented 5 years ago

One thing that would be nice:

have a sharable bibliography of all of the things we read!
- I started one in #14, which I am happy to keep up to date because it fit my personal flow
- (however) there are other, and arguably better ways to create and maintain one: Zotero, an open-source "free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research"

b5 commented 5 years ago

To me the bibliography is most important as a near-term goal given you already have a workable PR open 😄, I'd love to see #14 merged

Adding a static site to this repo to make things a little more presentable for others is a great idea IMHO but that'll take a second. If anyone can find time this is a perfect candidate for using existing theme from a favourite static site generator like hugo/jeckyll and add some light DT branding, PR it in and voila!

From there I'd personally commit to putting time into editing the notes & pulling from recordings to synthesize a meeting into content that would more succinctly benefit others. We could use a PR to see if others like the way that shapes up.

Mr0grog commented 5 years ago

Adding a static site to this repo to make things a little more presentable for others is a great idea IMHO but that'll take a second.

I guess I’ll advocate the other side of this one a little bit ;)

Is having a proper website rather than a well-groomed readme and repo (which we certainly should keep on top of) really going to add a lot here? Do we need to market this reading group or just provide good access to understandable materials/kits/etc? What are the really valuable things we can do with full HTML, JavaScript, or dynamic forms that add a lot to this resource? GitHub’s markdown rendering can get us pretty far with way less effort (let’s not underestimate how much extra effort someone can pour into a nice web site once they’ve gotten started). Intentionally avoiding making web pages is one of the clever things about “awesome-*” repos, for example.

👍 agree w/ @b5 on the bibs. They are not a thing I’ve ever used much, though (probably to my detriment!), so not sure I have much valuable to say on tools like Zotero.

I'd personally commit to putting time into editing the notes & pulling from recordings to synthesize a meeting into content that would more succinctly benefit others.

I think this would be great. We should PR just the first meeting to work out a good format, then more people can do the rest in parallel.

Does it become more a 'live' coordinating place and we refactor for an ongoing reading group? (i.e., gathering themes, searching out and adding potential readings?

I really like this idea. (Actually, I had naïvely assumed this was the plan all along.)

dcwalk commented 5 years ago

I should have been more careful with words, by into more of a static site with links into the call notes/calls I didn't mean explicitly/only rolling a website, more like how the readme was structured and the presentation of the first cycle of calls/notes

lightandluck commented 5 years ago

+1 to synthesizing notes and recordings into condensed content

+1 live coordinating site. Seems like we're continuing the reading group in some form and this repo has already served well in coordinating

+1 giving the repo a little formatting love

I've never used bibtex files, so I feel I would be really bad at keeping that updated, but not opposed to others maintaining that

dcwalk commented 5 years ago

Okay, I think this convo and the retrospective helped answer questions around this, in #38 I'm doing a big 2018 clean up which should help set the stage for coordinating 2019.

I'll ping you all for reviews there 😂

Frijol commented 5 years ago

Is there more we'd like to work on from this issue as we launch into the 2019 semester?

dcwalk commented 5 years ago

It seems like we've moved out actionable items from here. I think probably good to close

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How do we want this repo to change once the first cycle of the reading group is done? #24