Generic introduction to Galaxy

[chrisbarnettster]

A GTN intro that showcases Galaxy and is not bio-specific. Should work for climate, compchem and all other communities.

Specifically avoid too specific tools.

@yvanlebras @annefou

[annefou]

And showing what is the Galaxy ecosystem rather than presenting Galaxy as a GUI only.

[nagoue]

Should consider what is Galaxy from user, developer and admin point of views

[yvanlebras]

All right! Let's rock guys! I am thinking about using the Galaxy 101 tutorial as a basis, and instead of using bed files, genomic oriented things, using only generic text tools, notably for the join step

[yvanlebras]

Should consider what is Galaxy from user, developer and admin point of views

In a first approach, I think we can focus on user

[annefou]

I would really like to have a short into (a few slides) on what is Galaxy (from a general point of view), explaining Galaxy ecosystem.

[nsoranzo]

@annefou You can add them to https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/topics/introduction/slides/introduction.html or in a separate slide deck.

[yvanlebras]

I would really like to have a short into (a few slides) on what is Galaxy (from a general point of view), explaining Galaxy ecosystem.

it already exists ;) https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/topics/introduction/slides/introduction.html

[annefou]

Ok but if this is what is Galaxy then we can forget the climate community. From my point of view these slides are not showing what is the Galaxy ecosystem.

[yvanlebras]

It's quite agnostic no ? What do you mean ?

[tnabtaf]

Some links:

• Community Statistics Page
• Backing stats in Google Spreadsheets
  • This is a work in process. Readable by all; for Write access, please send your Google ID to @tnabtaf.
• GalaxyProject.eu's Stats page
• OpenHUB's project stats page - focuses on code.

[olanag1]

Some ideas from CoFest, that may pass to the final presentation :

There is a place for everyone to join the galaxy community

1. End-User benefits :
   • a user interface to execute the analysis
   • support from the community
   • history of complex multi-staged analysis contributions :
   • training support
   • providing your methods and tools to the community
2. Admin benefits :
   • help others to execute tasks contributions :
   • support users to install particular tools -maintain the infrastructure
3. Developers
   benefits :
   • active community exchange
   • visibility (quoting & citations): you will be better cited
   • as it's opensource, enhance collaborative work
   • more powerful results contributions :
   • make a more robust code in collaboration with others
   • maintenance power
   • the usefulness of your work: has users behind
   • get feedback
   • with git it is easy to improve the code and add more advanced features

There is a place for everyone. You can easily use galaxy and contribute to the growing galaxy community.

[chrisbarnettster]

WIP PR #1473

[chrisbarnettster]

Great idea from @MoHeydarian - use a well known dataset such as mtcars.

[yvanlebras]

I like it! But ITM I was thinking about proposing 2 possibilities:

• "classical": using a defined dataset, and using a well known one is a great idea
• "new way": using a BYOD concept, asking to trainees to come with there own data BUT with a particular "content", something matching a Galaxy workflow... For example, asking to trainees to come with 2 tabular files with a common id column so we can work on joining these 2 files and applying text manipulation / filter operation on it...

[nagoue]

Iris dataset can be used in training: http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Iris => we have to make a copy to zenodo (no in it yet) it may be better than mtcars as it is a bit bigger. We can use it for text manipulation and data vizualisation.

[yvanlebras]

Ecology compatible and the name of my boat, I like it like it ;)

[annefou]

@nagoue @yvanlebras @chrisbarnettster anyone interested in working on this issue for the next Galaxy Training Network day? (12th September 2019, see https://galaxyproject.org/events/2019-09-gtn/)

[nagoue]

Yeap, good for me

[hexylena]

Done! :tada: thanks everyone!