Course planning and details - 2024-12-10

Location: Meeting Center Odense
Date: 2024-12-10
Pre-course assignments dates (\~3-5 hrs to complete, suggest they dedicate a full day to it):
- Start: Nov. 10, 2024
- Due: Dec. 05, 2024

Instructors

Instructors/helpers: @signekb, @Isabellvse, @AndersAskeland, @lwjohnst86

Before the course, please review the CONTRIBUTING guide, Code of Conduct, and the Tips for instructors or helpers in the Guides website.

Days	Session topic	Instructor
Day 1	Introduction to the course	@lwjohnst86
Day 1	Smoother project-based collaboration	@lwjohnst86
Day 2	Creating automatic analysis pipelines	@signekb
Day 2	A general approach to doing statistical analyses	@Isabellvse
Day 3	Efficiently running many analyses at once	@AndersAskeland

Several of the below tasks (for the admin/lead instructor) can be done using the r3admin package.

[ ] Nov. 10, 2024: (Optional) Send an calendar invite to registered participants with link to pre-course tasks and website.
[x] Nov. 26, 2024: Send a calendar invite to instructors/helpers for course location (with planning issue link), dinner locations, and post-course debrief.
- Include registered participants with link to pre-course tasks and website.
[x] \~Nov. 26, 2024: Pre-course instructor meeting:
- Go briefly over Instructor and Helper with new instructors.
- Mention about post-course debrief (described in the Guides site).
- (For intro course) Have all instructors/helpers give their GitHub user names.
[x] Dec. 02, 2024: Send a reminder to everyone to complete tasks.
[ ] Dec. 05, 2024: Check that all participants have completed pre-course material.
[ ] Dec. 07, 2024: Get participants into groups (\~3-4 people per group).
[ ] Dec. 07, 2024: Assign instructors to groups.
[ ] Dec. 07, 2024: Open up the Google Forms feedback survey

[ ] Set up repo to host code-along that instructors will use (course dependent).

[ ] Close the Google Forms feedback survey
[ ] Update git tag and release it (r3admin::create_course_tag())
[ ] Update course metadata in r3admin/data/courses.yaml
[ ] Update instructor/helper metadata in r3admin/data/courses.yaml and r3admin/data/people/
[ ] Update Zenodo DOI