Hackathon Information

This event aims at developing training materials in life sciences to be used in Data Carpentry workshops and other training that is using a similar teaching model. Data Carpentry workshops are aimed at researchers in the life sciences at all career stages. The workshops are designed to teach basic concepts, skills and tools for working more effectively with data. Data Carpentry workshops are an example-driven two-day workshops during which short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own research problems during and between sessions. See the Data Carpentry website for more info.

More information is shared using http://datacarpentry.etherpad.mozilla.org/elixir-nl.

Hackathon organization & preparation

Participants will self-organize in teams centered around shared interests. Depending on interests and ideas that overlap or intersect, teams will forms to work on some of these selected ideas. At the beginning of the second day, a representative of each team will report on their project. Teams are fluid. If someone wants to switch projects during the hackathon (e.g., because their expertise is needed for a short period of time) it's perfectly acceptable.

For suggestions on materials development and contribution guidelines, please see the wik.

We will also be using the Etherpad.

We use GitHub to organize ideas and store the material being developed during the workshop. If you don't already have one, please create a GitHub account. It's free and only takes a few seconds. To participate in the hackaton, it is recommended that you be familiar with Git, but if you are not, you can make use of GitHub's web interface or the wiki.

To best prepare for the hackathon, it is a good idea to come with at least an idea of the kind of project you would like to work on. By opening an issue in the Data Carpentry Repository, you will let other people know of your ideas before the meeting. This will facilitate collaborations during the hackathon. Feel free to let people know that you are interested to work with them on a topic they proposed, or offer suggestions to their ideas. Be prepared to provide a 5 minute pitch of your idea during the first day of the hackathon.

Practical information

Dinner Monday 22 June

Dinner Tuesday 23 June

Dinner Wednesday 24 June

Venue

Participation

This hackathon is primarily aimed at the ELIXIR project members. We invite all domain experts who are interested in and may already provide training in data handling; and who are willing to share their materials with a wider community. Participants with experience in running Data and Software Carpentry workshops are particularily encouraged to join. The contribution guidelines provide more information on the work planned for the hackathon.
The local ELIXIR Node Data and Software Coordinators will be contacting the potential participants directly but if you are interested in joining the event please contact Aleksandra Pawlik.

Suggested ideas and Scope of the hackathon

Licensing

Data Carpentry instructional material is released under a Creative Commons Attribution License. If you are contributing to Data Carpentry material, you need to agree that your contributions will be released under this license. You can choose to contribute lessons that will not be considered for inclusion in Data Carpentry, and release them under a different license. However, we encourage you to release them under a license that allows free sharing and adapting such as Creative Commons 0 or Creative Commons Attribution license.

Acknowledgements & Support

This workshop is supported by the ELIXIR project.

References and materials

Schedule