Useful Links

• Internal
• External
  • Community Building
  • Teaching
  • Tools

Internal

These resources contain important information about the configuration and maintenance of various Bio-IT resources.

• Git Admin repository
  • internal access only
  • contains configurations and setup documentation for the internal GitLab system, Mattermost chat, and continuous integration server/runner
• Community Documentation repository
  • the source files for this site
  • see the page about GitLab Pages for more information
• Bio-IT Blogs repository
  • see the page about GitLab Pages for more information

External

These links point to various resources that we have found useful.

Community Building

• Resources from the Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement
• The Carpentries Community Cookbook - a collection of resources and how-to guides for running activities to build local peer learning communities
• ROpenSci Blog

Teaching

• Teaching Tech Together - Greg Wilson’s book on best practices for teaching programminga nd other computing skills. Includes a chapter on building a community of practice. Free to read online.
• Life Science Trainers
• MyBinder

Tools

• CryptPad: like etherpad, CryptPad allows collaborative note-taking, and includes an option to optimise the pad for code by including line numbers and a monospaced font.
• HackMD: another collaborative authoring tool, this time set up for Markdown. HackMD allows you to display the raw MD, the rendered version, or both in a split display, and to save documents in a collection to refer back to in the future.
• Time and Date: convert meeting times between timezones; announce events across timezones; find out how likely it is that your collaboartors are awake right now; etc
• Cuckoo Remote Timer: a shared countdown timer, useful for remote co-working sessions and meetings. Start a countdown timer and everyone connected to the page receives a notification when the countdown ends.