see you there :D

Welcome New Study Groups

Welcome to our newest Study Group at Rhode Island! More Study Groups are spooling up around the world; we'll note them here and add them to the Study Group Map as their first events come on line. Have you started a new group recently? Make sure to let us know so we can get you on the map!

Mozilla Study Groups Year One

With the New Year almost here, I took a minute to look back on what we've done together in our first year: you have delivered over 140 events and 46 open lesson plans at over 20 sites in less than a year. Each and every one of you has done tremendous work, and should be really proud of the communities you have helped create in your home towns and around the world. This was your energy, your skill, and your enthusiasm that built this; well done all!

To celebrate, I hope everyone has a party planned! I know Vancouver and Toronto do - this time of year is a great chance to invite your community to get together for a Hacky Hour or other get-together to look back on what you accomplished this year, thank them for participating, and reflect on how we can do even better next year.

Planning for 2016

Speaking of going even further next year, with a new semester already coming up in just a few weeks, now is a great time to figure out how we can do better than ever before; a couple of to-do's for everyone:

• Participants: We want to make contributing to Study Group as fun and rewarding as possible for you, so we're working on a draft of some Contributor Guidelines - help us out by adding any questions or challenges you've had trying to contribute or participate at the bottom of the draft, so we can try and weave in as many solutions as possible.
• Organizers: The Study Group Handbook is where we collect everyone's experience running a Study Group; it needs your input to get better! If you've helped organize a Study Group (and especially if you're just starting out!), open an issue here describing one thing you wish you'd known when you first started. By updating the Handbook to address all these, we can make starting a Mozilla Study Group even easier for all our new colleagues we'll be meeting in 2016.

Once more - a huge THANK YOU to everyone who has jumped on board with Mozilla Study Groups in its first year; this program was founded to bring people together to share their skills and experiences, and you have all helped make that a reality and a huge success - and I am confident that these past successes are only to be outdone by our future ones.

Hi everyone, we're at the Mozilla Science WOW workshop in Berlin and a few of us were discussing the idea that we'd like to also display previous events on the website.

Are there any plans to do that in the template or does anyone have a suggestion to go about this?

The SFU and Toronto groups have been contemplating using google calendars to help manage events. This feature could be pulled upstream, but first let's pull all the ongoing discussion threads together.

• @BrunoGrande patched the website to include a google calendar here - we'll pull this upstream as part of this feature.
• @theavanrossum is working on a script to automatically manage the calendar from the yml in the _posts directory.
  • but, how does this handle times? time of day isn't in the yml (which is kind of weird, now that you mention it); will probably add a time field to these stubs to solve this.

Any other ideas or concerns? cc @lannajin @mbonsma @ttimbers, this issue

When I followed the Readme.md to setup a new event I encountered a couple small issues:

1. When I tried to follow the instructions "Click on 'Issues' over on the right sidebar of your repo", I couldn't find "Issues" in the sidebar right away. I had to click "Settings" and then select "Issues" under "Features" to be able to see "Issues" in the sidebar. Only then could I click Issues to create a new event.
2. When I was creating YYYY-MM-DD-word.markdown, I originally put a lot of info after location (e.g. location: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby Campus, SSB 6134). When I did this no location showed up in the events on the webpage, it just looked like this: "Introduction to tidyr/reshape2 package in R by Remi Daigle,, 14 July 2015".

To solve the problem, I had removed all by SSB 6134, but I imagine just not having commas would also solve it and let me keep the other text (since "Hacky Hour Stadium" works ;p)?

Maybe a couple notes in the Readme.md about how to see Issues in the sidebar and not using commas in YYYY-MM-DD-word.markdown could be useful?

Study Group Meetup, Lunae Palus Hall, 15 December 2015

I feel /studyGroup and /studygroup must land to the same page, as of now only the former one is active, the later on throws a 404.

According to the RFC: Users should always consider that URLs are case-sensitive.

So we must consider redirection.

//cc @BillMills

Peter Maxwell from NeSI will be giving an introduction to the high performance computing (HPC) facilities they provide (free to all otago staff and students), how to use them, and may talk briefly about parallel R on a HPC.

As of January 1 2019, Mozilla requires that all GitHub projects include this CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md file in the project root. The file has two parts:

1. Required Text - All text under the headings Community Participation Guidelines and How to Report, are required, and should not be altered.
2. Optional Text - The Project Specific Etiquette heading provides a space to speak more specifically about ways people can work effectively and inclusively together. Some examples of those can be found on the Firefox Debugger project, and Common Voice. (The optional part is commented out in the raw template file, and will not be visible until you modify and uncomment that part.)

If you have any questions about this file, or Code of Conduct policies and procedures, please see Mozilla-GitHub-Standards or email [email protected].

(Message COC001)

Hello people!

Can you give me some event ideas?

Thanks
Towaha

Best not to confuse new users by including branches that aren't used. :)

Variables like site.github.repository_url are used in https://github.com/mozillascience/studyGroup/blob/gh-pages/_data/en.yml, but they don't seem to be expanded. (Jekyll would need to double-expand the tags that these string go into).

Not sure how this could be solved without removing the URL from _data and putting it into the template directly.

Links to the github repo in the "How to keep informed" section of the webpage seem to be broken. This was first posted in CERNStudyGroup#7

The links are to http://cernstudygroup.github.io/%7B%7B%20site.github.repository_url%20%7D%7D which looks as if the {{ site.github.repository_url }} isn't being replaced when rendering the HTML. Related to the recent upgrade of jekyll on github?

I'm stuck :(

see @radaniba's issue in the UBC chapter.

The UofT Study Group would love the calendar feature.

It would be nice if issues created for upcoming Study Group events or for lesson suggestions followed a standard format, something along the lines of:

Date: ___
Location: ___
Session format: Hacky Hour / Code-Along / Etc.
Lesson guide (if applicable): ___
Lesson materials (if applicable): ___

[BODY]

This can be implemented using GitHub's Issue templates.

See, for example, CERNStudyGroup#20 (more: https://github.com/CERNStudyGroup/cernstudygroup.github.io/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue+label%3ALesson).

Happy to create the template for approval if you think this is worth doing. :)

Welcome New Study Groups

Welcome to our newest Study Groups in Otago, New Zealand and North West University, South Africa! More Study Groups are spooling up around the world; we'll note them here and add them to the Study Group Map as their first events come on line.

September Participation Drive

For many of us, a new term is starting in the next few days - that makes this one of the most important times of the year to get the word out about your Study Group!

• Organizers, if you haven't seen it yet, check out the Planning Events section of the Handbook for advice on how to make this term smooth and successful for your group; also, there are two new email templates for doing your beginning of semester email push: one to get the word out, and a follow-up asking for instructors. Feel free to use these as is, or remix and write your own.
• Attendees, one of the best things you can do to help your organizers is bring your friends and colleagues! Everyone has a better time when they know someone in the room, and bringing new people helps get the word out, too.

Organizer's Mailing List

The Mozilla Science Lab has a new mailing list for leaders and organizers of Study Groups around the world to ask each other questions, share ideas and talk about their plans for Study Group. Sign up here if you want to be involved in leading a local Study Group - also, we'll be using that list to organize and announce monthly teleconferences for Study Group leaders to connect worldwide.

New Lesson Highlights

Here are the notes from just a few of the awesome lessons that have been delivered around the world in August. Remember, after a demo, throw the notes into a GitHub repo (or whatever format you like) and email the Science Lab with the link, so we can help you share with your colleagues around the world.

• Data Munging in R with dplyr, by Alyssa at UBC
• Introduction to biomaRt by Jeff Stafford at UBC
• Comparative Phylogenetic Analyses in R by Matt Pennell at UBC
• Automating Reproducible Analysis Pipelines with Make by Shaun Jackman at SFU
• Intro to ggplot2 by cloucks at SFU
• Plotting in Python with matplotlib by Ricardo Harripaul in Toronto

Welcome New Study Groups

Two new Study Groups got started in the last month - one at the University of Minnesota, and the Open Desk Study Group at the University of Jaffna. Welcome aboard both!

As always, check out all the Study Groups worldwide on the Study Group Map.

New Features

Three new features are landing this month:

• Many of you have asked for a less-noisy way to find out about upcoming events; the awesome team at the SFU Study Group has integrated Google Calendars into their website, and have generously contributed their changes back to the main repo. If you'd like to include Google Calendars in your Study Group, open an issue here, and I'll send you a pull request. Huge thanks to Thea Van Rossum and Bruno Grande for their work on this feature.
• Also from SFU, we're starting to webcast our lessons so people who can't be there in person can join in and participate too. Check out regular expressions (also by Bruno Grande) for an example. If you'd like to start webcasting your lessons, get in touch with me - Mozilla can help you license your webcasts fairly and accessibly.
• The University of Toronto Study Group has introduced a gallery of community members on their web page. This is a great way to highlight your community members, and let them show their support for their interests and their Study Group. Huge thanks to the tremendous Elliott Sales de Andrade for sending this feature upstream - if you'd like a community gallery for your site, open an issue here, and I'll send you a pull request.

Do you have an idea for a way to improve Study Groups around the world? Tell me about your ideas, and we'll figure out how to share your awesome work with your colleagues worldwide.

Coming Up in September

• For many of us, a new semester or term is just around the corner, and that means it's time for new participants! Meet new colleagues and see new demos by helping your local Study Group get the word out; get in touch with your local organizers to find out what their plans for raising awareness are, and see what you can do to help. The best way to start: bring your friends and labmates!
• Check out the brand new Open Science Utility Belt - like the R Utility Belt, we're working on laying out about a dozen lessons introducing skills and techniques in open science to Study Groups around the world. We're just getting started discussing what should go in these lessons, so please add your comments and questions and let us know what you'd like to teach & learn about.

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I've tentatively disabled HTTPS Everywhere on Firefox for GitHub Pages.

Context

We're trying to better localize our Study Groups introduction README for different languages.

Description

We recently updated our README in english, and changed much of the language associated with how to get started with Study Groups. We previously had a lovely translation in Portuguese for the README but have not yet updated it to match the changes in English. Please help if you can!

Steps

• Look at the english README
• Fork this Study Groups Repo
• In Terminal:
• clone [ssh key for Study Groups fork]
• cd [path to studyGroup repo on your local computer]
• Open the README and the README-pt.md in a text editor
• Translate the README-pt to match the english as close as possible, save changes
• Commit changes and submit a pull request to update the Portuguese translation
  • git status
  • git commit -m "SOME COMMENT ABOUT YOUR CHANGES"
  • git push origin master

🎉

References

• README in English - the main and up-to-date source of content
• README in Portuguese - the translation of the main Readme
• README in Hindi - a translation example that has been updated to match the english

Welcome New Study Groups

Welcome to our newest Study Groups at Boston University, Rio De Janeiro (GER NUPEM/UFRJ), and the University of Calgary! Also, a big welcome to our colleagues in Australia and New Zealand who recently joined us, from the University of Melbourne, Swinburne (Melbourne), University of Queensland (St. Lucia), Griffith University (Brisbane) and Auckland - the Australia and New Zealand teams were among those who helped inspire this program, so it's a big honor to have them jump on board here. More Study Groups are spooling up around the world; we'll note them here and add them to the Study Group Map as their first events come on line.

Study Group Localizations

We've been talking lately with a number of new groups in Brasil interested in starting Study Groups in Portuguese. In order to support this effort, the main Study Group website now supports translations via localization files. For an example, check out the english file; making a translated version of this file will allow new Study Groups to host their website in any language they like. A Portuguese translation should be landing very soon - but we'd like to offer assets in as many languages as possible, so if you'd like to produce a translation, get in touch!

Feedback Season

It's hard to believe we're already into November, and the first year of the Study Group program is almost complete - your Study Group leaders always want feedback on how to make your meetups as useful as possible for you, but as the semester concludes we need your feedback more than ever. Get in touch with your Study Group leaders to let them know what works, what doesn't, and what you want to see in the new year. Surveys will be around in the coming weeks - stay tuned and let us know!

New Lesson Highlights

Here are the notes from just a few of the awesome lessons that have been delivered around the world in October. Remember, open a new issue here when someone in your group teaches a new lesson, and it'll automatically get added to the list!

• Intermediate Git, by Elliott Sales de Andrade.
• Introduction to matplotlib by Nicolas P. Rougier.
• Basic Statistics in R by lcoome.
• Basemaps in R by Dewey Dunnington.

Also, don't miss the new Journal Club tag in the Lesson Index - this is a great reading list of papers for discussion on open science and data science as they affect all our fields. Check it out and feel free to add your own favorites!

Hello!

I'm looking into adding Gitter's Sidecar to our Study Group website and I'm curious if anyone has already done this. It seems to work "out of the box" but I'm having on3 issue with the scrolling - only the page scrolls not the chat room.

Any thoughts?

Tom

Welcome New Study Groups

Welcome to our newest Study Groups in Acadia, Nova Scotia and Institut Pasteur, Tunis! More Study Groups are spooling up around the world; we'll note them here and add them to the Study Group Map as their first events come on line.

New Global Lesson Index

After the last Study Group Leader's Meeting, we've created a new index to list Study Group lessons from around the world by topic, research field and difficulty level. Check out the new Lesson Index here to browse lessons taught so far.

Contributing to the lesson index is easy! In order to get your lesson listed, just open an issue in the lessons repository, describe your lesson, and apply the appropriate labels - see the Lesson Index link above for more details and examples. If you're not sure what labels to apply or how to proceed, take your best guess and we'll help you sort out the details. If everyone contributes links to their lessons, we will quickly build up a collection of material we can all teach and learn from!

Why don't I see my lesson in the index? There are a ton of lessons out there already, and the reason we created this new, collaboratively editable index is so we can all contribute our lessons back more easily. If you don't see your lesson already there, it wasn't on purpose - it just got missed by mistake! Please open a new issue to add it to the list.

New Lesson Highlights

Here are the notes from just a few of the awesome lessons that have been delivered around the world in September. Remember, open a new issue here when someone in your group teaches a new lesson, and it'll automatically get added to the list!

• Creating Heat Maps in R by Fong Chun Chan
• Introduction to unittest in Python by Andre R. Erler
• Introduction to Biopython by Madeleine Bonsma

There are already (at least) three study groups in Africa:

• Tunis, Tunisia run by @amelgh
• Khartoum, Sudan run by @zo0z
• North-West University, South Africa run by @anelda

Several organisations around Africa and that operate all over Africa (including H3ABionet and TrendInAfrica) have been discussing creating an umbrella study group.

The idea would be to have some of the resources of the local groups but at a continental level. For example, there could be a slack or gitter channel for the Pan-African group, and there could be hangouts or other video meetings, or local meetups could be broadcast to the whole continent.

I'm just creating this issue as a visible space to talk about setting this up, and loop in Mozilla folks.

It would be great if the study group members can add their events on Mozilla Study Group Event! We can add the link here. Unfortunately, the changes are not visible. Is there any other way we can add the link or any other ideas??

at this time and this date; see you there!

Hi all!

Poll time! 🎉

I was wondering who everyones audiences were in your own respective study groups? I ask this because I feel (in our own group) we have a competing interest for building community vs reaching new audiences.

In organizing meet ups for our own study group, I have tried to allow group input on how we should spend our meeting time together. My goal here is to primarily organize with the hope that interesting topics will be threshed out organically. More of an interest group than a study group.

This is vague! It also exacerbates the competing interests I mentioned above. I'd like to focus on things that are interesting to people who have been attending (~5 people) but would also like to incorporate more people. I'd also like to minimize evangelizing and 'recruitment'.

So who comes to your study groups? How big are they and how many newcomers do you have vs regular members? How often do you meet? How do you 'advertise'?

Here are my own answers (UMN Hackey Hour):

• We meeting every ~1.5 weeks
• Our study group is mainly members of our laboratory and the laboratory next door.
• We have around 10 unique visitors who have ever attended a study group
• We have 4-5 regular members who have been to the vast majority of meetings
• All but one of our members are graduate students (we have one brilliant undergrad ;)
• I've sent out email to the plant biology graduate student mailing list and also the biomedical informatics and computational biology mailing list (my home program).

I see that the repo in general is Apache2 licensed. I'm wondering whether this applies to text-only parts of the repo, like the code of conduct? I ask because it's unusual to apply a code-specific license like Apache to text, when more specific licenses (i.e. Creative Commons ones) exist.

@rodrigopadula and I were just talking about how great it would be if we could get a series of Study Groups started up around Brasil. But, we need a plan to move this forward effectively. Some rough steps we talked about:

1. Get this repo translated into Portuguese on a Portuguese branch (help wanted!). Translation of other assets like the Handbook can come later, but this repo is key.
2. Start a few groups around Brasil. I know @pcjunger has one coming for UFRJ, and @rodrigopadula is looking into ICUFF. One or two more around the country would be a great start.
3. Once there are two or three groups started, we should start a monthly google hangout in Portuguese, lead by the local community. We do one in english so far (which everyone is welcome to join in on), but one organized regionally would be a great addition.

This is a pretty simple plan so far - any ideas or details I'm missing? Please feel free to forward / cc anyone else who might like to help out with this!

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Hi there, Please add google calander to our study group https://github.com/nifrasismail/studyGroup

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Hey everyone,

Over the next little while, I'd love to get everyone's help designing some Study Group activities on the topic of open data. How can data sharing be introduced to your Study Group in a way your colleagues will find interesting and useful? Post ideas on this thread!

It'd be awesome if each of the Study Groups tried to throw an open data session this summer. Anything you want to try out is fair game - just be sure to document it and share back here!

We're having a hacky hour at Tharsis pub on new year's day. See you there!