CommunityData:Onboarding Checklist

Welcome! This page walks you through getting set up in the CDSC and by CommunityData:Introduction to CDSC Resources. You'll be referring this page a a few times as you set things up.

Note: Doing all of these things might take you a few hours. Please plan accordingly!

IRC
We use IRC for chat.


 * Read the CommunityData:IRC page for info.
 * log onto IRC for the first time / set up your choice of IRC client
 * create and register your nick
 * join  and
 * say hello to folks in the group!

Wiki
Welcome to this wiki!


 * create a wiki account
 * Once you do, send a note to a more senior group member with your username (perhaps on IRC?!) and we'll grant your account some privileges (to help ensure none of your edits get caught up in our spam filters)
 * add information and a picture of yourself to the People page

If you notice things that are wrong or that could be better, please go ahead and edit these instructions or other pages on the wiki. You are also welcome to copy this page into your userspace (just add something like "User:Benjamin Mako Hill/Checklist" except with your name in the URL and then copy-and-paste the text in).

Email

 * Read over email lists to familiarize yourself with the email lists.
 * Sign up for your local collective-LOCATION email list. Once you subscribe to one of these lists, you will also be on the collective@communitydata.science (the full group) list. This will typically need to be approved by the administrator (i.e., the faculty supervisor) of the list you are joining.
 * Once you are on the list, verify that you can send mail to it by sending a message introducing yourself? Perhaps you can link to or share your text from the People page on the wiki?

Zotero

 * Install Zotero for you laptop as well as the Zotero connector.
 * Ask your advisor or the faculty you are working with to add you to the Zotero group (you will need to share the username of your Zotero account)
 * Carefully read the CommunityData:Zotero page and follow those instructions to add one new source to the repository.

Git

 * Read over the CommunityData:Git page (it's OK if you don't follow everything)
 * Following the instructions on that page, install Git on your computer and then following the other steps on Configuring Git for submodules
 * Generate a public SSH key on your computer and then share that key with one of the CDSC git administrators (your faculty supervisor will work)
 * once this is finshed, follow the instructions to clone the  git repository

Overleaf

 * Create an account on Overleaf (https://overleaf.com) and be ready to share the email address
 * Only if/when your faculty advisor has requested it, contact User:Aaronshaw to be added to the group "pro" account. The pro account isn't necessary to use Overleaf so we typically only do this when we need to.

Misc

 * Fill out the "Useful Information" form
 * Add / follow the shared calendar (on Google Calendars): https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=4lp243dptu5ddcd5jr5d7032jc@group.calendar.google.com

Group Blog

 * You should create an account by asking your faculty supervisor to create an account and by telling them (a) you email address and you preferred username.

Optional Next Steps

 * Ask your faculty member on IRC to be added to the social media accounts
 * If you would like access to the group Twitter, you will need to share your existing Twitter account
 * If you like access to the group Youtube, you will need to send your existing Google account
 * Become familiar with any servers or computational resources relevant to your work
 * If you know you will be involved in data collection for example, you should start the process of getting access to our data collection server Kibo.
 * If you want write access to the Google Calendar, ask your faculty supervisor to add yourself to the list.