CommunityData:Onboarding Checklist

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Welcome!

Getting started

IRC

We use IRC for chat.

  • [TODO] Read the CommunityData:IRC page for info.
  • [TODO] log onto IRC for the first time / set up your choice of IRC client
  • [TODO] create and register your nick
  • [TODO] join #communitydata and #communitydata-casual
  • [TODO] say hello to folks in the group!

Wiki

Welcome to this wiki!

  • [TODO] create a wiki account
  • [TODO] 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)
  • [TODO] add information and a picture of yourself to the People page

Email

  • [TODO] Read over email lists to familiarize yourself with the email lists.
  • [TODO] 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.

Zotero

  • [TODO] Install Zotero for you laptop as well as the Zotero connector.
  • [TODO] 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)
  • [TODO] Carefully read the CommunityData:Zotero page and practice adding a new thing to the repository.

Git

  • [TODO] Read over the CommunityData:Git page (it's OK if you don't follow everything)
  • [TODO] Following the instructions on that page, install Git on your computer and then following the other steps on Configuring Git for submodules
  • [TODO] 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)
  • [TODO] once this is finshed, follow the instructions to clone the cdsc_examples_repository git repository

Overleaf

  • [TODO] 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

Group Blog

  • [TODO] 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.

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