Course planning and details - 2024-01-23

[lwjohnst86]

• Location: MBK, Copenhagen
• Date: 2024-01-23
• Pre-course assignments dates (~3-5 hrs to complete, suggest they dedicate a full day to it):
  • Start: Dec. 23, 2023
  • Due: Jan. 18, 2024

Instructors

Instructors/helpers: @AndersAskeland, @lwjohnst86, @KWMadsen, @MarieAnneberg, Ziping

Before the course, please review the CONTRIBUTING guide, Code of Conduct, and the Tips for instructors or helpers in the Guides website.

Day	Topic	Instructor
Day 1	Introduction to the course	@lwjohnst86
Day 1	Management of R projects	@lwjohnst86
Day 1	Version control and collaborative practices	@AndersAskeland
Day 2	Data management and wrangling	Ziping
Day 2	Creating reproducible documents	@KWMadsen
Day 3	Data visualizations	@MarieAnneberg
Day 3	Closing remarks	@lwjohnst86

Assigned teams

Team	Instructor/helper

To do before course

• Dec. 23, 2023: (Optional) Send an calendar invite to registered participants with link to pre-course tasks and website.
• Jan. 09, 2024: Send a calendar invite to instructors/helpers for course location (with planning issue link), dinner locations, and post-course debrief.
  • Include registered participants with link to pre-course tasks and website.
• ~Jan. 09, 2024: Pre-course instructor meeting:
  • Go briefly over Instructor and Helper with new instructors.
  • Mention about post-course debrief (described in the Guides site).
  • (For intro course) Have all instructors/helpers give their GitHub user names.
• Jan. 15, 2024: Send a reminder to everyone to complete tasks. See r3admin/vignettes/articles/.
• Jan. 18, 2024: Check that all participants have completed pre-course material. See r3admin/vignettes/articles/.
• Jan. 20, 2024: Get participants into groups (on GitHub too?) (~3-4 people per group). See r3admin/vignettes/articles/.
• Jan. 20, 2024: Assign instructors to groups. See r3admin/vignettes/articles/.
• Jan. 20, 2024: Add everyone to Slack channel. See r3admin/vignettes/articles/.
• Jan. 20, 2024: Open up the Google Forms feedback survey

To do during course

• Set up repo to host code-along that instructors will use (course dependent).

To do after course

• Close the Google Forms feedback survey
• Update git tag (use CalVer YYYY-0M-0D style) and release it (r3admin::create_course_tag())
• Update course metadata in r3admin/data-raw/.
• Update instructor/helper metadata in r3admin/data-raw/.
• Update Zenodo DOI

Other details

• DDA will reimburse travel expenses here