Meeting agenda 2019 08 27

Agenda

Introductions
Overview of progress to date on sections of content:
Overview of progress to date on other items
Proposals
Discussion items
Next steps
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- (Previous moderators, in reverse chronological order: Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, Greg Wilson, Charlotte Wickham, Jonathan Dursi, Christina Koch, Luke Johnston, Damien Irving)

Novice R
- Data manipulation has been merged
Novice Python
- Data manipulation is ready for review
Intermediate
- General update at https://github.com/merely-useful/merely-useful.github.io/issues/69#issuecomment-523236042
- Remote access needs added
- Project structure ought to be put in here too (after command-line section)
- Make is unassigned
- Reusable software: configuration and documentation is unassigned
- Logging comes out
- Version control: branching workflows has been incorporated
  - Should someone be able to pick up the command-line Git lessons from scratch?
  - Yes
- Testing & verification: in progress
- Continuous integration: in progress
- R packaging: complete
- Python packaging: ready for review
- Project management: unassigned
- Inclusion: unassigned
- Teamwork: unassigned
- Publishing: needs to be added
- Code style & review: should go in
Rule of thumb: if the objectives or keypoints is more than a dozen points, the chapter probably wants to be split
Take out data syndication (niche, like logging)
Combine code style and refactoring as one lesson
- For novice, for intermediate, or both?
- Novice (because we want people to write clean code as early as possible)
Should we change personas to include "joining a project" or "leading a project"?
- Do the latter
Testing: use Zipf's Law example for now
Python publishing: looks like we're drifting back toward notebooks
MB volunteers to draw some diagrams :-)

To do:

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