[Air-L] Non-software uses of GitHub

[Felix Victor Münch]

Hi Jim,

Software Carpentry, an Australian initiative to teach researchers programming, is hosting and collaborating on their lessons on Github: https://github.com/swcarpentry

Also, Brenda Moon and me work on a DMRC workshop regarding data security and privacy for researchers using Github, and the slides are hosted there as well:

https://github.com/qut-dmrc/encrypt_all_the_things
https://qut-dmrc.github.io/encrypt_all_the_things/#/

To create presentations with frameworks such as reveal.js, collaborating on them, and also have them hosted there is a pretty common non-software use of Github I'd say.

There is also, for example, the cryptoparty handbook on Github: https://github.com/cryptoparty/handbook

And, last but not least, I'm writing my thesis with pandoc, version controlling it on Github, in a private repo so far though ;)

Cheers,

Felix

Felix Victor Münch
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> On Thursday, Nov 23, 2017 at 5:24 am, Jim Herbsleb <jim.herbsleb at gmail.com (mailto:jim.herbsleb at gmail.com)> wrote:
> I’m looking for GitHub repositories that are used for things other than software, especially where users are actively collaborating rather than just putting together static collections. So far, we have found a few books being written, some musical transcriptions being error-checked, and some policy documents maintained online.
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> Does anyone know of any examples of these or other categories? Any pointers much appreciated. Happy to share what we find with anyone interested.
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