Meeting agenda 2019 11 26

• Time: Tuesday, 26 November 2019, 21:00 UTC
• Location: https://zoom.us/j/8911989380
• Moderator: Luke Johnston
• Note taker: Joel Ostblom
• Attendees:
  • Charlotte Wickham (CW)
  • Brandeis Marshall (BM)
  • Elizabeth Wickes (EW)
  • Kate Hertweck (KH)
  • Luke Johnston (LJ)
  • Damien Irving (DI)
  • Greg Wilson (GW)
  • Joel Ostblom (JO)

Action items

• Everyone comment on https://github.com/merely-useful/merely-useful.github.io/pull/283
• DI Start handing out tasks for RSE narrative rewrite
• CW look into lognormal is the right distribution to model the RSE text data
• LJ split book into two folders
• GW Look into styling prompts to make them inert to copying and faded, and where in the book to put them (aka how many console sessions there are)
• KH Continue work on RSE teams

Notes

• DI: zipfs law rewrite suggestions are in this PR, comments welcome.
• LW: Started splitting R/Py for RSE, PR here ...#287
• GW: Is lognormal the right distribution to fit in text.
  • CW: I can look into this.
• LJ: Should we have more exercises?
  • GW: Around six exercises / chapter is what is preferred by publishers
• EW: Prompts only for console sessions won with 65%.
  • GW: Look into making it inert to copying.
  • GW: Add only for prompt for console session, but in all books
• KH: What is priority right now?
  • LJ: RSE Python narrative rewrite
• KH: Can't assume that all learners are working open?
  • BM: Make a recommendation about working open.

Agenda

1. Overview of progress to date on sections of content:
   • Novice R
   • Novice Python
   • Intermediate
     • Especially RSE Narrative and splitting RSE into R and Python
   • Move individual books into own folders
2. Overview of progress to date on other items
3. Proposals: None
4. Discussion items:
   • More exercises
   • Prompt
   • Docker
   • Unifying narrative and Linkages
5. Next steps
   • Select moderator for next meeting