Paper cuts are annoying but easy to fix bugs. Paper cuts CoFests are virtual, global, day-long events that improve the Galaxy ecosystem by addressing these issues, and by onboarding new contributors in the Galaxy community.
The February 2021 Papercuts CoFest will be held concurrently with the Galaxy Training Network day, which like Papercuts is a CoFest featuring community calls throughout participating time zones. You are encouraged to participate in both.
Want to improve Galaxy, and get involved with Galaxy? Please join us on February 25.
Goals
- Make the Galaxy experience be a pleasure and be productive by removing and reducing irritants.
- Grow the Galaxy contributor community by holding regular events.
- Identify easy but informative things to fix.
- Work together and enjoy the community.
- Dedicate time together for bug-fixing.
- Make reducing paper cuts fun.
This will be a 24h event, spanning all time zones with our worldwide community. We’ll start at 09:00 Melbourne time, and end at 15:30 Portland time.
Interested?
Interested? Please let us know by registering your interest. We’ll send you information before the event. (Registering your interest is optional.) Please join us on a call (and on Gitter) and we will get you on board.
Join us in our regular onboarding video calls
We have calls spread throughout the day. Calls last for 30 minutes. The rest of our time is spent communicating via chat, and small group video as needed.
| Link | Melbourne (UTC +11) | Kuala Lumpur (UTC +8) | India (UTC +5:30) | Freiburg (UTC +1) | Cleveland (UTC -5) | Portland (UTC -8) | Your Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zoom | Thu 09:00 | Thu 06:00 | Thu 03:30 | Wed 23:00 | Wed 17:00 | Wed 14:00 | See |
| Zoom | Thu 12:00 | Thu 09:00 | Thu 06:30 | Thu 02:00 | Wed 20:00 | Wed 17:00 | See |
| Zoom | Thu 15:00 | Thu 12:00 | Thu 09:30 | Thu 05:00 | Wed 23:00 | Wed 20:00 | See |
| Zoom | Thu 19:00 | Thu 16:00 | Thu 13:30 | Thu 09:00 | Thu 03:00 | Thu 00:00 | See |
| Zoom | Thu 22:00 | Thu 19:00 | Thu 16:30 | Thu 12:00 | Thu 06:00 | Thu 03:00 | See |
| Zoom | Fri 01:00 | Thu 22:00 | Thu 19:30 | Thu 15:00 | Thu 09:00 | Thu 06:00 | See |
| Zoom | Fri 04:00 | Fri 01:00 | Thu 22:30 | Thu 18:00 | Thu 12:00 | Thu 09:00 | See |
| Zoom | Fri 07:00 | Fri 04:00 | Fri 01:30 | Thu 21:00 | Thu 15:00 | Thu 12:00 | See |
| Zoom | Fri 10:00 | Fri 07:00 | Fri 04:30 | Fri 00:00 | Thu 18:00 | Thu 15:00 | See |
Calls between 8am and 6pm local time are shown in bold. No matter where you are in the world there should be 3 calls during your workday.
Hey Learners!
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The February Papercuts has a new emphasis on helping students get involved with Galaxy, a global open source / open science project. This month we are particularly reaching out to people at these universities:
- James Cooke University, Townsville, Cairns & Brisbane, Australia
- Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Lock Haven University, Lock Haven & Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States.
Don’t worry if you aren’t at one of these universitites. You should still join us, and we will get you on board. (And we’ll also talk to you about bringing your uni on board next month.)
Issues to work on
Here are links to the issues identified as potential targets for papercuts day:
| Repo / Project | What is it? | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| Galaxy Server | Galaxy server and front end. | paper-cut |
| Galaxy Admin Training | Training materials for Galaxy Admin Training. | paper-cut |
| Galaxy Training Network | Training materials. | Collaboration Fest ideas newcomer-friendly paper-cut |
| CloudMan | Managing instances on cloud infrastructures. | good first issue |
| IUC Tools | Wrappers for popular tools in Galaxy. | paper-cut |
| BioBlend | The Galaxy Python API. | paper-cut |
| Galaxy Hub | The Galaxy Community web site. | paper-cut |
| Ansible Galaxy | Galaxy deployment recipes. | paper-cut |
| LSP server | Galaxy Tool Language Server. | paper-cut |
Developer Quick Dive Videos
Developer Quick Dives are short videos (2 minutes or less) that demonstrate how to do common tasks in Galaxy development. Take a peek.
Before the event
If you are a Galaxy user or admin, you can create, or tag existing GitHub issues for any irritating, but likely easily fixed bugs (make a guess). These can be in any part of Galaxy, not just the core engine, and includes training, documentation, and other software.
If you don’t have a GitHub or Gitter account yet, then set them up (in that order).
If you have time, and want to learn more about contributing you are encouraged to review:
- A collection of short videos, highlighting how to do common useful tasks during Paper Cuts and beyond.
- Development in Galaxy tutorials.
- Contributing to the Galaxy Training Material tutorials.
- Galaxy on GitHub - see what projects are supported and find the one that speaks to you. Pay particular attention to each project’s CONTIBUTING.md files.
During the event
We will have video calls throughout the day and be on Gitter for chat all day long. Please take advantage of both to communicate with your collaborators around the world.
After the event
Get those pull requests in! And address anything from the review! And become more involved in the Galaxy code, training, and documentation base!
Communication
Communication will happen through GitHub, Gitter channels and Zoom. Links will be posted here before the event.
Get the word out
Know someone or a group that might benefit from participating? Then please help get the word out. A handy flier is available to help advertise.