Blog

[raivo-otus]

Lay the groundwork for planning a blog to disseminate our work.

[antagomir]

Ok outreach cannot be a private repo as it has material already. See suggestions.

[raivo-otus]

Ok outreach cannot be a private repo as it has material already. See suggestions.

I am unsure where the suggestions are. Can not find them?

I can make a private repo somewhere else, and we can merge it later?

[antagomir]

Thinking about it I guess we can have a public plan. Minor updates and then we can add this in outreach repo.

Another option is to use Github project tools / discussion options but I am not sure if that's any more clear.

[antagomir]

Ready to merge after the above changes.

COuld you also add these on the same go as possible blog topics:

1. OMA is now in Bioc books https://bioconductor.org/help/bioconductor-books
2. mia/Faith alpha diversity implementation provides remarkable speedups
3. Schloss method for rarified alpha & beta diversity analyses
4. cross-correlation analysis
5. Joint-RPCA
6. IntegratedLearner
7. Mediation analysis
8. TreeSE container
9. MAE container
10. ... other suggestions?

[TuomasBorman]

In my opinion, we could move the quarto slides to own repo and the blog to another. Now everything is little be messed. It would be probably simple than just putting everything to one repo.

This "outreach" could be generic posters, logos, other slides etc.

[raivo-otus]

In my opinion, we could move the quarto slides to own repo and the blog to another. Now everything is little be messed. It would be probably simple than just putting everything to one repo.

This "outreach" could be generic posters, logos, other slides etc.

I agree. We actually talked with Giulio and also came to the understanding that the blog would best work as its own repo.

We discussed that implementing it with quarto as a website could work well, since everyone in the lab is familiar with working in quarto files. GHA can be setup to render and host as new blog posts are added through PR's.

And we have writers for the blog! The group members I have discussed with in passing have all been enthusiastic in contributing blog posts.

To move forward with the blog, I suggest we create a microbiome/blog -repo and start to scaffold the infrastructure.
I am willing to maintain and coordinate; I have prior experience with lead editor duties in a student publication that can be useful here.

[TuomasBorman]

You can start building it here: https://github.com/microbiome/blog

We can easily move it somewhere else in the future if needed, but good to start there

[antagomir]

Great! Let us first compile a plan of first topics, authors and timings so that we will have a good and well sustained initial push when we go live with it. We could meet over this when the infrastructure is ready.