Tripal User's Meeting 2018/03/02

Reminders

• Consider adding your modules into the Tripal GitHub organization.

  • You can make your own team in the github repo.  Ask stephen/lacey/meg for permission to join the Tripal organization.

  • If not, please tag the repo as Tripal.  

• Remember to update the status of your modules on the Tripal.info site.  

  • If you need a login let us know. You have to email one of the admins.

• If you have a new site or major updates to your existing site let us know and we can publish those on the Tripal news feed and twitter accounts.

  • http://tripal.info/sites_using_tripal

  • We need to reach out to new tripal sites to encourage them to get their site on tripal.info etc.  

  • Let’s (Shawna please talk to Stephen) about who in the outreach team is responsible for reaching out.  Ethy will try to reach out to those present at PAG

  • Additional tripal.info needs?  We will add training videos.

  • API in March

• Send us your logo if you have shared a module with the community and would like it showcased on the Tripal.info site.

• If you publish on your site please remember to cite Tripal (Sanderson et. al. 2013). A Tripal v3 paper will be submitted this year. (We did not have a Tripal v2 paper).

Agenda

• Training and Help Desk Schedule

  • http://tripal.info/support

  • The first Friday of each month is reserved for a teleconference call for discussions about the state of Tripal with Tripal core developers and others developing extension modules. The goal is to improve the usability of Tripal, reduce duplication of effort, and  help find collaborations.

  • The third Friday of each month will alternate between a "help desk" open call and a training topic. Schedule below. All meetings are at 8am PDT/11am EST/4pm GMT.

    • Friday, February 23rd - Help Desk Call

    • Friday, March 2nd - User's Meeting

    • Friday, March 16th - Training  - Tripal v3 Fields

    • Friday, April 6th - User's Meeting

    • Friday, April 20th - Help Desk Call

  • Explore a Tripal Europe User's Meeting.

• Tripal release schedule

  • A regular release schedule and corresponding notifications to the mailing list, website, and twitter account so that users know when to update their sites.

  • Perhaps just sent an update of what was fixed in an email.

• Tripal Collection on FairShare.org  (Bradford Condon)

  • Other database metalistings to put our sites on and/or flag as Tripal?

    • https://fairsharing.org/collection/Tripal

  • Zenodo group

    • https://zenodo.org/deposit/new?c=tripal

    • Generates a DOI for every release of software after you have integrated Zenodo with your GitHub repository.

• (Developer issue if time) - CI Testing framework.  [Discussion Thread]

• Staton Lab working on Tripal Test Suite: Composter

  • https://github.com/statonlab/TripalTestSuite

• Potential Training:

  • Development Best Practices -- May Training