Should be no setup. about shell-genomics

[aschuerch]

Agreed. Something to be discussed in the advisory committee @tracykteal

[tracykteal]

Agree. We should discuss this in the advisory committee meeting. I'll get out a scheduling email for that meeting.

[aschuerch]

Having no setup info will make it hard for self-directed learners to follow the lesson. Especially the shell-genomics lesson is doable on a local computer. See also the discussion at datacarpentry/wrangling-genomics#27 and datacarpentry/organization-genomics#30

[JasonJWilliamsNY]

This is a bigger overall question for the genomics lessons, and also for the Shell lesson maintainers. The original intention (in my understanding) is that these lessons weren't conceived to be run locally (even if many/any of them could be). They were always meant to be cloud-based, with self-directed learners working on their own cloud instance. I am not against things being able to run locally, but this issue probably affects every lesson and so we should be consistent either in providing one option, or multiple options.

[tracykteal]

I created an issue in genomics-workshop about this and gave it an AdvisoryCommittee label. datacarpentry/genomics-workshop#27

[ErinBecker]

Creating a meta-issue in genomics-workshop to hold all set-up related issues for these lessons. See link above.