e-panourgia / cosmos-tour

A guided tour of the Universe

Welcome to the Universe

The purpose of this repository is to get familiar with Git and GitHub's concepts, and practice some basic commands. In addition, the project aims to provide a brief guided tour of the cosmos by the Department of Management Science and Technology of the Athens University of Economics and Business.

First of all: Send your GitHub username to Zoe (if you have not shared it already), and expect an invitation to join as a repository collaborator.

Tasks

• Clone this repository.
• Add interesting aspects of the cosmos to the guide.md file. (Create the file if it does not already exist.)
• Contribute generously and in several categories.
• In case you reuse other people's material, make sure to:
  1. rephrase the content, and
  2. add a reference to the original source.
• Introduce new categories and organize things.
• Feel free to add images and videos.
• You may modify, fix, or improve existing content added by others.
• Commit your changes.
• Push to the GitHub repository. (If needed, pull and resolve any merge conflicts.)
• Since you are a repository collaborator, you are not requested to follow the fork and pull request practice.

DEADLINE: 3 April 2022 23:55

Tips

• Copy-pasting text is considered plagiarism, so make sure to rephrase any reused content.
• Configure your editor to use a spellchecker (in case you have not already done so).
• Include links where necessary (e.g., books, online videos, etc.).
• Rearrange text if you think it should be organized differently—refactoring is always welcome!
• You can include images and videos, but don't forget to commit and push them.
• Images and videos should be placed in the media/ directory. (Create the directory if it does not already exist.)
• Again, use references for images and videos—you cannot reuse web content without citing the original source.
• Be creative! Take it a step further by including a file with guidelines to contributing for newcomers, a code of conduct file, a license, etc.

Grading System

• Number and quality of contributions—the more and the higher the quality the better!
• Each commit should include one contribution or a group of similar contributions.
• Do not combine several diverse contributions in one commit!
• Completeness of each contribution: one-sentence contributions are considered "bad" contributions.
• Breaking things (e.g., merge conflicts) comes with a grade deduction.
• But fixing others' breaks (e.g., resolving merge conflicts) has a bonus!
• Quality of commit messages: they should be descriptive (of the change), concise, and follow best practices (e.g., by Robert Painsi or Bolaji Ayodeji).
• Default commit messages are not welcome.
• Missing references or rewording of reused material is not welcome.
• Content should be in proper Markdown format—check the Markdown Cheatsheet.