Re: [OpenTechSchool-Australia] Intro to Data Processing, Saturday, March 29?

[Matthew Iversen]

I should be able to make it as well, afaik.

Will have to work on updating the material a bit I think (don't we
always...), I particularly think anaconda is nowadays probably the best
tool for getting scientific python packages easily.

I was also wondering if people would like to transition sometime to
discourse - http://discourse.opentechschool.org/

It can now apparently also look like a mailing list, if that's your
preferred usage pattern -
http://discourse.opentechschool.org/t/system-update-acting-almost-like-a-mailinglist/461

Of course, I don't want to lose anyone who currently follows this (also
our Melbourne OTS page currently points here) but I think it would be
good to seriously think about transitioning over. Please share any
opinions if you have any ;)

[Angus Gratton]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 06:05:24PM +1100, Matthew Iversen wrote:
> I should be able to make it as well, afaik.

Thanks Matt, that's awesome! I think we have 4 coaches now, which is
great. Will reach out to the Melbourne Python people as well.

> Will have to work on updating the material a bit I think (don't we
> always...), I particularly think anaconda is nowadays probably the best
> tool for getting scientific python packages easily.

I agree. The material already recommends Anaconda as the first choice
with the most detail about how to set it up.

A few of the alternatives mentioned in passing can probably be trimmed
entirely though, as they haven't been updated lately. Perhaps we'll
just leave the install lines for pip and apt-get as guides for anyone
comfortable with those. I suppose it'd be good to have a yum install
line for anyone on Fedora, too.

I'll take care of those changes this week. Also there are some
workaround steps given for an Anaconda bug on Windows that has
hopefully been fixed already, I'll check if they can be pulled out.

> I was also wondering if people would like to transition sometime to
> discourse - http://discourse.opentechschool.org/

Will reply in a seperate email about this. :)


- Angus