Welcome!

[mza]

Hello, and thank you all for your interest in Lark!

I just wanted to welcome you, and give a quick orientation to the
project along with a stock take of what we've got at the moment (and
what we haven't).

Lark is a framework for managing research workflows, data and
collaboration. It's a collection of very simple conventions and a
simple domain specific language for defining datasets, materials,
hypotheses and methods. These can be mixed together into experimental
runs, which Lark manages, collecing metadata and provenance along the
way.

Each set of research data can be bundled up into a kernel (we call it
a 'larkive'), which includes all the information necessary to re-run
the experiments, remix the materials and methods, or re-use the data.
These kernels can also be digitally signed, shared and pushed to the
Lark server, which helps with collaboration.

This is the Lark Song mailing list, where we'll be discussing the role
of Lark, posting release notes and generally chatting about modern
research patterns. If you're interested in mostly 'read only' updates
to the project you can tune into the Lark Blog: larkive.tumblr.com.

We have a project home page at larksong.org, and an empty source code
repository at github.com/larkive, both of which are worth a bookmark
at this stage. I'm very pleased to say that we have a great team of
Core developers who in addition to coding will be discussing the on-
going development, technical direction and design decisions on the
Lark Core mailing list.

What we don't have is a '1.0' release, or even a candidate we could
consider for a beta test. We do have a proof of concept API, server
and larkive tool which the Core team will be banging into shape -
watch this space.

Thanks to Cameron for kicking things off with what sounds like a great
use case. We'll be circulating details of how we're getting on with
development over the next few weeks.

We're very happy to have you on board. Feel free to send messages to
this list to introduce yourself and your interest in Lark: or feel
free to sit back and watch the show.

~ Matt

[Zaki Manian]

The github link 404s. Haven't gotten around to setting it up yet?

[Matt Wood]

We'll be pushing some code up soon. It won't do everything from the get go, but will give us a good foundation to move forward.

~ M