SFS 2025 Have you ever wanted to start using Github to backup your data, easily switch between campus and home workspaces while saving your progress, catch coding errors between saves, and easily share your data with your advisor, committee, collaborators, and journals? Well, that’s what we’re here for! Getting started on Github can be intimidating, but this workshop is designed to give you all you need to hit the ground running! No prior knowledge of Github is necessary, and we'll be covering setting up your own repository, cloning it on your PC, and working with others. The activities in this workshop will give you a great starting point, and in the future you will thank yourself for your improved organization and ease of working from multiple workstations.
We’ve structured this workshop to be very hands on, and our goal is to get you comfortable with using this amazing resource and never have to search for lost files again! You’ll be using a reduced dataset from an ongoing eDNA project, and we’ll show you how you can compartmentalize your workflow to make it easily shareable with others you’re working with.
We’ve run this workshop at multiple conferences, including the 2023 Society for Conservation Biology conference and multiple Oregon State University graduate student conferences. And have streamlined it provide an excellent introduction and launghing point scientists early in their careers. Undergraduates and early graduate students are especially encouraged to attend! Work will be done on participant’s laptops, and you will need your own computer to participate. All participants will also need to follow some easy instructions prior to the workshop, to make sure you’re ready to go! They can be found here: https://github.com/rhyacotritonriot/RAFWE.WFGRS.2023