Welcome and FAQ

[debruine]

Welcome to the code check club. This thread will be a place for us post the answers to FAQs and add info for people just joining the team.

What are we doing?

Our two tasks right now are to develop a code check guide and to pilot a procedure for code check clubs. As of 2022-08-02, we have an extensive brainstorming document and a draft for the guide. We're discussing setting up a pilot code check club in August in the discussion forum here.

Who can join?

This is an informal collaboration of people interested in making code check more common and accessible, especially for academic coders who do not have computer science training and for whom this is a new and intimidating process. Therefore, anyone with an interest in code check can join. Most of us are academics working with R and/or python, but we want our resources to be applicable to any coding language and discipline. People without much experience with code check are especially welcome, as they have an incredibly valuable perspective about what the first steps need to be.

Code of Conduct:

How to join

You can join this organisation by asking Lisa to add you (you'll need a github account). I'm not sure if you can contribute to the discussion if you're not a member, but if you can, go ahead!

Once you've joined, you can decide whether to make your membership visible in the People tab. It would be nice to show the breadth of this community.

Notifications

You can manage your github notifications to use email (or not) at https://github.com/settings/notifications. You can also specifically subscribe or unsubscribe to notifications for a specific thread in the righthand sidebar of that thread.

Tag a specific person to get thier attention (e.g., @debruine) or tag @code-check-club/members to flag posts to all members.