Workshop Material Creation and Maintenance - An Experience Report from the HIFIS Team

Abstract

The HIFIS team regularly offers workshops focusing on research software development and data science topics for Helmholtz researchers. The development and maintenance of the relevant workshop materials is a major effort in this context. For that reason, the team created a common workshop template to ease the creation of new workshop materials and to support the maintenance of existing materials. This template addresses aspects such as structuring of the learning materials, common web site design, publication of the materials in different formats and more. In this talk, we present our experiences with the template approach and show how we utilize tools such as GitLab, Cookiecutter and Cruft for this purpose.