A guide to make your repository Binder-ready

The myBinder.org project drastically lowers the bar to sharing and re-using software. For the user to try out someone else's work requires only clicking a single link. For the author to prepare a binder-ready project is much easier than having to support many different platforms and for many projects involves little additional work. However Binder itself is a tool that requires some investment to master. The majority of researchers, journalists and educators have not yet discovered the Binder project or have heard it mentioned but do not know how to get started.

At this workshop you will learn how others are using myBinder.org and related tools. At the end of the workshop you will be able to take some of your own content (in a R or Jupyter notebook) and prepare it so that it can be used by others on myBinder.org.

This workshop is for you if:

• You are already familiar with Jupyter notebooks or Rmarkdown
• You enjoy sharing new knowledge with your peers/colleagues
• You are willing to learn how to better share your materials
• You want to know how others are sharing their materials and want to share your own experiences

Each workshop:

• lasts one day
• relies on active participants who are happy to lead discussions
• is limited to 20 participants
• is free to attend
• is organised by a group of volunteers
• is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Mozilla Foundation

Some example Binders:

• Office of National Statistics - a report on traffic flow as an early indicator for GDP
• A book on digital signal processing, or how computers understand music
• A collection of notebooks about neural networks
• Example of interactive code snippets in a normal webpage