Aboriginal flag by Harold Thomas
Masters: botany / plant physiology 🌿
University of Queensland:
Research Assistant (agriculture) 🌾
Technology Trainer (Library) 💻
LibreOffice Quality Assurance stint 🐞
Papa and husband 👨🏽👩🏻👧🏻🧒🏻
Origins in Peru 🦙 and France 🥐
Environment 🌳
FLOSS, Open Research and knowledge commons ♻️
Music, cycling, maps… 😍
“Microsoft university”
But:
Drupal website
Research Data Manager uses Nextcloud
Library promotes Open Source tools
Pressbooks for Open Textbooks (43 books)
Library Guides on Drupal
H5P elements
4 tech trainers
Services: training (short / intensives), support
44+ sessions about 22+ tools
PDFs on Drupal
R scripts on GitHub
Temporary move to GitLab
Markdown
More code-focused sessions
R Markdown: prose + code + output
Jupyter Notebooks for Python
Consolidate into Quarto website
---
title: "Quarto document"
date: today
author: Stéphane
format: html
---
## Markdown
The prose can be formatted with **Markdown**.
## Palmer penguins
The code chunk below generates @fig-penguins.
```{r}
#| label: fig-penguins
#| fig-cap: "Bill sizes discriminate species with some overlap."
#| warning: false
library(ggplot2)
ggplot(penguins,
aes(x = bill_len,
y = bill_dep,
colour = species)) +
geom_point()
```
Indexed and linked
Labelled repository and website
“Digital Learning Hub” on UQ Library website
Public
Widespread format
Accessibility improvements
axe-coreBuilt with FLOSS tools
Git is widespread
source is QMD:
editable
mainly Markdown
renders to countless formats
HTML in browser of choice
Mainly CC BY
Can (shallow) clone, pick and choose
Documented
renv and venv for reproducibility
Ten simple rules for making training materials FAIR (2020): https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007854
FAIR training handbook (2024): https://elixir-europe-training.github.io/ELIXIR-TrP-FAIR-training-handbook/
Ten simple rules for training by researchers for researchers in a rapidly evolving workforce (2025): https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013408
Figure from “10 Simple Rules for Making Training Materials FAIR” (2020)
axe-core, alternative renderings)My team: David Miles, Nick Wiggins, Cameron West, Brylee Tudge, Jason Cullen
Previous tech trainers: Kia Owens, Paula Andrea Martinez, Catherine Kim, Valentina Urrutia, Luke Gaiter, Awais Hameed Khan, Fiona Stroud…
All FLOSS contributors!
