Onboarding for new contributors

Comment: What is a Learning Pathway?

We recommend you follow the tutorials in the order presented on this page. They have been selected to fit together and build up your knowledge step by step. If a lesson has both slides and a tutorial, we recommend you start with the slides, then proceed with the tutorial.

This learning path aims to teach you how to contribute to GTN training materials. From editing typos to rendering test GTN sites, you will progress from being a user to a contributor. For support throughout these tutorials, join our Galaxy training network on Matrix to ask questions!

New to making edits or creating training materials? Follow this learning pathway to get familiar with the basics!

Module 0: Introduction to Galaxy

If you’ve never used the Galaxy interface before, you will need to take our introductory tutorial first. Here, you will get a first look at the Galaxy platform for data analysis. You only need the short introduction to enable minor contributions, but for larger contributions, you can gain more familiarity through doing both tutorials.

Time estimation: 1 hour 40 minutes

Module 1: Edit a small error

Make a minor correction to an existing training material. You will edit one page using GitHub, so find a typo and get ready!

Time estimation:

Module 2: Add yourself as a contributor

While you can make minor corrections using the web-based Github interface, for larger changes (and, indeed, for building new materials altogether), you will need to work more extensively with Github. When you make larger changes, you should be acknowledged for your work - we will therefore use this Github training to also add yourself to our contributors list, so that we can acknowledge you going forward!

Time estimation: 30 minutes

Reference: Cool content

If you want to add icons, images, cool learning boxes and more, you will need to use this next resource. Treat it as the Wikipedia of building training material - it’s not meant to be a tutorial, but rather a resource to look up or scan through for ideas.

Time estimation: 15 minutes

Module 3: Make a larger change

You will also need to decide on a larger change to make in Galaxy! You may already have ideas on what to fix; you can reference our FAQ for ideas on what to change; or contact a Community of Practice to see if they have anything that needs doing. We will show you how to visualise those changes, and see how what you do will impact the materials. Finally, we show you had to add yourself as an editor, to acknowledge your contribution!

Time estimation: 20 minutes

Module 4: Make an even bigger change!

Tutorials often need their workflows updated to the latest set of tools. Or, you might find that you want to want to build something entirely new! Pick the tutorial that is right for you!

Time estimation: 1 hour 15 minutes

The End!

And now you’re done! There are still loads of resources to help you improve your training conceptually or structurally.