[Talk Suggestion]: Supercharge research project collaboration using GitHub

[VeckoTheGecko]

Describe the topic for the talk
Email is a difficult way to collaborate on research projects.

• Difficult to share code
• Difficult to write a paper together
• Project management is left up to the indivudual collaborators
• Only scales really up to 2 people (3 at most) - otherwise the number of emails significantly increases to be overwhelming

Instead, we can leverage GitHub and the built-in code management, and project management features to act as the hub for a project, allowing for effective collaboration that scales to research projects with lots of collaborators (reducing the noise of email, and allowing individuals to tune into project work that affects them).

Describe the benefit
Describe how this will benefit you with your workflows, or those at IMAU.

Would you be capable/willing to give the talk?
Yes I can, open to other people giving the talk though.

Additional comments

Example repos:

• https://github.com/adele-morrison/easterlies-collaborative-project

There are definitely other examples out there though - will update this list

Thanks @michaeldenes for the talk suggestion and the initial link!

[VeckoTheGecko]

@michaeldenes mentioned he's keen to give the talk! (sometime in 2026)