Galaxy Special Interest Group (SIG)s work hard to build and maintain training resources. The GTN has worked hard to acknowledge this and offer nice impact pages to communities.

Here is a list of resources that you can use!

Comment

• We want this material to grow (similar to the ‘Creating content in markdown’ tutorial) so please do add further resources that can help communities!

Agenda

In this tutorial, we will cover:

1. Maintainer Home
2. Community Home
3. Topic usage statistics
4. News widgets
5. Workflow search
6. Galaxy Community Activities calendar
7. Conclusion

Maintainer Home

Maintaining resources is fundamental to the quality and usefulness of any software resource. We do not throw code over the wall!

To help topic maintainers to quickly recognise what materials need updating and fixing, topic Maintainer Homes were built.

Hands-on: Go to your topic Maintainer Home

1. Go to any GTN training topic of interest.

2. Scroll down past the tutorials, and click on the “Maintainer Home” button

   Tip: How do I find the Maintainer Home pages?

   The Maintainer Home pages shows the state of the topic and its materials in terms of which available GTN features are being used, adherence to best practices, and when tutorials have last been updated, and which tutorials are the most used, etc. This can help inform where to focus your efforts.

   You can find your Maintainer Home by

   1. Opening the GTN Topic page of your choice
   2. Scrolling down to the Community Resources section (below the list of tutorials)

   3. Clicking the Maintainer Home button

      

   For example, have a look at the Single Cell Maintainer Home

   

3. Explore the Maintainer Home!
   • For example, the Single Cell Maintainer Home

You may instantly see some key information missing from tutorials, or how long its been since someone checked it! Time to update some materials!

You can see an example from the Single-cell topic below:

Community Home

Where the Maintainer Home helps you sustain your community, the Community Home helps you show off your community. An end-of-year gift in 2024, this page will sift through news, events, and GTN contributions for your community tag of interest (example: single-cell) and provide a beautiful visualization of your efforts.

Hands-on: Go to your topic Community Home

1. Go to any GTN training topic of interest.

2. Scroll down past the tutorials, and click on the “Community Home” button

   Tip: How do I find the Community Home pages?

   The Community Home shows statistics for the topic (e.g. number of tutorials, slides, events, contributors, etc), as well as annual “Year in review” sections listing all new additions to the topic/community for each year.

   You can find your Community Home by

   1. Opening the GTN Topic page of your choice
   2. Scrolling down to the Community Resources section (below the list of tutorials)

   3. Clicking the Community Home button

      

   For example, have a look at the Single Cell Community Home

   

3. Explore the Community Home!
   • For example, the Single Cell Community Home

You can see an example from the Single-cell topic below:

Topic usage statistics

Next up, you might want to know how many people are actually using your materials? Welcome to your Topic usage statistics! You may have already found this, actually, as it’s (currently) at the bottom of the Maintainer Home.

Hands-on: Go to your topic usage statistics

1. Go to any GTN training topic of interest.

2. Scroll down past the tutorials, and click on the “Maintainer Home” button

   Tip: How do I find the Maintainer Home pages?

   The Maintainer Home pages shows the state of the topic and its materials in terms of which available GTN features are being used, adherence to best practices, and when tutorials have last been updated, and which tutorials are the most used, etc. This can help inform where to focus your efforts.

   You can find your Maintainer Home by

   1. Opening the GTN Topic page of your choice
   2. Scrolling down to the Community Resources section (below the list of tutorials)

   3. Clicking the Maintainer Home button

      

   For example, have a look at the Single Cell Maintainer Home

   

3. Scroll down to the section “Statistics For Your Materials”
4. Explore the usage statistics!
   • For example, the Single Cell Usage Statistics

You can see an example from the Single-cell topic below.

News widgets

You can also embed news into your pages, subdomains/ Galaxy Labs, or even your Matrix channels.

Follow this documentation to learn how:

1. GTN Feeds
2. Bot integration into matrix

Tip: How do I add a news feed to a Matrix channel?

1. You must be an Admin in the channel. Find this out by going to the channel and selecting Room info –> People, or clicking on the little circle images of people in a channel. Admins can make other admins.

2. Go to Room info –> Extensions –> Add extension –> Feeds

3. Under Subscribe to a feed, add a URL from this GTN feeds listing. Make sure that it ends in .xml. For example, https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/topics/community/feed.xml would provide updates on any community-tagged GTN materials into the Matrix channel.

4. Under Template, change the existing text to the following: $LINK: $SUMMARY

5. Provide a reasonable name, and then hit Subscribe!

Details from Matrix are here: https://ems-docs.element.io/books/element-cloud-documentation/page/migrate-to-the-new-github-and-feeds-bots

You can see an example from the Single-cell topic below.

News and Events

Workflow search

Want to see all the workflows tagged with your community tag across public servers? Look no further!

Follow this documentation to learn how:

1. Galaxy Pan-Galactic Workflow Search
2. Workflow Search Querying

You can see an example from the Single-cell topic below.

Public workflows

Galaxy Community Activities calendar

We host a GoogleCalendar on the Galaxy Special Interest Group Hub page.

Tip: How can I add my SIG meetings to the Galaxy Community Activities calendar?

Add the following guest to all of your Google Calendar meeting events: 8a762890fbe724e9d29b67915aa0197a352642f94b22ec64a85430daaf1abb5e@group.calendar.google.com

Then it will show up in the Galaxy Community Activities calendar!

Conclusion

congratulations Congratulations! You’ve made it to the end! Hopefully you think these resources are brilliant, and are making sure to tag everything (news, events, training materials, workflows, FAQs, you name it, you should tag it!) with your community tag!

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Key points

• The GTN has worked hard to provide automated metrics and resources to highlight and acknowledge the efforts of communities and community leads

• This only works if we contribute with effective tagging.

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Citing this Tutorial

1. Wendi Bacon, Saskia Hiltemann, Creating community content (Galaxy Training Materials). https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/topics/community/tutorials/community_content/tutorial.html Online; accessed TODAY
2. Hiltemann, Saskia, Rasche, Helena et al., 2023 Galaxy Training: A Powerful Framework for Teaching! PLOS Computational Biology 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010752
3. Batut et al., 2018 Community-Driven Data Analysis Training for Biology Cell Systems 10.1016/j.cels.2018.05.012

BibTeX

@misc{community-community_content,
author = "Wendi Bacon and Saskia Hiltemann",
	title = "Creating community content (Galaxy Training Materials)",
	year = "",
	month = "",
	day = "",
	url = "\url{https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/topics/community/tutorials/community_content/tutorial.html}",
	note = "[Online; accessed TODAY]"
}
@article{Hiltemann_2023,
	doi = {10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010752},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1010752},
	year = 2023,
	month = {jan},
	publisher = {Public Library of Science ({PLoS})},
	volume = {19},
	number = {1},
	pages = {e1010752},
	author = {Saskia Hiltemann and Helena Rasche and Simon Gladman and Hans-Rudolf Hotz and Delphine Larivi{\`{e}}re and Daniel Blankenberg and Pratik D. Jagtap and Thomas Wollmann and Anthony Bretaudeau and Nadia Gou{\'{e}} and Timothy J. Griffin and Coline Royaux and Yvan Le Bras and Subina Mehta and Anna Syme and Frederik Coppens and Bert Droesbeke and Nicola Soranzo and Wendi Bacon and Fotis Psomopoulos and Crist{\'{o}}bal Gallardo-Alba and John Davis and Melanie Christine Föll and Matthias Fahrner and Maria A. Doyle and Beatriz Serrano-Solano and Anne Claire Fouilloux and Peter van Heusden and Wolfgang Maier and Dave Clements and Florian Heyl and Björn Grüning and B{\'{e}}r{\'{e}}nice Batut and},
	editor = {Francis Ouellette},
	title = {Galaxy Training: A powerful framework for teaching!},
	journal = {PLoS Comput Biol}
}

                   

Galaxy Administrators: Install the missing tools

You can use Ephemeris's shed-tools install command to install the tools used in this tutorial.

shed-tools install [-g GALAXY] [-a API_KEY] -t <(curl https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/api/topics/community/tutorials/community_content/tutorial.json | jq .admin_install_yaml -r)

Alternatively you can copy and paste the following YAML

---
install_tool_dependencies: true
install_repository_dependencies: true
install_resolver_dependencies: true
tools: []

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