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+# A workshop or short course syllabus
+
+## why
+
+Why not?
+
+To provide a (number) of session(s) on our woRkflow and the tools we use to organise/collaborate/generally make us work more effectively.
+
+## what
+
+An outline of topics covered by such a course might be as follows:
+
+* Why bother?
+	* Organisation and collaboration
+	* Reproducibility
+	* Documentation as-you-go (link to R packages)
+
+* Collaboration tools - overview
+	* Communication: MS Teams/Slack <-> and (Git) integration
+	* 
+
+* Github/Gitlab
+	* Repositories (set up) - integration with R
+	* Collaboration - forking (hell) - branching - developing - merging
+
+——R Specific (optional?) — — 
+
+* Repository structure - recommendations/best practice
+
+* R tools
+	* RStudio: 
+	* Git/RStudio integration: git made simple (for command line/Terminal phobics)
+	* Packages: containers for functions (+ other useful stuff) & documentation as-you-go
+	* Drake: for workflow management and reproducibility
+
+* R tools UoS specific
+	* Soton RStudio server
+
+## who
+
+Everyone!
+
+## how
+