workshop materials for a "how to contribute to open source" workshop for researchers
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Still not convinced that GitHub is something you should be using? There’s another great feature: They make it relatively straightforward to create a website for free, using markdown and GitHub pages. This site is written entirely in Markdown and hosted in GitHub - you can browse the code yourself, and even fork it or make pull requests.
You can use it in readme files, tickets, and even to generate websites.
bold text: **bold**
Italic text: _Italic_
~Strikethrough~ text: ~Strikethrough~
Quoted text:
>Quoted text:
# Heading 1
## Heading 2
### Heading 3
Code blocks
``` Code blocks ```
- unordered
- bullet
- points
1. Numbered
2. Bullets
Link to another page: [Link to another page](http://www.google.com)
For a full list, visit GitHub’s Formatting Guide
index.md
. index is always the entry point to any website - the “Default” webpage.Now you need to enable GitHub Pages in order to see it turn into a live website.
GitHub pages
section. Under Source
, select Master branch
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