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+Creating a new workshop
+=======================
+
+There is a central repository for all workshops.
+
+ https://github.com/swcarpentry/workshop
+
+The â\80\9cmasterâ\80\9d branch has the current state-of-the-art source for the
+instructors' projected content, handouts, workshop homepage, etc.
+Different "editions" of material can live side-by-side in subdirectories.
+
+Topics will live in per-subject subdirectories, ideally organized in
+half-day-sized chunks.
+
+ .
+ â\94\9câ\94\80â\94\80 README.md
+ â\94\9câ\94\80â\94\80 debugging
+ â\94\82 â\94\9câ\94\80â\94\80 README.md
+ â\94\82 â\80¦
+ â\94\9câ\94\80â\94\80 make
+ â\94\82 â\94\9câ\94\80â\94\80 README.md
+ â\94\82 â\94\9câ\94\80â\94\80 example-project
+ â\94\82 â\80¦
+ â\94\9câ\94\80â\94\80 python
+ â\94\82 â\94\9câ\94\80â\94\80 README.md
+ â\94\82 â\94\9câ\94\80â\94\80 animals.txt
+ â\94\82 â\80¦
+ â\94\9câ\94\80â\94\80 shell
+ â\94\82 â\80¦
+ â\94\9câ\94\80â\94\80 version-control
+ â\94\82 â\94\9câ\94\80â\94\80 git
+ â\94\82 â\94\82 â\94\9câ\94\80â\94\80 basic
+ â\94\82 â\94\82 â\94\82 â\80¦
+ â\94\82 â\94\82 â\94\94â\94\80â\94\80 advanced
+ â\80¦ â\80¦ â\80¦
+
+ Figure 1: Example directory tree for the current 2012-12-my-workshop
+ tip. Sections should be in half-day-ish chunks. Complicated topics
+ that need more detailed coverage (e.g. version control) can have
+ nested sub-sections.
+
+An instructor preparing for a new workshop should create a
+new, empty repository on the SWC GitHub organization. Material can be
+added to this repositry either by merging from the central repo or simply
+copying in any material.
+
+Developing workshop content
+===========================
+
+If you don't have strong ideas about the content, there's probably not
+much to do here besides tweaking a few workshop-specific bits
+(location, dates, master-index, â\80¦). These changes should go into the
+workshop repository.
+
+If you plan to make significant (but not workshop specific)
+changes to workshop material you should
+make those changes in your personal fork of the central repository. That way
+it's easy to ask for those changes to be included in the central repo via
+a pull request.
+
+Publishing workshop websites
+============================
+
+This is not really part of the workshop-branch vs. workshop-repo
+discussion, but one benefit to the workshop-repo approach is that each
+workshop may have a gh-pages website at
+
+ http://<user>.github.com/<repo>
+ http://swcarpentry.github.com/2012-12-my-workshop
+
+Post-workshop archival
+======================
+
+The workshop repositories are already on the SWC GitHub page, so
+there's nothing to do here.
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