{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/swcarpentry/site/issues/806","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/swcarpentry/site/issues/806/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/swcarpentry/site/issues/806/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/swcarpentry/site/issues/806/events","html_url":"https://github.com/swcarpentry/site/issues/806","id":57159993,"number":806,"title":"What project templates (or \"cookie cutters\") do you use?","user":{"login":"gvwilson","id":911566,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/911566?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/gvwilson","html_url":"https://github.com/gvwilson","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gvwilson/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gvwilson/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gvwilson/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gvwilson/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gvwilson/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gvwilson/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gvwilson/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gvwilson/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gvwilson/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/swcarpentry/site/labels/discussion","name":"discussion","color":"fef2c0"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":14,"created_at":"2015-02-10T11:02:58Z","updated_at":"2015-02-25T21:36:04Z","closed_at":null,"body":" \"Cookie cutter\" projects are quite common — essentially, they are pre-built templates for project that follow some kind of convention for folder structures and basic boilerplate.  Examples include [cookiecutter](https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter) and [Project Template](http://projecttemplate.net/).\r\n\r\nFor Software Carpentry, it serves as a way for us to teach our attendees some best practices while showing them the importance of reproducibility and scripts. It also allows a low barrier of entry to actually set up a project folder structure, since re-organizing folders when a project is fully developed will most likely not happen.\r\n\r\nIf you use cookie cutter project templates of some kind, we'd like to hear about them: please add pointers to this GitHub issue or [mail us directly](mailto:gvwilson@software-carpentry.org)."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/swcarpentry/site/issues/comments/76065493","html_url":"https://github.com/swcarpentry/site/issues/806#issuecomment-76065493","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/swcarpentry/site/issues/806","id":76065493,"user":{"login":"dfalster","id":3589590,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3589590?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/dfalster","html_url":"https://github.com/dfalster","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dfalster/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dfalster/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dfalster/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dfalster/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dfalster/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dfalster/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dfalster/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dfalster/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/dfalster/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-02-25T21:36:04Z","updated_at":"2015-02-25T21:36:04Z","body":"This is an important topic to cover, especially for new users who have files (input/output) and scripts all jumbled in together. @richfitz and I wrote a post on \"Designing projects\" on our blog, http://nicercode.github.io/blog/2013-04-05-projects/. While this stuff may seem elementary to some, it proved [surprisingly popular]((https://twitter.com/search?q=nicercode.github.io%2Fblog%2F2013-04-05-projects%2F).\r\n"}}