Paper: BCE: Berkeley's Common Scientific Compute Environment for Research and Education (Dav Clark)

Please accept this paper for now - it's in terrible shape, but I promise I'll clean it up. I just wanted to be sure to send a pull request for *something* in time for the deadline (and I'm teaching at an R bootcamp now... oops).
The idea we're proposing (and is happening in some dev shops) is that
everyone in your cohort has a standard *reference*. I'll try to clarify
this more.
On Jul 8, 2014 5:47 AM, "Stefan van der Walt" <notifications@github.com>
wrote:

> In papers/dav_clark/clark_etal.rst:
>
> > +use-cases, we present our current strategy for constructing the Berkeley Common Environment [BCE]_, along with general recommendations for building environments for your own use-cases.
> > +
> > +.. class:: keywords
> > +
> > +   education, reproducibility, virtualization
> > +
> > +Introduction
> > +------------
> > +
> > +  btw- I have never setup for this LaTeX workflow, so the make_paper.sh
> > +  fails for me miserably. Therefore, no advanced formatting and very probably
> > +  more basic errors right now.. but, the prose is coming along
> > +
> > +  --One of the Authors
> > +
> > +As you can see in the quote above, even the "simple" task of compiling this paper required tooling that was not obvious to at least one author! Presumably, most *readers* of this paper will have dealt with far more complex demands in the course of instruction, collaboration, or shipping professional software. The process of introducing novices to new software is made unnecessarily complex due to the variety of potential end-user environments (e.g., Mac, Windows, \*nix), and even methods that authors might have used to set up Python on their machine (e.g., Anaconda, Canopy, python.org).
>
> The word "unnecessarily" is strange to me; it suggests that in an ideal
> world there is only one operating system, hardware platform, etc.
>
> As for the paper tools (whether the comment was intended that way or not),
> I understand that this is a new and strange environment and that it's not
> the most approachable for everyone. Perhaps we can look at Authorea in the
> future?
>
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