If you're presenting at SAS Global Forum 2019, you want your wisdom to "live on" and travel beyond the halls of the conference, right? You probably already know that your published paper will be part of the proceedings, but what about your code? Or reports? Or slides?
This year, SAS and the conference team have worked together to create a special place on GitHub where you can share any and all of your supporting materials. Check it out here:
https://github.com/sascommunities/sas-global-forum-2019
This step is completely optional for presenters. But, if you take the time to add your content, you'll be helping to preserve and share the great contributions that make up the SAS Global Forum takeaways.
We've seeded the repository with folders and README files for most of the accepted papers. Simply fork the repository, find your folder, add your content, and use a pull request to merge your additions with the repo.
If you're new to GitHub and its unusual lingo/protocols, we're happy to help. Community member @cj_blake, as well as me or @joeFurbee on my team, can lead you through the process or even add materials for you. Just PM any of us on the community, or reply here.
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P.S. - Kudos to @SASJedi for being the first to contribute his materials. If you work with big data with SAS and databases, you'll want to check out his talk!
I believe his links in the README are specified incorrectly. For example, the link https://github.com/sascommunities/sas-global-forum-2019/blob/master/cre8data.sas should really be https://github.com/sascommunities/sas-global-forum-2019/blob/master/3220-2019-Jordan/cre8data.sas (note the 3220-2019-Jordan in the second path, which is needed to point to his subdirectory). You are sent to this location if you click on one of the files listed above the README.
-Brian
No problem! I happened to be looking at this a little bit ago while working to push the supplementary materials for my paper to the git repo (located here, if you're interested).
Also, a tip that I forgot to mention. When you view a file on Github, for some file types, there is a convenient "Download" button, which I think might only appear for files that Github is unable to render. For other file types, instead there is a "Raw" button that enables you to view the raw version of the file. You can either click on that to view the raw version of the file, or if you right click and select "Save link as" you can download the file:
This was not obvious to me when I first started using git and Github, so I thought I would mention it.
-Brian
Hi @TBarker - we are working on scheduling something like that, yes. And you are always welcome to visit us in the SAS Support Communities station in the Quad -- @joeFurbee or I can talk your ear off about GitHub and teach you to fork, clone, pull request, blame, etc.
Are you ready for the spotlight? We're accepting content ideas for SAS Innovate 2025 to be held May 6-9 in Orlando, FL. The call is open until September 25. Read more here about why you should contribute and what is in it for you!