Re: [O] An Org centric research lab: Goodbye MS word, excel, and powerpoint

[Doyley, Marvin M.]

Thanks John,

The biggest challenge has been getting my team to use emacs, and appreciate its 
power. A few of the students are now comfortable with it, but most are still 
novices, even the computationally savvy  members of my team. For now I am 
forcing everybody to use org as a latex replacement no babel or beamer yet. 
However, In the fall I will mandate that all data analysis (matlab babel) 
should be included with all manuscripts. I notice that you prefer to use python 
rather than matlab. Is there a reason  for this ? Matlab is free at my 
institution so cost  is not an issue.

I welcome any advise or tips you may have 

Best Wishes,

M


On Jul 9, 2014, at 3:08 PM, John Kitchin <address@hidden> wrote:

> That is great! Congratulations, and thanks for sharing. I have also
> converted my group into an org-centric group.  Did you find many
> challenges in implementing this in your group?
> 
> "Doyley, Marvin M." <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> Dear All,
>> 
>> Here is a link to a manuscript my research group produced completely with org
>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v1/url?u=http://medicalimaging.spiedigitallibrary.org/issue.aspx&k=p4Ly7qpEBiYPBVenR9G2iQ%3D%3D%0A&r=Fwb4ac3v7AhcQoTcqa9wemihF49yp0vUvrJ%2BiX5Re4w%3D%0A&m=rV9Ve%2BKzfjY9BDOqxI1YYuowCcKG%2BP5hNOX3zMZtRDA%3D%0A&s=f6e37fd82613c5c7a791b1df10042b390be86728522e227f9316ec27d12c08c1.
>>  
>> 
>> For the last 6 years, I have used org mainly for teaching (beamer),
>> productivity, outlining ideas, and note taking. Inspired by John
>> Kitchin's 2013 Scipy talk, I tried to encourage members of my research
>> group to use Org. Since the gentle approach didn't work, I made it 
>> mandatory requirement that all junior members must generate
>> manuscripts in org, and now I am seeing the fruits of this decision--- we 
>> are now a org-centric  research group :)
>> 
>> I would like to thank  Carsten and all the other contributors for creating 
>> such
>> an awesome research tool. 
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> M
>> 
> 
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