How to start a GitHub repo for your research project

This guide will help you to start your new research project on GitHub. It will explain the central parts for a solid foundation from which others can easily contribute to your project or are able to reuse your results. There is no perfect way of setting up a new repository so I will try to provide examples for cases where certain steps/parts are important. Please feel free to contribute to the collection and resources of this repository.

Content

1. License

2. Code of Conduct

3. Contributing Instructions

4. Data Management Plan

5. Roadmap

6. Open Lab Notebook

7. Archiving

8. Software Management

Getting started

How to use git and GitHub

Basic git tutorial