Introduce yourself via a GITHUB_USERNAME.json file under the _data/2016/ directory, and submit via pull request. Remember to first fork your own copy of the repository bbest/ucsb-network-data-science-2016 so that you can write the file to the repo before submitting the pull request.
Here’s an example file at _data/2016/bbest.json
{
"department": "MSI, NCEAS (consultant)",
"interests": "marine biodiversity, ocean health",
"project": "",
"project_url": ""
}
Using the format above, replace with your own department and interests. We’ll update project and project_url later once you’ve decided on a project and have a project URL.
The details of how this works (using Jekyll data files) are beyond the scope of this boot camp, but provides a simple satisfying example for applying the fork & pull request model to a repository for which you do not have write permissions and want to contribute towards.
This technique is borrowed from advanced-js/students: “student directory, for practicing doing pull requests”.