Best Practices of Facilitation

This repository (and associated website) serves as the official home of the Best Practices of Facilitation developed by participants in the NSF project ACI-REF.

Contributing

This documentation represents the collective experience and understanding of ACI-REF participants; however, we recognize that our experiences are not comprehensive or authoritative. We welcome responses, suggestions and contributions to this material, to make it fully representative of the research support community it describes.

Before contributing, we recommend that you read the Introduction in order to understand the purpose and method behind this documentation.

There are two primary ways to contribute:

For those familiar with GitHub

Please visit our [repository for this website](https://github.com/aci-ref/facilitation_best_practices). All html pages are generated from plain-text Markdown (.md) files for easy editing and contribution of suggested changes via pull requests. You can:

• Open a "New Issue", to describe your suggestion or question.
• Fork the "facilitation-best-practices" repository to your own GitHub account, make edits, and then submit a "New Pull Request"

For those less familiar with GitHub

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Website Theme

The website theme is a slightly modified version of Beautiful Jekyll, developed by Dean Aattali. Many thanks to him for this simple, and easy-to-use resource!