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Prepare a workshop

The DSRI is a good platform to run a training or class within Maastricht University.

Request VPN accounts for users​

If the users are students from Maastricht University, or not from Maastricht University (without an email @maastrichtuniversity.nl, or @maastro.nl), you will need to contact the ICT support of your department to request the creation of accounts so that your users can connect to the UM VPN.

At FSE, you will need to send an email to lo-fse@maastrichtuniversity.nl and DSRI-SUPPORT-L@maastrichtuniversity.nl with the following information:

  • Emails of the users
  • Why they need access to the DSRI (provide the ID of the course at Maastricht University if it is for a course)
  • Until which date the users will need those VPN accounts

Fill a form​

Fill this form 📬 to give us more details on your project (you don't need to do it if you have already filled it in the past).

Prepare you workshop​

Use the DSRI documentation to explain to your users how to access the DSRI.

Publish an image for your training​

Feel free to use the existing templates for JupyterLab, RStudio, or Visual Studio Code in the DSRI catalog.

You can easily reuse our images to adapt it to your training need and install all required dependencies:

Then you will just need to instruct your users to start an existing templates with your newly published image.

With the JupyterLab template you can also prepare a git repository to be cloned in the workspace as soon as they start it.

You can find some examples of python scripts with database to run on the DSRI in this repository: https://github.com/MaastrichtU-IDS/dsri-demo

Show your users how to start a workspace​

You can use this video showing how to start a RStudio workspace, the process is similar for JupyterLab and VisualStudio Code: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0BjotH1LiE

Otherwise just do it directly with them.