As an alternative to installing the workshop environment on your laptop, it is possible to use the SciServer service. Our colleagues at the NASA Astronomical Virtual Observatories (NAVO) have set up a SciServer image for their archive access workshop. You can install the Astropy workshop materials and necessary packages into a SciServer container.
If you don't have one already, create an account on SciServer.
Log into SciServer in a web browser. From the User Dashboard, select Compute.
On the Compute tab, select Create container. Choose a name for your container, like "Astropy Workshop". Select the NAVO-workshop image. Then press the Create button.
On the resulting tab, click on the name of your container. A Jupyterlab instance will appear in a new browser tab.
In Jupyterlab, open a Terminal. It will show (navo-env) in the command-line
prompt.
In the Terminal, do cd ~/workspace. If you want to keep your workshop files
in persistent storage (that will still be around after your container is
deleted), instead do cd ~/workspace/Storage/<username>/persistent where
you will replace <username> with your SciServer username.
In the same Terminal, do
git clone https://github.com/astropy/astropy-workshop
Change directory with
cd astropy-workshop/00-Install_and_Setup
Install all the packages needed for the workshop with
pip install -r requirements.txt
Run the package checking script with
python check_env.py
Use the Jupyterlab file browser to navigate to and open workshop notebooks.
For each notebook, change the notebook kernel by clicking on
Python 3 (ipykernel) in the upper right corner, and select the
navo-env kernel.