With the Open Incubator, a.k.a the greenhouse, we offer hands-on support to empower the next generation of open leaders in research. This might be for people who have completed Open Seeds and now want to say “what next for my project?”, or it might be individuals.
What makes us different
Current work streams
Catalyst
Funded by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the Catalyst Project aims to develop a collaborative service to facilitate access to cloud infrastructure for biomedical research communities in Latin America and Africa. You can read more about it in the submitted proposal.
Key personnel
Taj is the project manager under the supervison of Yo, PI for this project (after Emmy left)
Role in OLS:
Executive Director, Business and Development Lead
Yo is the executive director and a co-founder of OLS. As an EngD student at the University of Manchester, Yo is studying pathogen-related data sharing and sustainability of open source software.Yo is a founder of Code is Science, and previously, they were editor for the PLOS Open Source Toolkit, editor emeritus at the Journal of Open Source Software, board member of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation, and a software developer at the University of Cambridge, working on an open source biological data warehouse called InterMine.
Role in OLS:
Programme Manager & Catalyst (contract)
Fellowship Programmes
Our flagship incubator service is the Resident Fellow programme, where individuals work with OLS to further OLS’s goals whilst exploring opportunities for personal growth.
Facilitators Training and Transcription Services
During our online training cohorts, we teach facilitators to manage and run cohort calls. They lead efforts in preparing cohort call notes, co-hosting cohort calls and ensuring the sharing of call recordings and resources through OLS channels.
Fiscal Hosting
We are helping early stage organizations with fiscal hosting. If you are interested, please contact directors at team[at]we-are-ols.org to discuss. Read more about this on our fiscal hosting page.
Grant Writing Training
This will come soon. Please let us know if you’d like to fund the development of the curriculum!
Consultancy and Open Research Advice
We offer different Consultancy services:
- Accessibility Consulting (specially related to running online inclusive calls),
- Ally skills,
- Organisational Leadership.