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.
Current work streams
Fiscal Hosting
We are helping early stage organizations with fiscal hosting. Read more about this on our fiscal hosting page. If you are interested, please contact directors at team[at]we-are-ols.org to discuss.
Consultancy and Open Research Advice
We offer different Consultancy services:
- Accessibility Consulting (specially related to running online inclusive calls),
- Ally skills,
- Organisational Leadership.
Fellowship Programmes
We currently host Incubation Fellows, who are working towards building open science/open research communities. Read more about Incubation Fellows on our fiscal hosting page.
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.
Previous work streams
Catalyst
Funded by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the Catalyst Project aimed 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 was the project manager under the supervison of Yo, PI for this project (after Emmy left)
Role in OLS:
Co-Executive Director
Yo is the co-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.
