OLS-2 schedule

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During the program,

  • Mentors and mentees meet every 2 weeks for a 30 minutes call
  • Mentees participate every ~2 weeks to 90-minutes cohort calls during which the program leaders introduce new topics and resources, facilitate break-out discussions, and invite experts from the field to give talks
  • Mentees can participate to skill-up, Q&A or coworking sessions in the weeks without cohort calls
  • Mentors take part in mentoring workshop and calls

Organizers will inform participants of the week schedule by email.

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Week Call Date Topic Agenda
Week 01(start. August 31, 2020) Mentor-Mentee   Meet your mentor! Meet each other and discuss your personal motivation, expectations, working practices and project goals
  Mentor September 1, 2020 (16:00 Universal Time) Mentor training  
  Mentor September 4, 2020 (11:30 Universal Time) Mentor training  
Week 02(start. September 07, 2020) Mentor September 8, 2020 (09:00 Universal Time) Mentoring workshop  
  Mentor September 8, 2020 (16:00 Universal Time) Mentoring workshop  
  Cohort September 10, 2020 (08:00 Universal Time) Welcome to Open Life Science! Meet other members of your cohort, Share project vision, Intro to working openly (open canvas)
Week 03(start. September 14, 2020) Mentor-Mentee   Meet your mentor! Discuss assignments from the cohort call & concrete implementations
  Coworking September 17, 2020 (15:00 Universal Time) Coworking on assignments, knowledge exchange and networking  
Week 04(start. September 21, 2020) Cohort September 24, 2020 (16:30 Universal Time) Tooling and roadmapping for Open projects Working with GitHub as a community hub: Markdown as a tool to make websites, Licence, Goals and Roadmap, Contributors, Code of Conduct
Week 05(start. September 28, 2020) Mentor-Mentee   Meet your mentor!  
  Coworking October 01, 2020 (15:00 Universal Time) Coworking on assignments, knowledge exchange and networking  
  Cohort October 01, 2020 (11:30 Universal Time) Skill-up: GitHub tutorial for beginners  
  Skill-up October 01, 2020 (11:30 Universal Time) GitHub tutorial for beginners  
Week 06(start. October 05, 2020) Cohort October 08, 2020 (08:00 Universal Time) Open Science I: Project Development Developing Open Projects: Iterative and agile project management, Open- Source, Software, Hardware, Data
Week 07(start. October 12, 2020) Mentor-Mentee   Meet your mentor!  
  Coworking October 12, 2020 (10:00 Universal Time) Coworking on assignments, knowledge exchange and networking  
  Mentor   Mentor training  
Week 08(start. October 19, 2020) Cohort October 22, 2020 (16:30 Universal Time) Open Science II: Knowledge Dissemination Sharing Open Project: Preprint publications, DOI and citation, Open protocols, Open Education & Training
Week 09(start. October 26, 2020) Mentor-Mentee   Meet your mentor!  
  Coworking October 29, 2020 Coworking on assignments, knowledge exchange and networking  
  Skill-up October 29, 2020 (15:00 Universal Time) Personal Ecology and Ally Skills  
Week 10(start. November 02, 2020) Cohort November 05, 2020 (09:00 Universal Time) Open Science III: Next steps - applying FAIR research principles FAIRification of existing or mature projects, etc
Week 11(start. November 09, 2020) Mentor-Mentee   Meet your mentor!  
Week 12(start. November 16, 2020) Cohort November 19, 2020 (17:30 Universal Time) Open Leadership: Academia, industry and beyond!  
Week 13(start. November 23, 2020) Mentor-Mentee   Meet your mentor!  
  Cohort November 26, 2020 (14:00 Universal Time) Pub Quiz!  
  Skill-up October 26, 2020 (14:00 Universal Time) Pub Quiz!  
Week 14(start. November 30, 2020) Cohort December 03, 2020 (09:00 Universal Time) Designing & Empowering for inclusivity  
Week 15(start. December 07, 2020) Mentor-Mentee   Meet your mentor! Preparation for the final demos
  Cohort December 10, 2020 (09:00 Universal Time) Final presentation rehearsal - Group 1  
  Cohort December 10, 2020 (17:30 Universal Time) Final presentation rehearsal - Group 2  
Week 16(start. December 14, 2020) Cohort December 15, 2020 (09:00 Universal Time) Final presentations & Graduation! - Group 1 5-minute demos of projects (Audience: entire community & public, Open and recorded call)
  Cohort December 16, 2020 (14:00 Universal Time) Final presentations & Graduation! - Group 2 5-minute demos of projects (Audience: entire community & public, Open and recorded call)
  Cohort December 17, 2020 (17:30 Universal Time) Final presentations & Graduation! - Group 3 5-minute demos of projects (Audience: entire community & public, Open and recorded call)

Week 01 Week starting on August 31, 2020

Mentor-Mentee call: Meet your mentor!

Date: During the week starting on August 31, 2020 (to define with mentors)

Duration: 30 min

In this call

This is your first meeting with your OLS mentor. This call should include you and your mentor. If you are working on a team of up to (and no more than) 3 registered participants, you can all meet together with your mentor.

These 30-minute meetings will happen every other week during OLS. The default time is during your cohort call time. Your mentor will reach out to you this week to confirm when and where you’ll be meeting.

In your first meeting with your mentor, introduce yourselves and then:

  • Make sure you have your GitHub account set up
  • Review your self-assessment
  • Set 1-2 personal open science goals for yourself
  • Set 1-2 open culture goals for your community, organization, or project

Document your goals in your shared notes; you will return to these goals frequently to assess your progress towards meeting them.

Before the call

    • Create an account on GitHub
    • Complete your own copy of the open leadership self-assessment and share it with your mentor

      If you’re a group, each teammate should complete this assessment individually. This is here to help you set your own personal goals during the program. No need to share your results, but be ready to share your thoughts with your mentor.

    • Make sure you know when and how you’ll be meeting with your mentor

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After the call

    • Create an issue on the OLS-2 GitHub repository for your OLS work and share the link with your mentor
    • Draft a brief vision statement using your goals

      This lesson from the Open Leadership Training Series (OLTS) might be helpful

      You might address:

      • The problem you’re trying to solve.
      • How you think openness and open leadership will help solve it.
      • How meeting your personal goals will help you and help solve the problem.
      • How meeting your cultural goals for your community, organization, or project will help solve the problem.
    • Add your vision statement to your GitHub issue
    • Check the Syllabus for notes and connection info for all the cohort calls

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Mentor call: Mentor training

Date: September 1, 2020, at 16:00 Universal Time

Duration: 60 min

In this call

During our first cohort call, you will:

  • Understand common successes and challenges in mentoring OLS participants.
  • Know how to celebrate successes and approach challenges in mentoring OLS participants.

Mentor call: Mentor training

Date: September 4, 2020, at 11:30 Universal Time

Duration: 60 min

In this call

During our first cohort call, you will:

  • Understand common successes and challenges in mentoring OLS participants.
  • Know how to celebrate successes and approach challenges in mentoring OLS participants.

Week 02 Week starting on September 07, 2020

Mentor call: Mentoring workshop

Date: September 8, 2020, at 09:00 Universal Time

Duration: 180 min

Mentor call: Mentoring workshop

Date: September 8, 2020, at 16:00 Universal Time

Duration: 180 min

Cohort call: Welcome to Open Life Science!

Date: September 10, 2020, at 08:00 Universal Time ( Add to your calendar)

Duration: 90 min

Hosts: Bérénice Batut, Yo Yehudi, Malvika Sharan

In this call

During our first cohort call, we will:

  • Say hello and introduce ourselves.
  • Review our Community Participation Guidelines.
  • Review our definition of open leadership.
  • Unpack the differences between “open by default” and “open by design”
  • Learn about common community interactions in open projects.
  • Learn about common value exchanges between community members in open science

Haven’t heard from your mentor yet? Let us know.

Before the call

    • Add your vision statement to your GitHub issue.

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After the call

    • Look up two other projects and comment on their issues with feedback on their vision statement
    • Complete this compare and contrast assignment about current and desired community interactions and value exchanges
    • Complete your Open Canvas (instructions, canvas)
    • Share a link to your Open Canvas in your GitHub issue
    • Start your Roadmap
    • Comment on your issue with your draft Roadmap
    • Suggest a cohort name at the bottom of the shared notes and vote on your favorite with a +1

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Week 03 Week starting on September 14, 2020

Mentor-Mentee call: Meet your mentor!

Date: During the week starting on September 14, 2020 (to define with mentors)

Duration: 30 min

In this call

During this week’s mentor meeting, you will:

  • Establish a check-in ritual.
  • Establish a gratitude ritual.
  • Review your goals and any progress you’ve made towards them.
  • Review your community interactions and value exchanges assignment.
  • Review your repo and get any help you need adding your vision statement, open canvas, and open license to it.
  • Identify any experts you’d like to invite to your next mentor meeting.

Haven’t heard from your mentor yet? Let us know.

Before the call

    • Complete your week 2 assignments.

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After the call

    • Complete any week 2 assignments that you have left to do
    • Look up two other projects and comment on their GitHub issues with feedback on their open canvas
    • Rework on your vision statement
      • Write your vision in the Up-Goer 5 editor
      • Refine it with the editor’s help
      • Paste it in your GitHub issue
      • Read it to the Breakout room friends during the next call and hear their feedback :)
      • Other possibility: Hemingway Editor

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Coworking call: Coworking on assignments, knowledge exchange and networking

Date: September 17, 2020, at 15:00 Universal Time ( Add to your calendar)

Duration: 60 min

In this call

During this week’s coworking call, you will:

  • take some time to get to know each other over informal networking opportunity
  • start coworking session

Before the call

    • Brew yourself a nice tea, coffee, or any drink of your choice and bring them along to this call.

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After the call

    • Continue on with your project, and connect with others on Gitter or other social media platforms.

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Week 04 Week starting on September 21, 2020

Cohort call: Tooling and roadmapping for Open projects

Date: September 24, 2020, at 16:30 Universal Time ( Add to your calendar)

Duration: 90 min

Hosts: Yo Yehudi, Malvika Sharan, Emmy Tsang

In this call

During this week’s cohort call, we will:

  • Look at project structure as we build open projects
  • Go over the standard files in open projects
    • README
    • LICENSE
    • CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
    • CONTRIBUTING.md

    The exact project structure and files used may look different on your project.

Before the call

    • Look up two other projects and comment on their GitHub issues with feedback on their open canvas
    • Rework on your vision statement
      • Write your vision in the Up-Goer 5 editor
      • Refine it with the editor’s help
      • Paste it in your GitHub issue
      • Read it to the Breakout room friends during the next call and hear their feedback :)
      • Other possibility: Hemingway Editor

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After the call

    • Create a GitHub repository for your project
    • Add the link to your repository in your issue
    • Use your canvas to start writing a README.md file, or landing page, for your project
    • Link your README in a comment on this issue
    • Add an open license to your repository as a file called LICENSE.md
    • Add a Code of Conduct to your repository as a file called CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
    • Check the Friendly GitHub Intro

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Week 05 Week starting on September 28, 2020

Mentor-Mentee call: Meet your mentor!

Date: During the week starting on September 28, 2020 (to define with mentors)

Duration: 30 min

Before the call

    • Complete your week 4 assignments

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After the call

    • Complete any week 4 assignments that you have left to do.

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Coworking call: Coworking on assignments, knowledge exchange and networking

Date: October 01, 2020, at 15:00 Universal Time

Duration: 60 min

Hosts: Kate Simpson

Cohort call: Skill-up: GitHub tutorial for beginners

Date: October 01, 2020, at 11:30 Universal Time ( Add to your calendar)

Duration: 90 min

Hosts: Yo Yehudi, Malvika Sharan, Cassandra Gould Van Praag, Markus Löning

In this call

During this week’s cohort call, we will give you an optional 1 hour GitHub tutorial covering:

  • Creating a repository
  • Writing in Markdown
  • Creating a README file
  • Enabling a small website via GitHub
  • Managing issues and labels
  • Submit changes via Pull Request

Before the call

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Skill-up call: GitHub tutorial for beginners

Date: October 01, 2020, at 11:30 Universal Time

Duration: 90 min

Talks

Resources

Week 06 Week starting on October 05, 2020

Cohort call: Open Science I: Project Development

Date: October 08, 2020, at 08:00 Universal Time ( Add to your calendar)

Duration: 90 min

Hosts: Yo Yehudi, Malvika Sharan, Emmy Tsang

In this call

During this week’s cohort call, we will cover :

  • Agile and iterative project management methods
  • Open Source Software
  • Open Hardware
  • Open Data

Before the call

    • Look up two other projects and comment on their issues with feedback on their README

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After the call

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Week 07 Week starting on October 12, 2020

Mentor-Mentee call: Meet your mentor!

Date: During the week starting on October 12, 2020 (to define with mentors)

Duration: 30 min

Before the call

    • Complete your week 6 assignments.

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After the call

    • Complete any week 6 assignments that you have left to do.

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Coworking call: Coworking on assignments, knowledge exchange and networking

Date: October 12, 2020, at 10:00 Universal Time

Duration: 60 min

Hosts: Laura Carter

Mentor call: Mentor training

Date: During the week starting on October 12, 2020 (to define with mentors)

Duration: 60 min

In this call

During our first cohort call, you will:

  • Share your experience been so far as a mentor in OLS-1
  • Learn about the GROW model

Week 08 Week starting on October 19, 2020

Cohort call: Open Science II: Knowledge Dissemination

Date: October 22, 2020, at 16:30 Universal Time ( Add to your calendar)

Duration: 90 min

Hosts: Yo Yehudi, Malvika Sharan, Emmy Tsang

In this call

During this week’s cohort call, we will:

  • Preprint publications, DOI and citation
  • Open protocols
  • Open Education & Training
  • Citizen Science

Before the call

  • None

Talks

Resources

Week 09 Week starting on October 26, 2020

Mentor-Mentee call: Meet your mentor!

Date: During the week starting on October 26, 2020 (to define with mentors)

Duration: 30 min

Coworking call: Coworking on assignments, knowledge exchange and networking

Date: October 29, 2020

Duration: 60 min

Skill-up call: Personal Ecology and Ally Skills

Date: October 29, 2020, at 15:00 Universal Time ( Add to your calendar)

Duration: 90 min

Hosts: Yo Yehudi, Malvika Sharan, Emmy Tsang, Hao Ye

In this call

During this week’s cohort call, we will hold a skill-up session on Personal Ecology and Ally Skills:

  • Discuss the importance of taking care your our mental health and avoiding burn out for both project leaders and community members
  • Understanding our societal privileges and stepping up for our colleagues and community as an ally

Before the call

    • Personal Ecology and self care

      Think about how you might briefly answer the following questions

      • Imagine your most fulfilling day at work. Think of 3 word-pairs to describe it.
      • Imagine your most Unfulfilling day at work. Think of 3 word-pairs to describe it.

      The big idea: identify the most fulfilling conditions under which you thrive - sustain them; identify the least fulfilling conditions that frustrate you - avoid them.

    • Preparing for the Ally Skills

      Think how people step up for you in social scenarios and how you step up for them to support each othe:

      • What do your colleagues do to make your workplace inclusive for you?
      • What do you do to make your workplace inclusive for them?

      The big idea: Based on your experience, what would you consider doing to make your project inclusive for your contributors or team members?

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Week 10 Week starting on November 02, 2020

Cohort call: Open Science III: Next steps - applying FAIR research principles

Date: November 05, 2020, at 09:00 Universal Time ( Add to your calendar)

Duration: 90 min

Hosts: Yo Yehudi, Emmy Tsang, Bérénice Batut

In this call

During this week’s cohort call, we will discuss how to apply FAIR research principles on data, software, training

FAIR stands for findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable. The ideal is that research should be “as open as possible, as restricted as necessary.”

After the call

  • Think about and plan to apply FAIR principles to your project in your own time

Week 11 Week starting on November 09, 2020

Mentor-Mentee call: Meet your mentor!

Date: During the week starting on November 09, 2020 (to define with mentors)

Duration: 30 min

Week 12 Week starting on November 16, 2020

Cohort call: Open Leadership: Academia, industry and beyond!

Date: November 19, 2020, at 17:30 Universal Time ( Add to your calendar)

Duration: 90 min

Hosts: Yo Yehudi, Emmy Tsang, Malvika Sharan

In this call

During this week’s cohort call, we will:

  • Hear from the professionals from different career paths
  • Ask them questions about their careers
  • Share worries/insecurities related to your work and tips that you use to overcome them

Before the call

  • A few days before the event, think about how you might briefly answer the following questions (ref: https://www.bu.edu/lernet/pathways/organizers/panel.html):

  • how did you choose your career ?
  • what did you study to prepare ?
  • what do you actually do at work on a typical day ?
  • have you ever felt discriminated against (e.g. due to gender, race, ethnicity…) and how did you respond ?
  • do you have a life outside your work ? a family ? hobbies ?
  • what advice would you give someone wanting to enter your field ?
  • on a scale of 1-10 (10 being the most), how much do you enjoy your current work?
  • do you want to switch your career or field? Why or why not?

Week 13 Week starting on November 23, 2020

Mentor-Mentee call: Meet your mentor!

Date: During the week starting on November 23, 2020 (to define with mentors)

Duration: 30 min

Cohort call: Pub Quiz!

Date: November 26, 2020, at 14:00 Universal Time ( Add to your calendar)

Duration: 60 min

Hosts: Yo Yehudi, Malvika Sharan

Before the call

    • Brew yourself a nice tea, coffee, or any drink of your choice and bring them along to this call.

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Talks

Resources

After the call

    • Continue on with your project, and connect with others on Gitter or other social media platforms.

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Skill-up call: Pub Quiz!

Date: October 26, 2020, at 14:00 Universal Time

Duration: 90 min

Talks

Resources

Week 14 Week starting on November 30, 2020

Cohort call: Designing & Empowering for inclusivity

Date: December 03, 2020, at 09:00 Universal Time

Duration: 90 min

Week 15 Week starting on December 07, 2020

Mentor-Mentee call: Meet your mentor!

Date: During the week starting on December 07, 2020 (to define with mentors)

Duration: 30 min

In this call

During this week’s mentor meeting, you will:

  • Review your project with your mentor
  • Thank your mentor if this is your last mentor call in OLS-2.

Before the call

    • Review your project and identify important aspects that you can discuss with your mentor

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Cohort call: Final presentation rehearsal - Group 1

Date: December 10, 2020, at 09:00 Universal Time

Duration: 90 min

Hosts: Yo Yehudi, Emmy Tsang, Malvika Sharan

In this call

During this week’s cohort call, we will:

  • Learn about giving and receiving feedback
  • Conduct rehearsal for the final presentation from the project leads registered

Before the call

    • Come prepared to share a 5 mins presentation of your project

      Your presentation can be in the form of a demo, short 1-2 slides presentation or walk through your website

      This could also be only the highlights from your presentation

      Use this HackMD template to guide your talk (OLS team should have shared link to your project HackMD via email)

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Talks

Resources

After the call

    • Integrate changes suggested in this call to your final talk of 5 minutes to be presented a week later

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Cohort call: Final presentation rehearsal - Group 2

Date: December 10, 2020, at 17:30 Universal Time

Duration: 90 min

Hosts: Yo Yehudi, Emmy Tsang, Malvika Sharan

In this call

During this week’s cohort call, we will:

  • Learn about giving and receiving feedback
  • Conduct rehearsal for the final presentation from the project leads registered

Before the call

    • Come prepared to share a 5 mins presentation of your project

      Your presentation can be in the form of a demo, short 1-2 slides presentation or walk through your website

      This could also be only the highlights from your presentation

      Use this HackMD template to guide your talk (OLS team should have shared link to your project HackMD via email)

</ul>

Talks

Resources

After the call

    • Integrate changes suggested in this call to your final talk of 5 minutes to be presented a week later

</ul>

Week 16 Week starting on December 14, 2020

Cohort call: Final presentations & Graduation! - Group 1

Date: December 15, 2020, at 09:00 Universal Time

Duration: 60 min

Hosts: Yo Yehudi, Emmy Tsang, Malvika Sharan, Bérénice Batut

In this call

During this week’s cohort call, we will:

  • Witness the final presentations from the project leads registered in Group 1 and see them graduate.

Before the call

    • Come prepared to share a 5 mins presentation of your project

      Your presentation can be in the form of a demo, short presentation or a walk through your website

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Talks

Resources

After the call

    • Celebrate your graduation from OLS-2!

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Cohort call: Final presentations & Graduation! - Group 2

Date: December 16, 2020, at 14:00 Universal Time

Duration: 60 min

Hosts: Yo Yehudi, Emmy Tsang, Malvika Sharan

In this call

During this week’s cohort call, we will:

  • Witness the final presentations from the project leads registered in Group 2 and see them graduate.

Before the call

    • Come prepared to share a 5 mins presentation of your project

      Your presentation can be in the form of a demo, short presentation or a walk through your website

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Talks

Resources

After the call

    • Celebrate your graduation from OLS-2!

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Cohort call: Final presentations & Graduation! - Group 3

Date: December 17, 2020, at 17:30 Universal Time

Duration: 60 min

Hosts: Yo Yehudi, Emmy Tsang, Malvika Sharan

In this call

During this week’s cohort call, we will:

  • Witness the final presentations from the project leads registered in Group 3 and see them graduate.

Before the call

    • Come prepared to share a 5 mins presentation of your project

      Your presentation can be in the form of a demo, short presentation or a walk through your website

</ul>

Talks

Resources

After the call

    • Celebrate your graduation from OLS-2!

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