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During the program,
Organizers will inform participants of the week schedule by email.
Date: During the week starting on September 13, 2021 (to define with mentors)
Duration: 30 min
At the end of this call, learners will be able to:
Meet each other
Discuss their personal motivation, expectations, workin practices and project goals
In this call, participants will:
Date: September 16, 2021, at 16:00 Universal Time
Duration: 60 min
At the end of this call, learners will be able to:
Understand common successes and challenges in mentoring OLS participants
Know how to celebrate successes and approach challenges in mentoring OLS participants.
In this call, participants will:
Date: September 17, 2021, at 10:00 Universal Time
Duration: 60 min
At the end of this call, learners will be able to:
Understand common successes and challenges in mentoring OLS participants
Know how to celebrate successes and approach challenges in mentoring OLS participants.
In this call, participants will:
Date: September 22, 2021, at 13:30 Universal Time
Duration: 90 min
Hosts: Yo Yehudi, Emmy Tsang, Bérénice Batut
At the end of this call, learners will be able to:
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
In this call, participants will:
Add your vision statement to your GitHub issue
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
Date: September 22, 2021, at 18:00 Universal Time
Duration: 180 min
Date: September 23, 2021, at 10:00 Universal Time
Duration: 180 min
Date: During the week starting on September 27, 2021 (to define with mentors)
Duration: 30 min
Date: September 29, 2021, at 18:00 Universal Time
Duration: 90 min
Hosts: Yo Yehudi, Emmy Tsang, Malvika Sharan
At the end of this call, learners will be able to:
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
In this call, participants will:
Add your vision statement to your GitHub issue
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
Date: October 06, 2021, at 18:00 Universal Time
Duration: 90 min
Hosts: Yo Yehudi, Emmy Tsang, Emma Karoune
At the end of this call, learners will be able to:
Look at project structure as we build open projects
Go over the standard files in open projects
The exact project structure and files used may look different on your project.
In this call, participants will:
The exact project structure and files used may look different on your project.
Look up two other projects and comment on their GitHub issues with feedback on their open canvas
Rework on your vision statement
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 projectLink 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
Date: During the week starting on October 11, 2021 (to define with mentors)
Duration: 30 min
Date: October 13, 2021, at 13:30 Universal Time
Duration: 90 min
Hosts: Yo Yehudi, Malvika Sharan
At the end of this call, learners will be able to:
Create a GitHub repository
Write in Markdown
Create a README file
Enable a small website via GitHub
Managing issues and labels
Submit changes via Pull Request
In this call, participants will:
Please create a GitHub account: https://github.com
Have a look at the OLS-4 repository for ‘project issues’
Comment of 1-2 project’s recent post (vision, open canvas etc.)
Create your ‘project issue’ as described here
Date: October 20, 2021, at 13:30 Universal Time
Duration: 90 min
Hosts: Yo Yehudi, Malvika Sharan, Emmy Tsang, Michael Landi
At the end of this call, learners will be able to:
Hear about Iterative Project management
Get familiar with Open Software, Open Hardware, Research Data Management
In this call, participants will:
Look up two other projects and comment on their issues with feedback on their README
Get your project online For help with GitHub and GitPages, check the slides and video from week 05
Create a project development plan for your project Assignment to help you use Agile methods to breakdown your milestones into smaller tasks and define a timeline for your milestones In your own time: After this assignment, you can transfer your tasks to a project management or kanban tools such as GitHub projects), Trello, Asana, Zenhub in GitHub
Start creating a contribution guideline for your community
Date: During the week starting on October 25, 2021 (to define with mentors)
Duration: 30 min
Date: October 27, 2021, at 18:00 Universal Time
Duration: 30 min
Date: November 03, 2021, at 18:00 Universal Time
Duration: 90 min
Hosts: Danny Garside, Yo Yehudi, Emmy Tsang
At the end of this call, learners will be able to:
Learn how to develop Open collaboration by design
Hear Mountain of engagement and community interactions
Learn about Personas and pathways and welcoming new contributors
In this call, participants will:
Using Personas and Pathways to Build Community by Batool Almarzouq
Welcoming new contributors + Thinking about community interactions by Anna e só
Personas & pathways assignment
Think through community interactions
Complete the midterm survey
Date: During the week starting on November 08, 2021 (to define with mentors)
Duration: 30 min
Date: November 10, 2021, at 13:30 Universal Time
Duration: 90 min
At the end of this call, learners will be able to:
Hear from the professionals from different career paths
Ask them questions about their careers
Share worries/insecurities related to your career path, profession or area of work
Tips and advice to overcome challenges as an open researcher
In this call, participants will:
A few days before the event, think about how you might briefly answer the following questions (source): 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?
Post-academia career path, Social entrepreneurship by Manuel Corpas
Academic leadership, group or project leaders
Community building, Science Communication
Policymakers, funders, meta-researchers by Aki MacFarlane
Date: November 17, 2021, at 13:30 Universal Time
Duration: 90 min
At the end of this call, learners will be able to:
Practicing open science
DOI and citations: Paper, data, preprints, blogs
Non-tradtional publication: pre-registrations, code, protocols, training materials
Public engagement: Citizen Science/Participatory research, Scientific communication
In this call, participants will:
Create a project development plan for your project
You can transfer your tasks to a project management or kanban tools such as GitHub projects (short intro), Trello, Asana, Zenhub in GitHub
Make sure that by now you have added a license, contribution guideline and a Code of Conduct in your GitHub repository. If you feel stuck and don’t know where you start, take a look at this repo
Look up two other projects and comment on their issue with feedback on their project
Usable, comprehensive, accessible, FAIR and empowering training - The case of the Galaxy Training Network by Bérénice Batut
Date: During the week starting on November 22, 2021 (to define with mentors)
Duration: 30 min
Date: November 24, 2021, at 18:00 Universal Time
Duration: 30 min
Date: December 01, 2021, at 18:00 Universal Time
Duration: 90 min
Go to https://implicit.harvard.edu complete the ‘Gender - Career’ or ‘Gender - Science’ quiz (10 minutes)
Think how people step up for you in social scenarios and how you step up for them to support each other:
Date: During the week starting on December 06, 2021 (to define with mentors)
Duration: 30 min
Date: December 08, 2021, at 13:30 Universal Time
Duration: 90 min
At the end of this call, learners will be able to:
Discuss the importance of taking care of mental health and avoiding burn out for both project leaders and community members
In this call, participants will:
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.
Date: December 15, 2021, at 12:30 Universal Time
Duration: 90 min
In this call, participants will:
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Date: December 15, 2021, at 13:30 Universal Time
Duration: 90 min
At the end of this call, learners will be able to:
Learn how to apply FAIR research principles on data, software, training to make research “as open as possible, as restricted as necessary.”
In this call, participants will:
The future of Open Science? DMPs and FAIR data by Patricia Herterich
Open / citizen sience, the only way to by Yvan Le Bras
Software citation with the Citation File Format by Stephan Druskat
Think about and plan to apply FAIR principles to your project in your own time
Date: During the week starting on January 10, 2022 (to define with mentors)
Duration: 30 min
Date: January 11, 2022, at 10:00 Universal Time
Duration: 60 min
At the end of this call, learners will be able to:
Learn about giving and receiving feedback
Conduct rehearsal for the final presentation from the project leads registered
In this call, participants will:
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.
Date: January 12, 2022, at 15:00 Universal Time
Duration: 60 min
At the end of this call, learners will be able to:
Learn about giving and receiving feedback
Conduct rehearsal for the final presentation from the project leads registered
In this call, participants will:
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.
Date: January 13, 2022, at 18:00 Universal Time
Duration: 60 min
At the end of this call, learners will be able to:
Learn about giving and receiving feedback
Conduct rehearsal for the final presentation from the project leads registered
In this call, participants will:
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.
Date: January 18, 2022, at 10:00 Universal Time
Duration: 60 min
At the end of this call, learners will be able to:
Share a 5 mins presentation of their project
Celebrate OLS-4 success
In this call, participants will:
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.
Date: January 19, 2022, at 15:00 Universal Time
Duration: 60 min
At the end of this call, learners will be able to:
Share a 5 mins presentation of their project
Celebrate OLS-4 success
In this call, participants will:
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.
Date: January 20, 2022, at 18:00 Universal Time
Duration: 60 min
At the end of this call, learners will be able to:
Share a 5 mins presentation of their project
Celebrate OLS-4 success
In this call, participants will:
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.