OLS-6 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

OLS schedule overview. In the middle, the timeline represents the 16 weeks. On the top, boxes in green represent the 8 different cohort calls pointing to the corresponding weeks (even week numbers). Below the week timeline, blue boxes represent the mentor-mentee meetings pointing to the uneven number weeks. Below the blue boxes, are red boxes corresponding to 3 skill-up calls: "GitHub tutorial for beginners" (week 5), "Open Leadership: Academia, industry, and beyond" (week 9), "Self-care & social call" (week 1s)

Organizers will inform participants of the week schedule by email.

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Week Call Date Topic Agenda
Week 00(start. ) Mentor September 16, 2022 (09:00 Universal Time) Mentor Skill Workshop by 360 Training - Group 1  
Week 01(start. September 19, 2022) Mentor-Mentee   1st mentor-mentee meeting  
  Mentor September 21, 2022 (11:00 Universal Time) Mentor onboarding group 2  
Week 02(start. September 26, 2022) Mentor (16:00 Universal Time) Mentor Skill Workshop by 360 Training - Group 1  
  Mentor September 27, 2022 (13:30 Universal Time) Mentor Skill Workshop by 360 Training - Group 2  
  Cohort September 27, 2022 (10:00 Universal Time) Welcome to Open Life Science!  
  Mentor September 29, 2022 (17:00 Universal Time) Mentor Skill Workshop by 360 Training - Group 3  
Week 03(start. October 03, 2022) Mentor-Mentee   2nd mentor-mentee meeting  
  Cohort October 05, 2022 (17:00 Universal Time) Welcome to Open Life Science!  
Week 04(start. October 10, 2022) Cohort October 12, 2022 (17:00 Universal Time) Tooling and roadmapping for Open projects  
Week 05(start. October 17, 2022) Mentor-Mentee   3rd mentor-mentee meeting  
  Skill-up October 18, 2022 (10:00 Universal Time) GitHub tutorial for beginners  
Week 06(start. October 24, 2022) Cohort October 25, 2022 (10:00 Universal Time) Open Science I: Project Development and Introduction to Working Open  
Week 07(start. October 31, 2022) Mentor-Mentee   4th mentor-mentee meeting  
  Q&A November 02, 2022 (17:00 Universal Time) Q&A call  
Week 08(start. November 07, 2022) Cohort November 09, 2022 (17:00 Universal Time) Community design for inclusivity  
Week 09(start. November 14, 2022) Mentor-Mentee   5th mentor-mentee meeting  
  Skill-up November 15, 2022 (10:00 Universal Time) Open Leadership: Academia, industry and beyond!  
Week 10(start. November 21, 2022) Cohort November 22, 2022 (10:00 Universal Time) Open Science II: Knowledge Dissemination  
Week 11(start. November 28, 2022) Mentor-Mentee   6th mentor-mentee meeting  
  Q&A November 30, 2022 (17:00 Universal Time) Q&A call  
  Skill-up November 30, 2022 (17:00 Universal Time) Open-source software  
Week 12(start. December 05, 2022) Cohort December 07, 2022 (17:00 Universal Time) Diversity and Inclusion & Ally skills  
Week 13(start. December 12, 2022) Mentor-Mentee   7th mentor-mentee meeting  
  Skill-up December 13, 2022 (10:00 Universal Time) Self-care & Social call  
Week 14(start. December 19, 2022) Cohort December 20, 2022 (10:00 Universal Time) Open Science III: Next steps - applying FAIR research principles  
Week 15(start. January 09, 2023) Mentor-Mentee   8th mentor-mentee meeting  
  Skill-up January 10, 2023 (09:00 Universal Time) Final presentation rehearsal - Group 1  
  Skill-up January 11, 2023 (14:00 Universal Time) Final presentation rehearsal - Group 2  
  Skill-up January 12, 2023 (17:00 Universal Time) Final presentation rehearsal - Group 3  
Week 16(start. January 16, 2023) Cohort January 17, 2023 (09:00 Universal Time) Final presentations & Graduation! - Group 1  
  Cohort January 18, 2023 (14:00 Universal Time) Final presentations & Graduation! - Group 2  
  Cohort January 19, 2023 (17:00 Universal Time) Final presentations & Graduation! - Group 3  

Week 00 Week starting on **

Mentor call: Mentor Skill Workshop by 360 Training - Group 1

Date: September 16, 2022, at 09:00 Universal Time

Duration: 180 min

Week 01 Week starting on September 19, 2022

Mentor-Mentee call: 1st mentor-mentee meeting

Date: During the week starting on September 19, 2022 (to define with mentors)

Duration: 30 min

Learning objectives

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

In this call, participants will:

  • Meet each other
  • Discuss their personal motivation, expectations, workin practices and project goals

Mentor call: Mentor onboarding group 2

Date: September 21, 2022, at 11:00 Universal Time

Duration: 60 min

Learning objectives

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

In this call, participants 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 26, 2022

Mentor call: Mentor Skill Workshop by 360 Training - Group 1

Date: During the week starting on September 26, 2022 (to define with mentors)

Duration: 180 min

Mentor call: Mentor Skill Workshop by 360 Training - Group 2

Date: September 27, 2022, at 13:30 Universal Time

Duration: 180 min

Cohort call: Welcome to Open Life Science!

Date: September 27, 2022, at 10:00 Universal Time

Duration: 90 min

Learning objectives

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

In this call, participants 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

Before the call

  • Add your vision statement to your GitHub issue

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

Mentor call: Mentor Skill Workshop by 360 Training - Group 3

Date: September 29, 2022, at 17:00 Universal Time

Duration: 180 min

Week 03 Week starting on October 03, 2022

Mentor-Mentee call: 2nd mentor-mentee meeting

Date: During the week starting on October 03, 2022 (to define with mentors)

Duration: 30 min

Cohort call: Welcome to Open Life Science!

Date: October 05, 2022, at 17:00 Universal Time

Duration: 90 min

Learning objectives

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

In this call, participants 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

Before the call

  • Add your vision statement to your GitHub issue

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

Week 04 Week starting on October 10, 2022

Cohort call: Tooling and roadmapping for Open projects

Date: October 12, 2022, at 17:00 Universal Time

Duration: 90 min

Learning objectives

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

  • README
  • LICENSE
  • CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
  • CONTRIBUTING.md

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

In this call

In this call, participants 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 or Hemingway 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 :)

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 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

Week 05 Week starting on October 17, 2022

Mentor-Mentee call: 3rd mentor-mentee meeting

Date: During the week starting on October 17, 2022 (to define with mentors)

Duration: 30 min

Skill-up call: GitHub tutorial for beginners

Date: October 18, 2022, at 10:00 Universal Time

Duration: 90 min

Learning objectives

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

In this call, participants will:

  • 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

Before the call

  • 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

Week 06 Week starting on October 24, 2022

Cohort call: Open Science I: Project Development and Introduction to Working Open

Date: October 25, 2022, at 10:00 Universal Time

Duration: 90 min

Learning objectives

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

In this call, participants will:

  • Hear about Iterative Project management
  • Get familiar with Open Software, Open Hardware, Research Data Management

Before the call

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

After the call

Week 07 Week starting on October 31, 2022

Mentor-Mentee call: 4th mentor-mentee meeting

Date: During the week starting on October 31, 2022 (to define with mentors)

Duration: 30 min

Q&A call: Q&A call

Date: November 02, 2022, at 17:00 Universal Time

Duration: 30 min

Week 08 Week starting on November 07, 2022

Cohort call: Community design for inclusivity

Date: November 09, 2022, at 17:00 Universal Time

Duration: 90 min

Learning objectives

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

In this call, participants will:

  • Learn how to develop Open collaboration by design
  • Hear Mountain of engagement and community interactions
  • Learn about Personas and pathways and welcoming new contributors

After the call

  • Personas & pathways assignment

  • Think through community interactions

  • Complete the midterm survey

Week 09 Week starting on November 14, 2022

Mentor-Mentee call: 5th mentor-mentee meeting

Date: During the week starting on November 14, 2022 (to define with mentors)

Duration: 30 min

Skill-up call: Open Leadership: Academia, industry and beyond!

Date: November 15, 2022, at 10:00 Universal Time

Duration: 90 min

Learning objectives

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

In this call, participants will:

  • 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

Before the call

  • 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?

Week 10 Week starting on November 21, 2022

Cohort call: Open Science II: Knowledge Dissemination

Date: November 22, 2022, at 10:00 Universal Time

Duration: 90 min

Learning objectives

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

In this call, participants will:

  • 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

Before the call

  • 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

Week 11 Week starting on November 28, 2022

Mentor-Mentee call: 6th mentor-mentee meeting

Date: During the week starting on November 28, 2022 (to define with mentors)

Duration: 30 min

Q&A call: Q&A call

Date: November 30, 2022, at 17:00 Universal Time

Duration: 30 min

Skill-up call: Open-source software

Date: November 30, 2022, at 17:00 Universal Time

Duration: 90 min

Week 12 Week starting on December 05, 2022

Cohort call: Diversity and Inclusion & Ally skills

Date: December 07, 2022, at 17:00 Universal Time

Duration: 90 min

Before the call

  • You can ‘continue as a guest’ by choosing your country
  • Answer these questions when you’ve finished the implicit association test: What does inclusion mean to you? Did your results of the implicit association test surprise you?
  • Think how people step up for you in social scenarios and how you step up for them to support each other:

  • 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?

Week 13 Week starting on December 12, 2022

Mentor-Mentee call: 7th mentor-mentee meeting

Date: During the week starting on December 12, 2022 (to define with mentors)

Duration: 30 min

Skill-up call: Self-care & Social call

Date: December 13, 2022, at 10:00 Universal Time

Duration: 90 min

Learning objectives

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

In this call, participants will:

  • Discuss the importance of taking care of mental health and avoiding burn out for both project leaders and community members

Before the call

  • 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.

Week 14 Week starting on December 19, 2022

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

Date: December 20, 2022, at 10:00 Universal Time

Duration: 90 min

Learning objectives

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

In this call, participants will:

  • Learn how to apply FAIR research principles on data, software, training to make research “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 15 Week starting on January 09, 2023

Mentor-Mentee call: 8th mentor-mentee meeting

Date: During the week starting on January 09, 2023 (to define with mentors)

Duration: 30 min

Skill-up call: Final presentation rehearsal - Group 1

Date: January 10, 2023, at 09:00 Universal Time

Duration: 60 min

Learning objectives

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

In this call, participants will:

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

Before the call

  • 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.

Talks

Resources

Skill-up call: Final presentation rehearsal - Group 2

Date: January 11, 2023, at 14:00 Universal Time

Duration: 60 min

Learning objectives

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

In this call, participants will:

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

Before the call

  • 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.

Talks

Resources

Skill-up call: Final presentation rehearsal - Group 3

Date: January 12, 2023, at 17:00 Universal Time

Duration: 60 min

Learning objectives

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

In this call, participants will:

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

Before the call

  • 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.

Talks

Resources

Week 16 Week starting on January 16, 2023

Cohort call: Final presentations & Graduation! - Group 1

Date: January 17, 2023, at 09:00 Universal Time

Duration: 60 min

Learning objectives

At the end of this call, learners will be able to:

  • Share a 5 mins presentation of their project

  • Celebrate OLS-6 success

In this call

In this call, participants will:

  • Share a 5 mins presentation of their project
  • Celebrate OLS-6 success

Before the call

  • 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.

Talks

Resources

Cohort call: Final presentations & Graduation! - Group 2

Date: January 18, 2023, at 14:00 Universal Time

Duration: 60 min

Learning objectives

At the end of this call, learners will be able to:

  • Share a 5 mins presentation of their project

  • Celebrate OLS-6 success

In this call

In this call, participants will:

  • Share a 5 mins presentation of their project
  • Celebrate OLS-6 success

Before the call

  • 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.

Talks

Resources

Cohort call: Final presentations & Graduation! - Group 3

Date: January 19, 2023, at 17:00 Universal Time

Duration: 60 min

Learning objectives

At the end of this call, learners will be able to:

  • Share a 5 mins presentation of their project

  • Celebrate OLS-6 success

In this call

In this call, participants will:

  • Share a 5 mins presentation of their project
  • Celebrate OLS-6 success

Before the call

  • 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.

Talks

Resources