OSOH - Open Science Office Hours

[koudyk]

Project Lead: Kendra Oudyk @koudyk

Mentor: Andrew Stewart @ajstewartlang

Welcome to OLS-2! This issue will be used to track your project and progress during the program. Please use this checklist over the next few weeks as you start Open Life Science program tada.

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Week 1 (31 August - 4 September 2020): Meet your mentor!

• Create an account on GitHub
• Check if you have access to the HackMD notes set up for your meetings with your mentor
• Prepare to meet your mentor(s) by completing a short homework provided in the HackMD notes
• Complete your own copy of the open leadership self-assessment and share it to 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.

Before Week 2 (7 - 11 September 2020): Cohort Call (Welcome to Open Life Science!)

• Create an issue on the OLS-2 GitHub repository for your OLS work and share the link to your mentor.

• Draft a brief vision statement using your goals

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

• Leave a comment on this issue with your draft vision statement & be ready to share this on the call

• Check the Syllabus for notes and connection info for all the cohort calls.

Before Week 3 (14 - 18 September 2020): Meet your mentor!

• 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

Before Week 4 (21 - 25 September 2020): Cohort Call (Tooling and roadmapping for Open projects)

• Look up two other projects and comment on their issues with feedback on their open canvas.

Week 5 and later

• 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 to 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
• Invite new contributors to into your work!

This issue is here to help you keep track of work as you start Open Life Science program. Please refer to the OLS-2 Syllabus for more detailed weekly notes and assignments past week 4.

[koudyk]

Vision statement - original

We are working with the open-science neuroscience community in Montreal to create Open Science Office Hours (OSOH), where trainees will get regular 1-on-1 help with making their research more open and reproducible.

Our goal is to help research trainees use open-science practices in their research, and in line with this, the organization of OSOH will be open and community driven.

Feedback from Hemingway Editor

[koudyk]

Links

• GitHub repo
• README
• Open canvas
• Roadmap

[EKaroune]

I think you are doing a great job. I found your road map really clear but I could not access your open canvas so you need to change the link for that.

[joyceykao]

@koudyk I love the idea of office hours and 1:1 help. It's like an open science consulting firm. I'd love to see the canvas as well. Have you thought about expanding beyond Montreal? Or even an open science consulting booth at dept retreats, conferences, etc.?

[koudyk]

@EKaroune and @joyceykao, thanks for pointing out the broken link! It looks like it's working now.

EKaroune, great point about expanding beyond Montreal. That's on my mind from the beginning. But I wanted to start with a manageable scope for getting funding and traction. There are at least 4 universities in Montreal with neuroscience grad students, so I feel like focusing on Montreal is still ambitious.

Re the booth at conferences, etc., that's a really interesting idea. My dept. holds a big retreat every year, and that would be a great place to reach new students (esp if we can get swag...). It's definitely something to keep in mind, thanks!!

[koudyk]

Vision statement - updated 2020-09-21

What are we doing? We want to start Open Science Office Hours (OSOH) for neuroscience graduate students in Montreal. In this space, students could get regular 1-on-1 help making their research more open and reproducible. We will hire more-experienced students to host OSOH as paid Teaching Assistants.

Why are we doing this? Many grad students learn open-science skills at short events like summer schools and hackathons. But they may not have continuous in-lab support for integrating what they learn into their everyday research.

How will we do this? In line with our focus on open science, the organization of OSOH will be open and community driven. For specifics, see our Roadmap.

Where will this happen? We will begin focusing on neuroscience graduate students in Montreal, Canada. OSOH will be online during the COVID-19 pandemic.

When will this happen? We will begin OSOH in the summer of 2021, after Montreal's BrainHack School.

Feedback from Hemingway Editor

[koudyk]

Hey anyone stopping by here 👋

• Do you think my new Vision Statement is too long?
• Does it feel weird that I started each paragraph with a question?

Cheers, K

[samuelorion]

Hey Kendra,

• Do you think my new Vision Statement is too long?

Not at all. Contains all the relevant info to understand what you are trying to create.

• Does it feel weird that I started each paragraph with a question?

No, it works. My personal preference is to have them as statements rather than questions... but I think it works well as is.

In our last mentor meeting we discussed the fact that we #14 are only on the other side of the mountain, here in Montreal.

Obviously there is substantial overlap, as well as a clear distinction, between what we would like to achieve during OLS-2, and into the future.

Perhaps, we could talk after the cohort call on Thursday.

Also, I have spoken to @joyceykao #8, who's project also has some overlap with ours... Given that we will need some similar content (especially in french), we could see how we can co-develop some of this stuff ...

[koudyk]

Hey Sam,

Thanks for the feedback :) I was also meaning to reach out to talk to you about how our projects might overlap! It would be great to talk to @joyceykao as well.

Re when to meet, I actually have another meeting right after the cohort call on Thursday. Would Friday before 10:30 or after 1 pm work?

[samuelorion]

Great! Frida, 1PM (EDT). Here’s the link: https://meet.google.com/zxn-moxb-izc <https://meet.google.com/zxn-moxb-izc>

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[koudyk]

Vision Statement - updated 2020-09-24

What are we doing? Open Science Office Hours (OSOH) is an online space where students can get regular help making their research more open. Many grad students learn open-science skills at short events like summer schools and hackathons. But they may not have continuous in-lab support for using what they learn in their everyday research. We hope to support such students and integrate them into the open-science community so they feel empowered to do open science.

For who? In our first year, we're holding OSOH for neuroscience graduate students in Montreal, Canada. We may expand beyond this field and location in the future.

With who? In line with our focus on open science, the organization of OSOH will be open and community driven. We will hire more-experienced students to host OSOH as paid Teaching Assistants. We warmly welcome contributors! See our Contributor Guide and Code of Conduct if you're interested.

We will begin OSOH in the summer of 2021, after Montreal's BrainHack School.

[evaherbst]

Hi @koudyk ! I really like your idea and the vision statement is very clear. I think starting out the points as questions is really useful!
I tried to look at your Open Canvas but it looks like it links to a different project; could you double check this?

[koudyk]

Thanks!! I fixed the link

[KateSimpson]

Hi @koudyk

• Do you think my new Vision Statement is too long?
  I like it! It is clear and easy to read.

• Does it feel weird that I started each paragraph with a question?
  No, I think this helps to guide the reader.

Really nice project! I like that you have a clear plan of engaging neuroscience grad students and hope to expand to wider disciplines later.

[malvikasharan]

@all-contributors please add @koudyk for idea and content.

[allcontributors]

@malvikasharan

I've put up a pull request to add @koudyk! 🎉

[hzahroh]

Hi @koudyk

• Do you think my new Vision Statement is too long?
  Not at all, I think it's clearly states your purposes. I like your vision statement and canvas. Can't wait to see how it goes.

• Does it feel weird that I started each paragraph with a question?
  It works fine for me