OSUM | Open Science UMontreal

[samuelorion]

Project Lead: @samuelorion

Mentor: @unode

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 🎉.

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

• Create an account on GitHub/OSUM
• 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.

[samuelorion]

Our readme can be found here

Vision

Within our Canadian and Quebec scientific community we notice several of the common themes that bring scientists to open science. And, despite several governmental and institutional ‘open science roadmaps’ here in Canada and Quebec, there is no clear pathway to understand why, nor how to do, ‘open science’. This especially true at the level of the individual, whether beginner researcher, established PI, or administrator.

There is a broad spectrum of what is, and how to do, open science (which, quite frankly, can be overwhelming for anyone in the academic community). Additionally, the absence of clear guidelines, tools, and workshops is evident among the french-speaking research communities. Indeed, there is very little french-speaking open science awareness.

This project will therefore address two main actual constraints to researchers and students adopting 'science in the open'.

First, create an accessible and structured web platform providing guidance with open science content and concrete resources for the scientific community.

Secondly, achieving this by building an inclusive and global community by lowering the existing barrier of accessibility by making open and reproducible-related knowledge accessible in other languages than English. As this project will begin from within the scientific community of the University of Montreal, our initial efforts will be put focused on creating french content.

[samuelorion]

Thank you to the OLS team, the tools suggested are already going to be useful for cleaning up my verbosity.

Our readme can be found here

Vision

Within our Canadian and Quebec scientific community we notice several of the common themes that bring scientists to open science. And, despite several governmental and institutional ‘open science roadmaps’ here in Canada and ...

[Tai-Rocha]

Perhaps the project of Joyce Kao @joyceykao about "Open Innovation in Life Sciences" has some ideas for your project and vice versa . I discovery OLS program in a search for good guides, platafform, or something like that compiles the practices to build a open research/science. Your iniciative it is really Nice!!!

[sonibk]

The thought of making knowledge accessible in other languages apart from English is great.

[joyceykao]

@samuelorion I think we both have the same goals in our projects, but different communities and different approaches. We are very event-centered approach. Maybe we should set up a meeting and chat about our projects? Switzerland is very multi-lingual with French being the second-most spoken language right after German.

[samuelorion]

Great idea. That would be great. How do you guys approach language in a multi-lingual country?

@joyceykao, how about during / after the cohort call?!

[joyceykao]

@samuelorion Message me on Slack and we can set up a time to chat!

[anproulx]

Here is the link to our Open Canvas

[sonibk]

The insights are really good especially on the translation bit.

[samuelorion]

Here is the link to our Open Canvas

And a .md text version – open to suggestions!

[malvikasharan]

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

[allcontributors]

@malvikasharan

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

[malvikasharan]

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

[allcontributors]

@malvikasharan

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

[malvikasharan]

@samuelorion can you please update the issue with all the project leads' names for this project?