How to

Run an Open Source Science Project

Billy Meinke (University of Hawaii) + Rob Davey (The Genome Analysis Centre)
Mozilla Festival 2015
@mozillascience  |  #mozopenres

Closed (?) science


(What are the keywords that emerge when we think about closed science?)

Open (!) science


(What are the keywords that surface when we think about open science projects?)

Aims and goals


(What can we achieve through doing a science project openly?)

How to get there


(What tools, methods, & resources that allow us to reach those goals?)

Technical tools


(For sharing content, code, and data)

Fostering a community


(How do you find and keep collaborators?)

Social techniques


(Hackathons, workshops, things you've been to or organized)

Documentation


(Often the first things people will interact with)

Recognition


(Leadership, giving credit, supporting the community) 

Not a 'set it and forget it' thing


(drop in care packages regularly!)

What next?


(Words of wisdom, questions, thoughts?)

Icon attributions

(all icons CC BY or Public Domain on the Noun Project)

winner by Isabel Martínez Isabel
prison by Luis Prado
exit by Arthur Shlain
fist bump by Kyle Tezak
parachute by Sofía Moya
pocket tool by Cezary Lopacinski,
thumbs up by Gregor Črešnar
document by Samuel Q. Green
collaboration by Krisada
fortune cookie by Bruno Castro

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Mozilla Science Open Research Accelerator Workshop

By Billy Meinke

Mozilla Science Open Research Accelerator Workshop

For the "How to Run an Open Source Science Project" session at Mozilla Festival 2015, by Billy Meinke and Rob Davey.

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