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 expert from the field to give talks
- Mentees can participate to skill-up, Q&A or coworking session in the weeks without cohort calls
- Mentors take part to mentoring workshop and calls
Organizers will inform participants of the week schedule by email.
Week 01
Week starting on September 13, 2021
Mentor-Mentee call: 1st mentor-mentee meeting
Date: During the week starting on September 13, 2021 (to define with mentors)
Duration: 30 min
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 1
Date: September 16, 2021, at 16:00 Universal Time
Duration: 60 min
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.
Mentor call: Mentor onboarding group 2
Date: September 17, 2021, at 10:00 Universal Time
Duration: 60 min
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 20, 2021
Cohort call: Welcome to Open Life Science!
Date: September 22, 2021, at 13:30 Universal Time
Duration: 90 min
Hosts: Yo Yehudi, Emmy Tsang, Bérénice Batut
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
Talks
-
Welcome to OLS!
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Introducing Open Canvas
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Introducing Road Mapping
Resources:
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 1
Date: September 22, 2021, at 18:00 Universal Time
Duration: 180 min
Mentor call: Mentor Skill Workshop by 360 Training - Group 2
Date: September 23, 2021, at 10:00 Universal Time
Duration: 180 min
Week 03
Week starting on September 27, 2021
Mentor-Mentee call: 2nd mentor-mentee meeting
Date: During the week starting on September 27, 2021 (to define with mentors)
Duration: 30 min
Cohort call: Welcome to Open Life Science!
Date: September 29, 2021, at 18:00 Universal Time
Duration: 90 min
Hosts: Yo Yehudi, Emmy Tsang, Malvika Sharan
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
Talks
-
Welcome to OLS!
-
Introducing Open Canvas
-
Introducing Road Mapping
Resources:
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 04, 2021
Cohort call: Tooling and roadmapping for Open projects
Date: October 06, 2021, at 18:00 Universal Time
Duration: 90 min
Hosts: Yo Yehudi, Emmy Tsang, Emma Karoune
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.
Talks
-
Open Licensing
-
README
-
Contributing Guidelines and Code of Conduct
Resources:
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.mdfile, 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 11, 2021
Mentor-Mentee call: 3rd mentor-mentee meeting
Date: During the week starting on October 11, 2021 (to define with mentors)
Duration: 30 min
Skill-up call: GitHub tutorial for beginners
Date: October 13, 2021, at 13:30 Universal Time
Duration: 90 min
Hosts: Yo Yehudi, Malvika Sharan
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 18, 2021
Cohort call: Open Science I: Project Development and Introduction to Working Open
Date: October 20, 2021, at 13:30 Universal Time
Duration: 90 min
Hosts: Yo Yehudi, Malvika Sharan, Emmy Tsang, Michael Landi
In this call
In this call, participants will:
- Hear about Iterative Project management
- Get familiar with Open Software, Open Hardware, Research Data Management
Talks
-
Agile & Iterative Project Management Methods
-
Open Source in Research
-
Research data management
Resources:
Before the call
- Look up two other projects and comment on their issues with feedback on their README
After the call
- 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 communit
Week 07
Week starting on October 25, 2021
Mentor-Mentee call: 4th mentor-mentee meeting
Date: During the week starting on October 25, 2021 (to define with mentors)
Duration: 30 min
Q&A call: Q&A call
Date: October 27, 2021, at 18:00 Universal Time
Duration: 30 min
Week 08
Week starting on November 01, 2021
Cohort call: Community design for inclusivity
Date: November 03, 2021, at 18:00 Universal Time
Duration: 90 min
Hosts: Danny Garside, Yo Yehudi, Emmy Tsang
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
Talks
-
Using Personas and Pathways to Build Community
-
Mountain of Engagement
-
Welcoming new contributors + Thinking about community interactions
Resources:
After the call
- Personas & pathways assignment
- Think through community interactions
- Complete the midterm survey
Week 09
Week starting on November 08, 2021
Mentor-Mentee call: 5th mentor-mentee meeting
Date: During the week starting on November 08, 2021 (to define with mentors)
Duration: 30 min
Skill-up call: Open Leadership: Academia, industry and beyond!
Date: November 10, 2021, at 13:30 Universal Time
Duration: 90 min
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 15, 2021
Cohort call: Open Science II: Knowledge Dissemination
Date: November 17, 2021, at 13:30 Universal Time
Duration: 90 min
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
Talks
-
Getting started with preprints
-
Publishing & Citing Open Research Code
-
Usable, comprehensive, accessible, FAIR and empowering training - The case of the Galaxy Training Network
Resources:
Before the call
- 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
- 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 22, 2021
Mentor-Mentee call: 6th mentor-mentee meeting
Date: During the week starting on November 22, 2021 (to define with mentors)
Duration: 30 min
Q&A call: Q&A call
Date: November 24, 2021, at 18:00 Universal Time
Duration: 30 min
Week 12
Week starting on November 29, 2021
Cohort call: Diversity and Inclusion & Ally skills
Date: December 01, 2021, at 18:00 Universal Time
Duration: 90 min
Talks
-
Inclusion is not an afterthought or (Unconscious bias: Does it really matter?)
-
Ally skills - Optional
Resources:
Before the call
- Go to https://implicit.harvard.edu complete the ‘Gender - Career’ or ‘Gender - Science’ quiz (10 minutes)
- 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 06, 2021
Mentor-Mentee call: 7th mentor-mentee meeting
Date: During the week starting on December 06, 2021 (to define with mentors)
Duration: 30 min
Skill-up call: Self-care & Social call
Date: December 08, 2021, at 13:30 Universal Time
Duration: 90 min
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 13, 2021
Cohort call: Open Science III: Next steps - applying FAIR research principles
Date: December 15, 2021, at 12:30 Universal Time
Duration: 90 min
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.”
Talks
Resources:
- Notes
-
Recording available on the OLS YouTube channel after the call
- FAIR software
After the call
- Think about and plan to apply FAIR principles to your project in your own time
Cohort call: Open Science III: Next steps in open
Date: December 15, 2021, at 13:30 Universal Time
Duration: 90 min
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.”
Talks
-
The future of Open Science? DMPs and FAIR data
-
Open / citizen sience, the only way to
-
Software citation with the Citation File Format
Resources:
After the call
- Think about and plan to apply FAIR principles to your project in your own time
Week 15
Week starting on January 10, 2022
Mentor-Mentee call: 8th mentor-mentee meeting
Date: During the week starting on January 10, 2022 (to define with mentors)
Duration: 30 min
Skill-up call: Final presentation rehearsal - Group 1
Date: January 11, 2022, at 10:00 Universal Time
Duration: 60 min
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.
Skill-up call: Final presentation rehearsal - Group 2
Date: January 12, 2022, at 15:00 Universal Time
Duration: 60 min
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.
Skill-up call: Final presentation rehearsal - Group 3
Date: January 13, 2022, at 18:00 Universal Time
Duration: 60 min
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.
Week 16
Week starting on January 17, 2022
Cohort call: Final presentations & Graduation! - Group 1
Date: January 18, 2022, at 10:00 Universal Time
Duration: 60 min
In this call
In this call, participants will:
- Share a 5 mins presentation of their project
- Celebrate OLS-4 success
Talks
Resources:
- Notes
- Recording available on the OLS YouTube channel after the call
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.
Cohort call: Final presentations & Graduation! - Group 2
Date: January 19, 2022, at 15:00 Universal Time
Duration: 60 min
In this call
In this call, participants will:
- Share a 5 mins presentation of their project
- Celebrate OLS-4 success
Talks
Resources:
- Notes
- Recording available on the OLS YouTube channel after the call
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.
Cohort call: Final presentations & Graduation! - Group 3
Date: January 20, 2022, at 18:00 Universal Time
Duration: 60 min
In this call
In this call, participants will:
- Share a 5 mins presentation of their project
- Celebrate OLS-4 success
Talks
Resources:
- Notes
- Recording available on the OLS YouTube channel after the call
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.