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 00
Week starting on February 21, 2022
Mentor call: Mentor onboarding group 1
Date: February 21, 2022, at 18:00 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 Skill Workshop by 360 Training - Group 1
Date: February 22, 2022, at 10:00 Universal Time
Duration: 180 min
Week 01
Week starting on February 28, 2022
Mentor-Mentee call: 1st mentor-mentee meeting
Date: During the week starting on February 28, 2022 (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 2
Date: March 02, 2022, 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.
Mentor call: Mentor onboarding group 1
Date: During the week starting on February 28, 2022 (to define with mentors)
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 Skill Workshop by 360 Training - Group 2
Date: March 02, 2022, at 14:00 Universal Time
Duration: 180 min
Mentor call: Mentor Skill Workshop by 360 Training - Group 3
Date: March 03, 2022, at 18:00 Universal Time
Duration: 180 min
Week 02
Week starting on March 07, 2022
Cohort call: Welcome to Open Life Science!
Date: March 07, 2022, at 18:00 Universal Time
Duration: 90 min
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
-
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 03
Week starting on March 14, 2022
Mentor-Mentee call: 2nd mentor-mentee meeting
Date: During the week starting on March 14, 2022 (to define with mentors)
Duration: 30 min
Cohort call: Welcome to Open Life Science!
Date: March 16, 2022, at 11:00 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 March 21, 2022
Cohort call: Tooling and roadmapping for Open projects
Date: March 23, 2022, at 11:00 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
-
Project Structure
-
README
-
Open Licensing
-
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 March 28, 2022
Mentor-Mentee call: 3rd mentor-mentee meeting
Date: During the week starting on March 28, 2022 (to define with mentors)
Duration: 30 min
Skill-up call: GitHub tutorial for beginners
Date: March 28, 2022, at 18:00 Universal Time
Duration: 90 min
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 April 04, 2022
Cohort call: Open Science I: Project Development and Introduction to Working Open
Date: April 04, 2022, at 18:00 Universal Time
Duration: 90 min
In this call
In this call, participants will:
- Hear about Iterative Project management
- Get familiar with Open Software, Open Hardware, Research Data Management
Talks
-
Using project management skills during development stage
-
Open Data
-
Open Source Software in Research
-
Agile & Iterative Project Management Methods
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 April 11, 2022
Mentor-Mentee call: 4th mentor-mentee meeting
Date: During the week starting on April 11, 2022 (to define with mentors)
Duration: 30 min
Q&A call: Q&A call
Date: April 13, 2022, at 11:00 Universal Time
Duration: 30 min
Week 08
Week starting on April 18, 2022
Cohort call: Community design for inclusivity
Date: April 20, 2022, at 11:00 Universal Time
Duration: 90 min
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
-
Mountain of Engagement
-
Designing & empowering for inclusivity: Personas & Pathways
-
Welcoming New Contributors on Your Project
Resources:
After the call
- Personas & pathways assignment
- Think through community interactions
- Complete the midterm survey
Week 09
Week starting on April 25, 2022
Mentor-Mentee call: 5th mentor-mentee meeting
Date: During the week starting on April 25, 2022 (to define with mentors)
Duration: 30 min
Skill-up call: Open Leadership: Academia, industry and beyond!
Date: April 25, 2022, at 18:00 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 May 02, 2022
Cohort call: Open Science II: Knowledge Dissemination
Date: May 02, 2022, at 18:00 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
-
Preprints
-
Open training in low and middle income settings
-
Open access, Preprints
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 May 09, 2022
Mentor-Mentee call: 6th mentor-mentee meeting
Date: During the week starting on May 09, 2022 (to define with mentors)
Duration: 30 min
Q&A call: Q&A call
Date: May 11, 2022, at 11:00 Universal Time
Duration: 30 min
Week 12
Week starting on May 16, 2022
Cohort call: Diversity and Inclusion & Ally skills
Date: May 18, 2022, at 11:00 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 May 23, 2022
Mentor-Mentee call: 7th mentor-mentee meeting
Date: During the week starting on May 23, 2022 (to define with mentors)
Duration: 30 min
Skill-up call: Self-care & Social call
Date: May 23, 2022, at 18:00 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 May 30, 2022
Cohort call: Open Science III: Next steps in open
Date: May 30, 2022, at 18:00 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
-
Public engagement: Open Infrastructure, Citizen Science, Science Communication
-
Steps towards FAIRer and more citable software
Resources:
After the call
- Think about and plan to apply FAIR principles to your project in your own time
Week 15
Week starting on June 06, 2022
Mentor-Mentee call: 8th mentor-mentee meeting
Date: During the week starting on June 06, 2022 (to define with mentors)
Duration: 30 min
Skill-up call: Final presentation rehearsal - Group 1
Date: June 07, 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: June 08, 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: June 09, 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 June 13, 2022
Cohort call: Final presentations & Graduation! - Group 1
Date: June 14, 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: June 15, 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: June 16, 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.
Cohort call: Final presentations & Graduation! - Group 4
Date: July 18, 2022, at 10:00 Universal Time
Duration: 60 min
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 5
Date: July 20, 2022, at 18:00 Universal Time
Duration: 60 min
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.