From 0d798e98c9867aba716ca819f6eedb5af15a2c88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jonah Duckles Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2024 15:57:29 +1300 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Cycle 4 Funding: Community Engagement Follow-on work by OrgMycology We've attached a proposal to create a follow-on for the work we've been doing with Astropy. We see some key areas we think we could be helpful going forward, and welcome conversation over the coming weeks to co-create some intitiatives under this outline proposal. We'd very much like to hear from the CoCo about priorities they might have from our community survey that they think we could potentially contribute to. --- finance/proposal-calls/cycle4/orgmycology.md | 122 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 122 insertions(+) create mode 100644 finance/proposal-calls/cycle4/orgmycology.md diff --git a/finance/proposal-calls/cycle4/orgmycology.md b/finance/proposal-calls/cycle4/orgmycology.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..3defae46 --- /dev/null +++ b/finance/proposal-calls/cycle4/orgmycology.md @@ -0,0 +1,122 @@ +[](https://orgmycology.com) + +A proposal to the [Astropy Cycle 4 Funding call](https://github.com/astropy/astropy-project/blob/main/finance/proposal-calls/cycle4/cycle4.md) + +### Community Engagement and Support from Organizational Mycology + +### Project Team + +- @jduckles - Jonah Duckles - OrgMycology +- @bduckles - Beth Duckles - OrgMycology +- @dsholler - Dan Sholler - OrgMycology + +Working closely with + +@BerylKanali - Beryl Kanali - Astropy + +### Background on Past work + +Organizational Mycology worked closely with the leadership and newly hired community manager at Astropy in late 2023 to: +- Coach / support the community manager +- [Develop engagement tracking infrastructure](https://github.com/astropy/community_management) +- [Survey the community about how they use / engage with Astropy](https://astropy-report.orgmycology.com/) +- Conducted qualitative research around DEI and Code of Conduct in the Astropy community. + +**Potential Structures:** We are open to merging this proposal with the community leader's proposal for continued funding, and/or keep this proposal independent. Whatever is easiest logistically, and operationally for the organization is fine for our team. It is our understanding that our last contract was handled under a merged funding request, and we're happy to use that structure again if it simplifies things internal to Astropy. + +Organizational Mycology is a consulting organization that works with many open science and open source software communities. Our team members have been in leadership roles within these communities and have helped other organizations build community management, engagement, and governance capacity. We do so with a combination of social science-based introspection and data collection, leadership coaching, and development of sustainable participatory community strategies (i.e., ways for organizations to continue building and evaluating their communities long after we fulfill a contract). These activities are beneficial both for project leaders at a strategic level (e.g., in developing new processes and making administrative decisions) and for community managers at a practical level (e.g., in collecting feedback from the community and fostering healthy community dynamics). + +### Project / Work + +*Building on our six-months of successful collaboration with the AstroPy team managing the community hire, we’ve developed a follow-on proposal* + +- **Continued Community Manager Support and Coaching** - The OrgMycology team members are available to the community lead on topics including systems automation, community wrangling, qualitative survey techniques and methods and other topics as they arise. +- **Qualitative Inquiry Coaching** – Supporting Beryl Kanali to continue to grow her skills in interviewing, data gathering and report-out as she has conversations with community members. +- **Skills Map Development** – Addressing [our recommendation to better communicate user-contributotr pipelines](https://astropy-report.orgmycology.com/sections/consultant_recommendations#develop-and-visualize-user-to-contributor-pipelines). We propose to develop skills maps which can help to map roles of Astropy community members and the ways in which educational material and community progressions take place. We propose to develop two skills maps, one for Astropy Developers (focusing on on-ramps for new developers) and one for Astropy Users (starting with Astropy Learn lessons). These will be developed with community involvement and feedback and shared openly as a resource of the community to own and update as needed. [Examples of skills maps](https://orgmycology.com/skills-maps) +- **Technical skills support** – Helping and supporting Community Lead as she develops more automations and tools that help her do the work of community manager for the Astropy Community. Project priorities will be set with Community Lead and monthly progress reports will be shared back with the CoCo and community. +- **1-2 - Special projects prioritized by CoCo** + - Contribution workshops - desing, support and test-out short workshops for PRs, contributing to documentation, learning about automated testing suites etc. + - How does Astropy want to work to intentionally welcome more newcomers? + - Website strategic facilitations - Drawing from community members vision of a more effective website to be used for a website revamp. + +Across our three person team, we have the domain-specific (open science and OSS) experience and coaching skills to leave the organization in a strong position to get the most out of the community manager role, both in its current ½ time and future full-time capacity. We have extensive experience running interactive online workshops, designing surveys and interview schedules, constructing automations, and building active, participatory communities. We also understand and appreciate that community managers often become overwhelmed by the complex demands of their roles; all of our services are designed to alleviate this pressure by making it easier to gather and act upon feedback from the project community. +How does this benefit Astropy packages / users / community / ...? Short summary. + + +Details here as needed for Astropy community members to understand what is planned. + +### Approximate Budget +Currency: US $ + +| Item | Cost | +|------------------------------------|----------------------| +| Community Manager Support | $6,000 | +| Qualitative Inquiry Coaching | $3,000 | +| Skills Map Development | $12,000 | +| Technical Skills Support | $3,000 | +| 1-2 CoCo prioritized projects | $6,000-12,000 ($6,000 each) | +| **Total** | **$30,000 - $36,000**| + + +### Period of Performance + +6 Months starting April-September 2024 (could be readily extended if the community sees needs for this support longer-term) + + + +# OrgMycology Terms + + +## Terms + +A deposit of 30% of the fee is required to secure the dates and services. This is payable within 7 days of invoice. The balance will be invoiced at the agreed to monthly schedule of work. + +Cancellation Policy – 50% of our fees may be incurred for cancellation 10 to 5 working days from the date of a significant portion of work (e.g. facilitated workshop, extended meeting or design session). + +100% of our fees may be incurred for cancellation within 5 working days from the date of a significant piece of work. + +Any non-refundable expenses such as travel and accommodation that have already been booked will be charged in full. + +Travel (if applicable): Passed on at cost. We are also happy for your team to book any travel or accommodation directly. Efforts will be made to share travel expenses with other clients, and to use Zoom/Teams where appropriate. + +## Risks + +One of the most difficult activities in qualitative research is participant recruitment. We will require help from the leadership of AstroPy to frame invitations for participation in surveys and interviews and identify the best platform for sending them (e.g., email, Slack, forums). + +Much of the proposed work requires AstroPy representatives to make time available to the consultants. For the effort to be successful, we’ll need all participating parties to prioritize the outlined efforts during the 6-month activity window. We have a track record of working well with the Astropy team, but this doesn't mean unforseeable challenges can't arise in the future. The Org Mycology team will work to communicate and share any challenges with the Astropy CoCo and Finance Committee that might arise. + + +## Payment + +This contract will run through Whale Bytes Ltd, a NZ Company (8241165) trading as Organizational Mycology NZ. + +Pay by wire or ACH to: +Account holder: WHALE BYTES LIMITED +ACH and Wire routing number: 0840095191 +Account number: 9600004770793612 +Account type: Checking +Bank Address + 30 W. 26th Street, Sixth Floor + New York NY 10010 + United States + + +Agreed to By + + +Start date: April___ , 2024 + + + +Jonah M Duckles Date + + + + +AstroPy Representative Date + + +![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/orgmycology/logo/main/short_logo.svg) + + + From 8fcefd030b7cea93d72a3497abcbf9dc2b680405 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jonah Duckles Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 13:55:33 +1200 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Updates based on comments --- finance/proposal-calls/cycle4/orgmycology.md | 13 ++++++++----- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/finance/proposal-calls/cycle4/orgmycology.md b/finance/proposal-calls/cycle4/orgmycology.md index 3defae46..b05ee904 100644 --- a/finance/proposal-calls/cycle4/orgmycology.md +++ b/finance/proposal-calls/cycle4/orgmycology.md @@ -43,7 +43,13 @@ Across our three person team, we have the domain-specific (open science and OSS) How does this benefit Astropy packages / users / community / ...? Short summary. -Details here as needed for Astropy community members to understand what is planned. +### Details here as needed for Astropy community members to understand what is planned: + +Back in 2023, we had originally proposed that we act as a community manager for a period of time in order to build a foundation for the work of an eventual full-time community manager. This was backed-off of as a suitable candidate was found (and our budget reduced), so we've defaulted to a supporting role in the past year. During that work we created and reported on the [community survey](https://astropy-report.orgmycology.com/), worked to develop tooling for the community manager to [observe and track systems](https://github.com/astropy/community_management/tree/main/scripts), coached the community manager weekly, and conducted a DEI Survey (report forthcoming). We're back to support and continue to keep a focus on community engagement and development activities that can enhance the Astropy community. + +In this proposal, roughly half of this proposal (community manager support, qualitative inquiry coaching, and technical skills support) is continued support for the community manager, and the other half is 2-3 projects that our team will lead, seeking to use to build capability and capacity across Astropy. One of those projects, skills mapping, clearly helps define what community development in both developer and user spaces would look like. + +The other two optional areas, we'd like to co-create a few activities that are priority areas for the community based on the insights from our survey last year. There is a clear need for Astropy to do more than it is presently doing in areas of concern raised by the community. We're keen to co-create next-steps and tangible actions here. We've observed that this community work is very low on the priority list, and there is a strategic risk for Astropy in continuing to leave it there. With our modest budget, we hope to keep nudging along a few key important areas, and we're keen to co-create what feel most-important to you all at this present moment. ### Approximate Budget Currency: US $ @@ -60,9 +66,7 @@ Currency: US $ ### Period of Performance -6 Months starting April-September 2024 (could be readily extended if the community sees needs for this support longer-term) - - +6 Months starting May-October 2024 (could be readily extended if the community sees needs for this support longer-term) # OrgMycology Terms @@ -77,7 +81,6 @@ Cancellation Policy – 50% of our fees may be incurred for cancellation 10 to 5 Any non-refundable expenses such as travel and accommodation that have already been booked will be charged in full. -Travel (if applicable): Passed on at cost. We are also happy for your team to book any travel or accommodation directly. Efforts will be made to share travel expenses with other clients, and to use Zoom/Teams where appropriate. ## Risks