Grassroots: Nurturing the EMBL Bio-IT Community

[Lisanna]

Project Lead:

• Lisanna Paladin @Lisanna

Mentor:

• Dave Clements @tnabtaf
• Emmy Tsang @emmyft

Welcome to OLS-4! 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 (week starting 13 September 2021): Meet your mentor!

• Meet mentor for 30 minutes
• Create an account on GitHub
• 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 your shared 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 (week starting 20 September 2021): Cohort Call (Welcome to Open Life Science!)

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube

• Create an issue on the OLS-4 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 (week starting 27 September 2021): Meet your mentor!

• Meet 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: Cohort Call (Tooling and roadmapping for Open projects)

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube
• Look up two other projects and comment on their issues with feedback on their open canvas.

Week 5 and later

• Meet mentor
• 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!

Week 6

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube

Week 7

• Meet mentor

Week 8

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube

Week 9

• Meet mentor

Week 10

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube

Week 11

• Meet mentor

Week 12

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube

Week 13

• Meet mentor

Week 14

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube

Week 15

• Meet mentor

[Lisanna]

Meeting agenda

Preparation, week 1 & 2:

• Self-assessment notes
• Vision statement notes

Vision statement

I’m working with

• the EMBL staff,
• especially the research staff that uses or develops computational biology tools,
• in particular the active members of Bio-IT community

to improve the Bio-IT Grassroots project, supporting consultation across EMBL groups/teams and sites
so that the community members and the EMBL staff as a whole
can easily and openly collaborate, work together to spread Open Science practices.

[Lisanna]

• Compare and contrast assignment about current and desired community interactions and value exchanges
• Open Canvas

[Lisanna]

• Project repository
  Created in the EMBL GitLab to better reach the relative community, as discussed with project mentors.

[Lisanna]

• Project roadmap

[Elisa-on-GitHub]

Meeting agenda

Preparation, week 1 & 2:

* [Self-assessment notes](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YtQ-EoltN-_4D85vfnnscfS4DQJEp2iWrKyCtXWEz1Y/edit)

* [Vision statement notes](https://docs.google.com/document/d/19ukhbcNGoRctSG77dfdX_7XkEosf1hnVGy0cH4K354g/edit#)

Vision statement

I’m working with

* _the EMBL staff_,

* _especially the research staff that uses or develops computational biology tools_,

* _in particular the active members of Bio-IT community_

to improve the Bio-IT Grassroots project, supporting consultation across EMBL groups/teams and sites so that the community members and the EMBL staff as a whole can easily and openly collaborate, work together to spread Open Science practices.

This sounds like a lovely and praiseworthy project! Your vision statement is also clear and concise, easy to understand and to read. The one question I do have is if you will be working openly, and, if yes, how.

[Elisa-on-GitHub]

* [Compare and contrast assignment](https://docs.google.com/document/d/17rClfffzxalOa4Rk-MJqs_5Yxb5-MD8aDYDInaoilqc/edit#) about current and desired community interactions and value exchanges

* [Open Canvas](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qENlnOuE8hJltrQBVz6T_x1iH5wiyFRSNuFlMTe5z94/edit#slide=id.p)

(This is about your Open Canvas)
I think you did a very good job on your Open Canvas! I don't have much to add!

[Lisanna]

• README file

[Lisanna]

Meeting agenda
Preparation, week 1 & 2:

* [Self-assessment notes](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YtQ-EoltN-_4D85vfnnscfS4DQJEp2iWrKyCtXWEz1Y/edit)

* [Vision statement notes](https://docs.google.com/document/d/19ukhbcNGoRctSG77dfdX_7XkEosf1hnVGy0cH4K354g/edit#)

Vision statement
I’m working with

* _the EMBL staff_,

* _especially the research staff that uses or develops computational biology tools_,

* _in particular the active members of Bio-IT community_

to improve the Bio-IT Grassroots project, supporting consultation across EMBL groups/teams and sites so that the community members and the EMBL staff as a whole can easily and openly collaborate, work together to spread Open Science practices.

This sounds like a lovely and praiseworthy project! Your vision statement is also clear and concise, easy to understand and to read. The one question I do have is if you will be working openly, and, if yes, how.

Thank you @Elisa-PyDay, your feedback was really on point I believe. I will address this in the contributing guidelines for my project (WIP).

[Lisanna]

• Code of conduct

[mljaddy]

Meeting agenda

Preparation, week 1 & 2:

• Self-assessment notes
• Vision statement notes

Vision statement

I’m working with

• the EMBL staff,
• especially the research staff that uses or develops computational biology tools,
• in particular the active members of Bio-IT community

to improve the Bio-IT Grassroots project, supporting consultation across EMBL groups/teams and sites so that the community members and the EMBL staff as a whole can easily and openly collaborate, work together to spread Open Science practices.

The vision statement is clear. I look forward to how the community develops on your project.

[mljaddy]

• Compare and contrast assignment about current and desired community interactions and value exchanges
• Open Canvas

The open canvas is very broad and yet still captures the key information needed for the project. I am particularly interested in how the user channels will be operationalized.