Planning for the OpenScienceKE Hackathon held on the 30th and 31st August at KENET Training room, JKML, UoN.
Having trained on Open Science tools in our last workshop, this stage of the project seeks to foster collaboration among workshop attendees through a two-day hackathon, where they will get to experience the power of the wisdom of the crowds. In addition, this hackathon will afford the participants an opportunity to further solidify their skills while addressing questions of interest to the Open Science community in Kenya, and Africa as a whole.
We are in the process of developing ideas for the hackathon. Our initial thoughts can be accessed in the issues section. Hop in there to comment on the current ideas or suggest one by creating a new issue. The current ideas are:
The following projects have been selected for the hackathon:
Check the linked repos to know more about the projects. Reach out to the team leaders if you can help out with any of the projects.
We looking for projects that:
You can make an application to participate in the hackathon using the link: https://goo.gl/forms/kB8scJld2UG2NncH2. Applications Closed.
Find the hackathon schedule here.
All content of this repo is released under the CC-BY 4.0 license
We hereby acknowledge the funding for this project from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation through Mozilla Science Lab Mini-Grants.
The hackathon venue and computing resource support from Kenya Education Network (KENET) is also acknowledged.
For questions, suggestions or to participate, reach me via: