OpenAdvice

Ask your real-world questions or be an Open Advice Agony Aunt!

We are building a website providing Agony Aunt style advice to people who want to work openly but currently find themselves in a closed environment. We aim to help early career researchers do their best to be open even if they find that their supervisor doesn't support this goal. You don't have to wait until you are the boss!

The website was created by Kirstie and Danielle in preparation for OpenCon 2016. They launched the project during an unconference session and are excited to continue to develop the project going forwards.

Goals

• Collect information and anecdotes that will help researchers interested in openness start where they are.

• Collect stories of people who have moved from working in traditional closed workflow to working openly.

• Gather practical advice - what can a person can do when they can't follow ideal practices of openness?

• Gather links to resources and blogs.

• Get a conversation going between people with expertise in data sharing / working openly and researchers in the field who face barriers to openness (for example, people who do not have ownership of their data).

• If you've never made a GitHub website, join us to collaborate and we will show you!

Get involved

If you think you can help in any of the areas listed above (and we bet you can) or in any of the many areas that we haven't yet thought of (and here we're sure you can) then please check out our contributors' guidelines and our roadmap.

Please note that it's very important to us that we maintain a positive and supportive environment for everyone who wants to participate. When you join us we ask that you follow our code of conduct in all interactions both on and offline.

Licence

The content of this website is released into the public domain under the CC0 dedication, as detailed in this repository's LICENSE file.

The source code for the website itself is licensed under the MIT License.