snowwitje
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7 years ago co-facilitating this one. Part of Open Project Lead program.
Open mozfest-bot opened 7 years ago
snowwitje
commented
7 years ago co-facilitating this one. Part of Open Project Lead program.
[ ID ] e06fedfd-4b50-45eb-8225-912e76b05575
[ Submitter's Name ] Kevin Wojkovich [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] HUBzero, Purdue University [ Submitter's Twitter ] @hubzeroplatform
[ Space ] science
[ Format ] learning-lab
Description
Participants will build an online collaboratory to explore and evaluate existing web platforms and tools which facilitate building and growing an open scientific community. Using the open source HUBzero platform as a catalyst, participants will explore applications developed around the unique needs of disparate scientific communities of various knowledge domains both large and small. In the session we will work together to create a rubric to evaluate features that facilitate scientific exploration, communication, and education.
Agenda
Participants will break into small groups and use the HUBzero Platform group functionality to collect evidence and present out on how well the current features work together. Each group will generate a case-study of an existing open platform and service such as Wordpress, Slack, or Pinterest to evaluate its application in online scientific communities. We will use a whiteboard, posted notes etc to keep track of all ideas that come up. Facilitators will have a number of starting points prepared to jump-start the conversation.
Note: this session is 1 of 3 submitted by the same group. We think that a series of meetups across multiple days will help connect with participants better, create a kind of micro-community and achieve more tangible results by the end of the weekend.
Participants
In the event of three participants, the activity facilitators will work directly with the participants to move through all of the case studies at a semi-accelerated rate to gain as much exposure to solutions for the wild. For fifteen participants we would like to keep the groups relatively small and focus on small group communication and split the groups into 5 groups of 3. Twenty-five participants will break into 5 groups of 5. The facilitators will prepare 10 case studies in order to scale up.
Outcome
Participants will gain a better understanding of collaborative scientific communities and their needs for online resources. They will learn how to evaluate options which cater to their community’s need. We are looking to take away learnings from the experiences of our participants on parts of the platforms that could be smoother or have helped them in some of the projects in which they have been involved regarding communities. And of course, we are looking to meet great Mozfest people for further collaboration.