Mozilla Science Lab Global Sprint 2016
Join us as we learn to collaboratively build projects transforming science on the web!
This two-day sprint event brings together researchers, coders, librarians and the public from around the globe to hack on open science and open data projects in their communities. This repo is the official list of participating projects at #mozsprint. Chat: http://gitter.im/mozillascience/community.
#mozsprint Activity
How did we do?
Projects Guide
Want to jump in during our annual #mozsprint? Here's a breakdown on some of the tasks going on! You can also look at our full list of projects. Project leads should be online and answering questions from 9-5 in the time zone listed for their project.
Browse all issues by track:
- TOOLS: Build software with the open source community
- CITIZEN SCIENCE: Participate in a citizen science project
- CURRICULUM: Collaborate on open educational resources
- OPEN DATA: Analyze and visualize freely available datasets
Browse all issues by level:
- BEGINNER: Everyone is welcome!
- INTERMEDIATE: Some experience helpful for jumping in.
- ADVANCED: Relevant experience needed to get involved.
Design
Calling all designers! Science needs UI/UX, too
- BEC Explorer #47: Join @joeyklee as he designs and builds an interactive data viewer for the Biogeoclimate Ecosystem Classification (BEC) zones in North America [Intermediate] [Open Data] [Tools]
- openSNP #10 : Help @gedankenstuecke refine the experience using opensnp.org [Intermediate] [Open Data] [Tools] [Citizen Science]
Writing Lessons, Docs and Standards
Ready to pen some words for science? Here's how you can help!
- Open Data Training #14 : @stephwright is developing curriculum for training. Join in! [Intermediate] [Curriculum]
- Open Science 101 #36: Join @aleimba and @matthiasfromm as they collect teaching resources/material for open science [Beginner] [Curriculum]
- Open Cosmics #30 Join @RaoOfPhysics as he works on a standard data format and schema for cosmic-ray data [Beginner] [Tools] [Open Data]
User Research / User Testing
Help out some projects by providing feedback or trying their workflow:
- STEMM Role Models #8: Let @KirstieJane know your thoughts on the STEMM Role Models app. Inspire future generations by providing the most exciting and diverse speakers for your conference. [Beginner] [Tools]
- PaperHive #43: PaperHive is the coworking hub for researchers. Our goal is to simplify research communication and transform reading into an active process of productive collaboration. We just launched our beta, so our next step is to encourage the creation of virtual reading clubs and reach out to already existing ones. @lmatthia. [Intermediate] [Citizen Science]
Writing Code
Itching to write some code? You've come to the right place
JavaScript
- Paper Badger #15: Issuing badges to credit authors for their work on academic papers. Help @acabunoc & @josmas migrate to Badgr. [Intermediate] [Tools]
- Science Fair #46: An electron app to search, collect, read and reuse the scientific literature on your desktop. @blahah [Intermediate] [Tools]
- Cytoscape.js graphs/networks rendering w/ Node.js and PhantomJS #25 help @maxkfranz build a Node.js package that people can
require()in their own projects to generate images of graphs/networks on the server side. [Intermediate] [Tools] - ContentMine #22: ContentMine provides tools for getting papers from many online sources, normalising them, then processing them to lookup and/or search for key terms, phrases, patterns, statements, and more - all highly configurable and open source. @chreman. [Intermediate] [Tools]
- pmc-ref #13: A quick way to check if an article's references are free to access in PubMed Central. @robsullivan [Beginner] [Tools]
Ruby
- DIYbiosphere #44: Work with @jasonbobe & @sabgaby to build a public database of DIYbio projects around the world. [Beginner] [Open Data] [Tools]
Shell
- CODE-RADE #41: CODE-RADE = Continuous Delivery of Research Applications in a Distributed Environment. Help @brucellino extend the platform to use uniqueness and persistence frameworks (ORCID/DataCite), and contributorship badges. [Intermediate] [Tools]
R
- Processing weather station data: Help @cbahlai and her open science course create an R package for processing weather station data for organismal ecologists [Beginner] [Tools]
- Exploratory analysis with Pathway Commons, R Cytoscape.js, and Shiny #33: Join @kdaily and he builds a modular R Shiny app to view biological pathways from Pathway Commons with user-provided data about nodes in the network. [Intermediate] [Tools]
- rmacroRDM R package #28: The rmacroRDM R package contains functions to help with the compilation of macroecological datasets. @annakrystalli. [Intermediate] [Tools]
- githubr #19: Work with @brian-bot to put githubr on CRAN. Making it easy to talk to GitHub from R. [Beginner] [Tools]
- Open data per default: building CeTrAn 5.0 (R code) #42: Work with @j_colomb to enhance CeTrAn in order to publish the data during the analysis of trajectory data (like open field test in rodents). [Intermediate] [Tools]
- Open data per default: building CeTrAn 5.0 (R code) #42: Work with @ropensci on Rfigshare and/or Rzenodo to make R use the API of Figshare and zenodo correctly. This will be then used in CeTrAn. [Advanced] [Tools]
Python
- Trillian #17: Trillian aims to make open astronomy data more usable, by automating the delegation of analysis tasks to remote data repositories. @demitri. [Advanced] [Tools]
- PhageParser #12: This project seeks to accelerate our understanding of disease immunity by leveraging open genetic data. @mbonsma [Intermediate] [Tools]
Jupyter Notebook :blue_book:
- Binder #21: System for deploying Jupyter notebooks from GitHub repos via Kubernetes. @andrewosh. [Intermediate] [Tools]
- everware #11: Everware allows you to launch Jupyter Notebooks into a docker container by specifying the url of a git repository. Get your project everware-ready with @ibab and @betatim. [Intermediate] [Tools]
Scala
- DynaML #26: Scala Library/REPL for Machine Learning Research. @mandar2812 [Intermediate] [Tools]