MozFest (now - Sept 30)

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:tada: :balloon:

• [x] 150 word Science space description for website (23rd) - @kaythaney? (do we have one already?)
  • sample space description https://festival.etherpad.mozilla.org/calls (line 137)
• [x] longer description with personas (23rd) - @kaythaney? (do we have one already?) -- @zee-moz will pull you in to this.
  • update here https://github.com/mozilla/mozfest-program/milestones/3/edit
• [ ] apply milestones / labels to sessions (24th) -- I can do this, have a start @acabunoc
  • applied [SCIENCE] Under Consideration label
  • officially accepted proposals are in the Open Science milestone
• [ ] fill out travel stipend allocation list (as soon as you know, deadline 30th)

cc / @arlissc @kaythaney @zee-moz

https://festival.etherpad.mozilla.org/calls

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From sarah:

We need all Space & pathway descriptions changed on the milestones by Wednesday 23rd COB . The big ask of the call is for all Spaces to submit the descriptive narrative of their Spaces on Github- so update the description on your Milestone

• We will need 150 descriptive paragraph on each Space which will be used as part of our comms outreach across various channels, this the small paragraph requirement.
• We will also need in additional to this paragraph, further details outlining your pathways within this space and the personas you built for. When outline in the pathways please remember to include the learning objectives. Lets aim for 120 words here too as max

@arlissc @acabunoc - do you have the description from last year, by any chance.

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Question: are we adding our team to the travel stipend allocation list? https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VYn3O4n6at_167XzX7YQSVE1A9sCDtbkD_5bMKLfwXQ/edit#gid=0

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Current text: Wrangled by: Kaitlin Thaney (@kaythaney), Abby Cabunoc Mayes (@acabunoc), Arliss Collins

The Science track provides a place for science enthusiasts, hobbyists, developers, librarians, educators and researchers to come together to explore core technologies and principles necessary to further web literacy. The track consists of three major components: a project-based, participatory sprint where participants can get their hands dirty, training to help hone skills around openness and participation, and an "open research accelerator" where participants can bring their problems to get help and mentorship from the community. This year, we're also baking in elements from the "Working Open" guide, as well as engaging the new Fellows and other community leads to be exemplars of mentors and community leads, in the hope that they'll serve as a model for participants to do the same.

Our target participants are those who are curious about science, looking to learn about open source, data, and tools to advance their work on the web. This encompasses researchers, but also youth interested in astronomy or citizen science, educators looking to fold learning back into their work, data journalists and more. The Open Science track cuts across all of those major demographics, with curated sessions and projects that show the commonality among those groups, and builds skills, confidence and excitement across the Festival.

We want participants to leave the Festival with a firmer hold on how to contribute to an open project, mentor and help others learn, as well as have a clear sense of how to roadmap and communicate their work with others. We also are piloting an "Open Research Accelerator" to appeal to community members looking for help in making their project more open - providing assistance in roadmapping, identifying contributor pathways, sharing and communication.

Our space crosses various groups, from developers and educators to librarians and citizen scientists, providing interesting use cases (based in science) for others to jump into, without the need for a PhD.

Beyond that, we've worked in professional and leadership development opportunities to incentivize others to join, and to ensure they're seeing value in participating. This is largely done through the training section and Open Research Accelerator.

Open Data is also a core theme for the track, which touches privacy, engagement, civic tech, news, etc., providing a common frame of reference for a number of core MozFest constituencies. This was the most powerful link last year, as well as training around data and GitHub.

Inclusion is a big item for us, and we want to ensure equality (especially given the disparity in science) is worked towards. Our Fellows will hopefully be emblematic of that, and we're working on how to meaningfully include that in our space design.