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Notes from the "Community" break out session from the Vic Meeting 15th August 2018 #39

Closed njtierney closed 5 years ago

njtierney commented 6 years ago

Hi Everyone!

Here are the notes I made last week at the victoria RSE meeting, from the break out group on "Community".

Community in Research Software

What do we want out of the community?

Other ideas

rowlandm commented 6 years ago

Nice work Nicholas.

I will be happy to try and form a Unimelb RSE community with this in mind. I will be catching up with Nick Golding next week to talk more about it.

Anyone who wants to help form a Unimelb RSE community can contact me at rowland.mosbergen@unimelb.edu.au

On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 4:56 PM Nicholas Tierney notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi Everyone!

Here are the notes I made last week at the victoria RSE meeting, from the break out group on "Community". Community in Research Software

  • The community needs to be established early as a safe, inviting space
  • The community should meet face to face, ideally in a small ish group (40-60), for a few days, to discuss ideas.
  • We could create a directory of contacts (which could be public/private facing), which would provide a way for people to find others with skill sets they would like to work with.
  • Events we could run include unconference type events, such as the rOpenSci unconference - See the USA unconf in 2018 http://unconf18.ropensci.org/ and the Australian ozunconf in 2017 http://ozunconf17.ropensci.org/.
  • Another event could be a grant application evening event, where people work together to create a grant application in an evening, and then pitch the idea at the end of the night. A winner is announced by vote, and they win a small monetary prize

What do we want out of the community?

  • A space to get help
  • A place for support

Other ideas

  • A full-time community manager would very valuable
  • mediums for communication: Slack, Twitter, Discuss forum

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