Diagram

[karthik]

What we plan to do and why

I am missing a single diagram, probably in this section, which shows how the four activities work and interact with each other, and how they link to the identified areas of impact and what this means for the community when the project is successful.

There's a sense of a lot of detail when you get down to the individual activities, but I'm missing the motivation for why this configuration of things is the way to address the identified issues.

[karthik]

I came up with this really rough draft. Thoughts or ideas to show how the 4 areas are interlinked?

Does community fall under policy or should policy fall under community?

[karthik]

The arrows going out of training and incubator just feed into the community pool. I have named some of them, like better training means better science. Similarly, incubated projects are likely to succeed and better help scientists. Lessons learned from the incubator program, along with training, can lead to best practices for the entire community, not just for those who participate in either one. And better policy improves everyone's lives.

Thoughts?

[danielskatz]

A couple of thoughts

1. it might make sense to add training materials to best practices
2. I wonder if this could be overlaid in some way with the impact areas? (software, people, ecosystem)? Maybe these three could be a three-segment arc around the outside, with arrows going from what your drew outward? Or these could be three circles in a Venn-like diagram, with your items placed inside them somehow?

[karthik]

1. Is there in the figure.

I tried circles but will have to give that another go. Not quite a venn diagram since I don't have 3 distinct areas. Maybe something like this?

[karthik]

I'll work on overlaying this with people, software, and ecosystem

[danielskatz]

I was thinking something like this as the venn diagram idea

[danielskatz]

Ok, I just realized I've started redoing some of the evaluation action that we are supposed to be doing for Friday, and I've actually recreated one of the templates that we were given

[karthik]

The challenge with a venn diagram is that there has to be something at the intersection of every two areas and one big thing in the center. I'd have to think more if there are such obvious overlaps, so if not, in practice they would be non overlapping.

[karthik]

Also in the example you did above, training is under software, but we train people and impact software. Ecosystem has nothing, but in reality all the changes to software, training and policy work to positively impact the overall ecosystem. Hard to capture as a venn.