How might we understand and address the time demands of working on open initiatives? [Workshop Challenge]

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Submission Name: How might we understand and address the time demands of working on open initiatives?
Contact Lead: zwakehyde@gmail.com and daniellecrobinson@gmail.com
Region: _What region is your project or challenge based out of, if any? North America
Issue Area: What area of Open Research or Open Education does your project or challenge fall under?
Issue Type: #Challenge, #Workshop

Description

OpenCon this year will include workshops focused on advancing region-specific issues in Open Research and Open Education. In one of these workshops we’re proposing and going to be working through “How might we understand and address the time demands of working on open initiatives?”.

We’re interested in this because managing time demands is a challenge anyone working on open issues is likely to be familiar with. It is common across the huge variety of roles within and aligned with Open Education, Open Access, Open Data, and beyond. For all of us, there are ongoing questions of adequately recognising and rewarding time contributions (financially or otherwise), considering who does and doesn’t have the time to dedicate to open projects and how that affects participation in the community, how to manage paid and volunteer workloads, and more. It’s a big, knotty question, but we’re looking forward to breaking it down and exploring it in more detail together.

Both Zoe and Danielle believe supporting people to contribute to and sustain open projects is key to the survival and growth of these projects. And we’ve seen great ideas and projects suffer from a lack of sustained effort investment, contributor burnout, and lack of resources. We’re excited to discuss how to better understand and address the time demands of working on open initiatives and surface strategies to help make working open sustainable.

How can others contribute?

Anyone can contribute to these efforts. The place to start in helping us more deeply understand the challenge from more angles. We’ve started the effort in this Google Document, and we invite you to jump in and share any thoughts. Before the workshop, we’ll use that document to help make sure our theme has the right emphasis and help plan the workshop.

For those not in the room, subscribe to this issue. We’ll post our outputs and notes here immediately after every session!

If you have an idea or comment to share that isn’t in the problem refinement exercise, and that you think won’t be covered in the workshop, we’d love to hear from you in the Github comments below.

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npscience commented 6 years ago

Subscribing (to listen in). Will be interested to hear outcomes and see where this goes.

asbtariq commented 6 years ago

why North America only? shouldn't this be global?

char-siuu-bao commented 6 years ago

Hi @Asbtariq! Global folks are definitely welcome to contribute to this conversation, but the issues that were tagged "workshops" are a little unique, because they were also used in OpenCon's regional workshop sessions at the in-person Berlin meeting. You (and anyone else!) are definitely welcome to share your ideas regarding this topic, however!

char-siuu-bao commented 6 years ago

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