Since the Mozilla Science Lab launched two years ago, we’ve tested ways to help the research community work together to build new tools for science. Through our Collaborate project platform and code sprints, we’ve seen that despite the interest in scientific software development, that sustaining development and doing so collaboratively remain a challenge.

This year, the Science Lab is launching the Open Research Accelerator as part of MozFest 2015, November 6-8 in London. The Open Research Accelerator focuses on practical training getting started in open source as well as hands-on experience building collaboratively.

Members of the Open Research Accelerator will:

• Receive 1-on-1 project help and mentorship at the MozFest for their projects to get started with open source. This includes help with project roadmapping, identifying pathways for new participants, engaging with contributors, open licensing and software citation.
• Run a sprint session on the final day of the MozFest as practical experience mentoring and engaging community on their project.

Perks

• MozFest 2015 admission
• Training & 1-on-1 project help from leaders in open source
• (optional) Facilitator training (Friday morning)
• Support to help run a sprint session for your project
• Access to a community of mentors, technologists and more.

All ideas will be stored in the Open Research Accelerator collection of Brief Ideas.

How to submit your project

To promote open research practices, all submission are archived, assigned a DOI (Zenodo), tied to your unique researcher identifier (ORCID) and publicly reviewed. We’re partnering with the Journal of Brief Ideas to handle submissions for the Open Research Accelerator.

• Submit your idea here

What to include in your application

• Summary of your project. What are you building?
• How does your project further open science on the web?
• Links to a GitHub repo or any other relevant links

What kinds of projects?

Anything related to doing or teaching open science is appropriate for the Open Research Accelerator. These can be tool-based, open educational resources or any other project ideas that further open science and allow others to contribute.

Selection process

We will notify successful applicants by  Oct 15, 2015.

 

Call closes Sept 30, 2015