Our first community call of 2014 will take place this Thursday, January 9. The call is open to the public and will start at 11 am ET. Call in details can be found on the call etherpad (where you can also find notes and the agenda) and on the wiki. (If you have trouble with the toll-free number, try one of the numbers at the bottom of this post.)
The Science Lab meeting is our community call, taking place on the second Thursday of every month, highlighting what we’re up to as well as work of the community relevant to science and the web. Join us to hear more about current projects, ways you can get involved, and hear from others about their work in and around open science.
This month, we’ll be following up on one of our recent guest posts by Sophie (Kershaw) Kay from the Open Science Training Initiative on teaching reproducible science. She’ll be walking us through some of her work in introducing graduate students to the many facets of reproducible science, and telling us about their plans moving forward. It’s a fascinating course – do tune in.
We’ll also be hearing from one of our Mozilla colleagues, Victor Ng, who’s been hacking on the Open Access Button. Stay tuned for more this week on his work in extending the project to help surface archived copies of otherwise paywalled research.
Also have a look at some of our wrap-up posts from last month’s information-rich call. Check out recent news in the community, refresh your memory about some of Ed Lazowska’s talk on the new Moore/Sloan funded data science centers or delve into some of the issues for our new project with Github and figshare around code as a research object. (Many thanks to Amy Brown for helping us distill those!)
Have a project, idea or blog post you’d like to share relevant to open science? Add it to the etherpad (see line 86). It’s a great way to share what you’re working on and/or interested in with the community. Don’t be shy. Have a look at last month’s notes for an idea of what others contributed to the conversation.
Mark your calendars, and help us spread the word. Our first two calls hit record participation (and stretched the limits of open software solutions). Let’s see if we can drum up the same turnout, and be sure to join us a few minutes before 11 ET to secure a spot on the line. For call-in details and links to the etherpad, visit our wiki page. We hope you’ll join us.
Note: Our last couple of community calls have been so well-attended that we overstretched the capabilities of our conference call system! If you have trouble accessing the toll-free conference call number, try one of these numbers. (Note that they are toll calls and you’ll be charged by your telephone company if the number is long-distance.)
After you enter the extension, you’ll be asked for the conference ID, which is 7677.
- US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, extension 92
- US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, extension 92
- US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, extension 92
- CA/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, extension 92
- CA/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, extension 92
- UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, extension 92
- FR/Paris: +33 1 44 79 34 80, extension 92