Our next community call will take place this Thursday, April 10. 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 each month, highlighting recent developments and work of the community relevant to science and the web. Join us to hear more about current projects, find out how you can get involved, and hear from others about their work in and around open research.

This month, it’s all about data, rOpenSci’s recent hackathon and new tools for collaboration in research.

We’ll be hearing more about rOpenSci‘s recent hackbreak (affectionately referred to as “rOpenHack” on Twitter), their first major developer meeting and open science hackathon. You might know rOpenSci from some of their educational work, leading trainings in R, as well as their work to create open source packages and tools for open science. Scott Chamberlain will be joining us to tell us more about the event, helf at GitHub HQ, as well as some of the projects that came out of the weekend. Want a sneak peek? He’s added some project pointers to the etherpad. Have a look …

We’ll also be joined by Max Ogden, who’ll be telling us about his project dat, a system for real-time replication, transformation, and versioning of large tabular datasets which recently received support from the Sloan Foundation (note: they also support the Science Lab). Interested in what it means for data to move freely on the web, like the web? Do tune in. Max will also be talking about how this ties into database package management,  his plans for the project moving forward, and how something like dat could help address some of the bottlenecks in research.

And last but not least, we’ll hear from Tiffany Bogich, a former disease ecologist and co-founder of Standard Analytics, an open source tool for organizing, publishing, and sharing research. Tiffany will be speaking about some of their work thus far, and their approach to better packaging together research components for collaboration and reproducibility.

Have a project, blog post or event you’d like to share relevant to open science? Add it to the etherpad (see line 121). 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, tune in and help us spread the word. Our first few calls have 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.

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Note: Having trouble dialing in? 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