Our next community call will take place this Thursday, October 9. The call is open to the public and will start at 11:00 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, we’re pleased to introduce the launch of our forum – please join us there anytime, to find out about upcoming events, get involved in one of our many open projects, or discuss all things open science with the community. We’ll be pointing out a few topics of interest, and as always, taking your feedback on how we can make this project even better.
Also landing this month – the project formerly known as Interdisciplinary Programming is ready for launch as the Science Lab’s contributorship pilot program! Announced at Strange Loop and LXJS last year by Angelina Fabbro and Bill Mills, this initiative to build routes for designers, developers and researchers to work together on open science has evolved into the Mozilla Science Lab’s first pilot study on collaboration in the community. We’ll be hearing from Brian Bot of Sage Bionetworks, one of the science teams participating in this project, on what they’ve learned as an organization participating at the intersection of science and software development, and from Bill on what’s on offer at this program’s launch.
If that wasn’t enough announcements, MozFest is also this month! Mozilla’s annual festival at Ravensbourne, London, is where passionate thinkers and inventors come together to learn from one another and engage in a conversation about how the web can do more, and do better. The Science Lab will be there hosting the Science & the Web track – we have dozens of sessions examining the potential of the open web to re-define how we experiment, analyze and share scientific knowledge, and we hope you’ll join us for this exciting and interactive event. Joining us on the Science Lab call this month will be Aure Moser, discussing her session on the future of computing for librarians, and Laura Paglione, discussing her session on building a badging framework for scientists.
Have an update, blog post or event you’d like to share relevant to open science? Add it to the etherpad (see ‘Non Verbal Updates’, line ~80). 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 – everyone is welcome. 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