Introducing the #mozsprint demo call

Open projects you can help during #mozsprint

Interested in #mozsprint? Want to hear about the projects beforehand? This call is for you!

Mozilla’s Global Sprint (#mozsprint) is a fun, fast-paced and two-day collaborative event to hack and build projects for a healthy Internet. A diverse network of scientists, educators, artists, engineers and others come together in person and online to innovate in the open.

Leading up to #mozsprint, we’re featuring projects you can work on during the event! This is your chance to hear from project leads, get to know the projects and ask your questions.

Everyone is welcome to join in! Designers, developers, researchers, teachers — pretty much anyone interested in participating and learning how to get involved in an open project. We could use all sorts of input (beyond code), so if you’re new to open source, come join us! We’d love to have you involved.

Demo call schedule

https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/mozsprint-2017-demos

There are two options to join each demo call! Tuesday, 5p ET (21:00 UTC) / Wednesday, 11a ET (15:00 UTC).

April Demos

May Demos

Post-#mozsprint Demos

Go to the #mozsprint website to get your tickets, add your project or host a site in your city!

Fellows Feedback: Revisiting My Application for Mozilla Fellowship for Science 2016

So – you’re thinking of applying to the Mozilla Fellowship for Science… but you have some questions not addressed by the FAQ. First, I want to encourage you to reach out to the current and former fellows. We are busy, but we are friendly! I’ll try to address some of the things I was worried about when I was applying, and then follow that with the full text of my application answers.

On Advisors:  “As fellows will be based at their home institutions, please note that a letter of support from their advisor is mandatory for consideration” CUE PANIC! Who should be my advisor??!??!  My PhD advisor was not an option to be my fellowship advisor. He’s not an open science person, and didn’t understand or support what I wanted to do. I was worried that not having a letter from my PhD supervisor would make me look bad, as it would in a normal academic fellowship application. Despite this, there was no way I was going to use him as an advisor for the application. Lucky for me, this is not a normal academic fellowship. I asked Robin Champieux – a frequent collaborator, library faculty, and a major open science advocate at my institution –  and a dean at the graduate school to co-sponsor me. In retrospect, I only needed Robin’s support. I thought the dean might lend some credibility to my application, in the absence of the support of my PhD mentor. However, the role of the advisor is to support your efforts at you home institution, so I’d recommend finding someone who knows you and understands what you want to work on, rather than someone who sounds fancy.

On Experience:…have experience participating in open communities”  CUE SELF DOUBT! Have I done enough?!?! When I applied for the fellowship, most of the projects I’d done were events based at my home institution. I did not regularly make contributions to open source projects. I was just barely learning to code. I was too intimidated to go to OpenCon or Mozilla community calls. (Hot Tip: Community calls are fun and you don’t have to talk.) I didn’t participate in the 2016 Mozilla Global Sprint because I was intimidated and didn’t know how I’d be useful. (Hot Tip for 2017: See you all at the Mozilla Global Sprint – I need help developing curriculum, no coding required.) My advisor was not supportive. I hadn’t spoken at conferences on open science issues. In summary: I wasted time worrying, comparing myself to others and minimizing what I had accomplished. Remember, you definitely won’t get this fellowship if you don’t apply! So if you’re eligible and you’re thinking about it – DO IT. Write a draft! Have your colleagues and friends help you toot your own horn a little. Get it in before the deadline (that part is critical). Think about what you would do with the support and resources that this fellowship provides. Don’t hesitate, and don’t doubt yourself!

On Projects: I proposed multiple projects, and wound up working on some things (like Data Rescue) that emerged during the fellowship. In my application and during my phone interviews, I tried to emphasize how each project would impact a specific aspect of the scientific system. Other fellows have focused mainly on one project. Both single project and multiple project approaches can be successful in this fellowship.

My Application: When I was applying for the Mozilla Fellowship for Science in 2016, I found the blogs by the 2015 Fellows, such as Christie Bahlai’s, really useful. In that spirit, here is my application from the 2016 cycle with new comments on what’s happened since then, in italics.

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What research fields are you in? (25 words)
I am a neuroscientist and cell biologist who is passionate about improving research practices and science policy for the future of science.

Still true! I no longer work at the bench, but I’m still a scientist. I now have direct experience advocating for policy at the national and state level. I have have time to focus on institutional policy issues. And, importantly, I am a more effective communicator and a confident leader because of the fellowship.

What is your research focus? (50 words)
I study the demyelinating peripheral neuropathy Charcot Marie Tooth 4B2, a disease caused by the loss of a protein with an unknown function. I am working to understand the basic biology behind this disease using genetic knock-out models, cell culture, molecular biology, virally-mediated genetic manipulations, and fluorescence and electron microscopy.

I finished my PhD, so this has changed. I now spend most of my time thinking about open data, project management, and projects that support an inclusive future for science.

Describe to us your current research team. (50 words)
My research team includes cell and molecular biologists, neuroscientists, myelin biologists, as well as fluorescence and electron microscopy specialists. My lab is currently a small group (4 people) but we collaborate within our institution and globally. My open science advocacy partners include faculty, students, librarians, and open source community members.

My team has changed now that I’m no longer in the lab. However, my experience at the bench helps me advocate for researchers at the bench because I understand what they do every day, how academic incentives impact research, and their priorities. Today, my team is my fellow-fellows, the 2015 fellows, Mozilla Science and Advocacy teams, and most importantly – the worldwide Mozilla community! When I want feedback on a project, I bring it to the community call and get comments from around the world. I :heart: #mozfamily!

Describe to us how open science advances your research. (100 words)
Through years of research in neuroscience labs, I’ve seen cultural and technical barriers stand in the way of open science and data sharing. Until recently, I thought this was how science worked. After learning about the open science movement, I began teaching myself tools to ensure my work is transparent, reproducible, and archival. Meetups in the local open source scene empowered me to learn to code. Code literacy has been transformative for my scientific practice in terms of efficiency, reproducibility, and data management. I’m not an expert, but I seek out resources and try to teach as I learn.

This fellowship has enabled me to develop my skills working with open tools and I’ve co-founded a Mozilla Study Club (BioData Club). I an a co-organizer of csv,conf,v3, I’ve taught Working Open Workshops (Montreal, miniWOW PDX, and more on the way), I’ve taught numerous intros to GitHub, and data rescue events. In summary, I’ve boosted my skills and gained a lot of valuable experiences!

Are you leading any projects related to open science? (100 words)
Open Insight PDX – Hands-on workshops and interactive discussions designed to bolster coding skills and introduce scientists to national and international leaders in the open science and open source communities. Events included Collaboration with Git and GitHub, Data and Doughnuts roundtable with Phil Bourne (NIH Data Science Director), Mark Hahnel (Figshare), Bastian Greshake (OpenSNP).

Science Hack Day PDX – 48 hour event that will facilitate collaborative projects between Portland’s scientist, open source, designer, and maker communities.

Rstats for n00bs – Workshop designed for small data scientists who are new to coding. Covers installation of R-studio, importing data, exploring data, and basic statistical tests.

So, I’ve done a lot of projects since the fellowship started in September. See my Project of Projects and fellowship resume for more on what’s been happening this year.

How do you see Mozilla advancing your work? (50 words)
Scientists need education around workflows and resources that make open science practices an easy investment. Good tools exist, but they are not typically taught during scientific training. Support from Mozilla will help me move new ideas into labs by eliminating the tool-barrier and hacking the culture to encourage open practices.

I’ve been able to invest time and energy into getting open tools in front of scientists and pushing the needle on open science at my institution. The work isn’t done. But with Mozilla resources and support, I’ve made progress at my institution. I hope this can serve as a case study for others!

What do you see as the opportunities for impact around open research at your university? Could you leverage this opportunity in a potential
project? (50 words)

There are labs on campus with potential to become open champions. They attend open science discussions and hands-on open tool workshops, but they don’t have consistent open policies and practices. I can provide support to identify and overcome barriers to openness, and create case studies for developing open champions.

The time and energy myself and my collaborators have spent getting open tools in front of these potential champions has worked in some cases and is still a work in progress in other cases. Cultivating open champions within in institution is an impactful way to push scientific culture towards openness – but like a lot of my projects, the work isn’t done yet.

What do you think needs to change most immediately in scientific research? (100 words)
Culture. Scientific culture moves slowly. To keep their jobs and maintain labs, investigators buy into the existing system and train their students to do the same. I can’t count the times I’ve been told “That’s the way science works” as justification for secrecy, biassed processes, nonsensical assessment structures, and other cultural constructs that have little do with scientific inquiry. It is more efficient, reproducible, and impactful to work openly. All scientists want to be efficient, reproducible, and impactful. We need to leverage this to instigate broad cultural change towards open science.

I stand by this answer! I haven’t fully changed scientific culture in the last six months, but I’ve made some good progress and plan to devote my career to improving scientific culture and practice.

What project in the field do you find most inspiring to further science and the web? (50 words)
I am inspired by ASAPbio’s use of education and outreach to get biologists to use existing preprint infrastructure. High profile champions were created at the ASAPbio meeting and preprints have now been posted from several historically secretive labs. This project’s strategy is pushing scientific culture towards openness and web-based resources.

I stand by this answer – ASAPbio is awesome!

Why is the the open web important to you? (25 words)
The open web is the future of science. Scientific methods and data now live online, but only the open web enables accessibility, transparency, and reproducibility.

Yep! Still true! In fact, now I fully appreciate how science depends on the web. A healthy future for science depends on a healthy internet.

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I hope this is helpful to those applying to the 2017 cycle!  I am happy to talk to people who are considering applying. Find me @daniellecrobins

Save the Date! Mozilla’s Global Sprint June 1st-2nd

Join us and collaborate on open projects from around the world! Mozilla’s Global Sprint is a fun, fast-paced, two-day collaborative world-wide work event where anyone– coders, designers, writers, artists, activists, educators, students– can pitch in to build and protect the open Web!

The Global Sprint originated with the Mozilla Science Lab (you can get a glimpse of a past MSL Sprint here); this year we’re going Network-wide. Your open project is welcome, whether you’re working on web literacy curriculum, hacking on the Internet of Things, developing apps to protect user privacy online, creating new scientific software, planning local community events, or creating tools that make data open accessible to all.

Mozilla is a champion of an open, healthy, and accessible Internet for all, so this year our tracks for the Sprint are topics crtitical to Internet Health:

  1. Open Innovation
  2. Digital Inclusion
  3. Privacy + Security
  4. Decentralization
  5. Web Literacy

At the Science Lab we’re especially excited to participate in this year’s Sprint because it’s a tradition for us, to galvanize activity around open science projects and support open research on the web, and we’re so please to launch the event with the rest of Mozilla this year!

Get involved!

Participate and contribute during the Sprint. Select a project that’s a good fit for your interests and skills, and pitch in! On June 1st and 2nd you can collaborate online or come to one of our local host sites to work, network, and hang out with fellow Sprinters. Information for Participants is here.

Bring a Project to the Sprint. Welcome contributions from a diverse, skilled and passionate group of people from around Mozilla’s Network and around the world, to move your project forward by leaps and bounds. Information for Project Leads is here.

Host a Local Site at the Global Sprint. Activate a local space– a classroom, a community center, a makerspace–  as a Sprint Host Site, and help draw participants to this fun, social, collaborative work event. Information for Site Hosts is here.

All your up-to-date 2017 Global Sprint information is on the Global Sprint Site. For more about Science Lab’s  2017 Global Sprint activities, contact us (sciencelab@mozillafoundation.org).  Happy Sprinting!

Coding to Combat Cyber-Bullying

This project is supported by a grant from CIRA’s Community Investment Program. CIRA’s Community Investment Program gives back by supporting initiatives and programs that help build a better online Canada.

Mozilla’s Youth-Led March Break Camp was designed by youth for youth. Youth from the Ca.pture Youth Council, along with facilitators from YWCA Toronto, YEP and Hive Toronto collaborated and developed the structure and curriculum for the camp. The goal was to have the youth create space, provide resources and teach basic coding skills and empower their peers through story-telling, group discussions and dialogue.

Outreach  

Together with YEP, YWCA Toronto and the Youth Council, we reached out to community members – both leaders in the field as well as youth in the GTA. We were excited to bring 20+ youth from different communities from across Toronto to the camp ranging from ages 12 – 17, interested in learning how to code for social change.

Camp Day 1 | March 15th, 2017

We started first day of camp with ice-breaker games led by youth facilitators (camp counsellors), giving everybody a chance to get to know each other. Next we moved into creating safe space and generated a safe word together. A safe word can be a single word or phrase that is uncommonly said in everyday dialogue. It is used when an individual is experiencing a triggered moment or a reaction to the current conversation that results in discomfort, affecting one’s mental and possibly physical health. The safe word allows one to let others know in the group that they need a moment to themselves, or with a facilitator if requested, and a time-out from the conversation and settings. We discussed the importance of building a space together that will help us create dialogue dealing with sensitive issues and triggered memories from cyberbullying. Together we learnt how we can respect, care and listen to each other.

What I think is a safe space, is a place where you go and you are not judged for who you are.”, Youth

Alex and Tia, youth facilitators, leading a safe space and safe word discussion and exercise.

Youth facilitators continued to lead conversations about “What is Cyberbullying” with the activity, “Four-Corners”. Using a list generated by youth from previous co-design sessions, camp counsellors would read out a definition and ask learners to pick a corner – choices were: agree, disagree, neutral and unsure. Each person from a “corner” were asked to communicate their choice – why and how they got there. This exercise provided an in-depth look into how young people identify with many common statements about cyberbullying and their thinking process in arriving at an opinion on the topic. An interesting discussion was raised by youth who were either on opposing sides or who were unsure and seemingly able to debate both. In addition, youth were able to switch “corners” after hearing their peers’ argument, many chose to do so. This shows that the cyberbullying discourse is often confusing, conflicting and fluid, and that youth need to be a part of the conversation not only with adults but with each other.

From this activity we moved into building our stories together as a group. The youth facilitators talked the campers through how to describe their stories, what tools they found helpful and how to approach the subject. Questions to answer were put forward – Where did it happen? What happened? What did you wish happened differently? What do you want to tell parents / educators?

It was inspiring to see youth think about the questions, create meaningful dialogue, begin to share their stories and how to apply descriptive language to a memory. Many youth found it difficult to describe their stories and were shy to share with others. Time is also needed to allow a person to process and create confidence in sharing a sensitive, often traumatic experience. In response to that, an exercise book was created to allow campers to take home and work through on their storytelling while linking it up to the coding elements they were about to tackle on the second day.

Camp Day 2 | March 16th, 2017  

Youth facilitators started off with a re-cap on safe space, safe word, self care and our collective cyber-bullying definition, followed by some exercises to help create a relaxed and comfortable environment with the chance to learn more about each other. Day 2 was designed to be an intensive day of coding on Thimble, led by Mozilla staff in collaboration with the camp counsellors. It was a busy day filled with the buzzing excitement of coding. All youth facilitators were on their toes, moving around, answering any questions, helping each camper with their Thimbles and supporting their personal narratives of cyber-bullying.

Michael and Aïssata leading the “What is cyberbullying” dialogue with activity – “Four-Corners”.

 

Camp Day 3 | March 17th, 2017

The morning started off with youth wrapping up their Thimbles followed by a gallery walk, allowing everybody to take the time to read each other stories. It was great to witness the responses, the conversations, the relatability and the connection youth had with their peers’ stories, showing how powerful it can be to hear and share experiences from the community.

A final check in with the campers, led by youth facilitators, allowed us to understand how the campers felt about the Ca.pture program, coding and to give space for further dialogue on cyber-bullying.

“I learned more about cyberbullying and I learned that there’s always someone there to help.”, Youth

Final day’s “Gallery Walk” – youth walking around and reading each other’s cyberbullying Thimble stories.

Findings – working towards strengthening our community building

There were many insightful and powerful conversations had during this camp, with youth sharing their ideas, stories and thoughts on cyberbullying. The voices echoed in this camp were the ones that needed to be heard and to be shared with not only facilitators and peers, but other youth, adults and community leaders building upon online safety and web literacy. Ca.pture youth facilitators were integral to making this experience possible, they took charge, owned the space and lead important discussions with their peers. They questioned existing discourses on cyberbullying and shared experiences and stories, pushing the boundaries of institutional learning. Together youth camp counselors and youth participants amplified their voices, proving that there is a need for them to be given a platform to be heard and when given the chance, they will take up the leadership needed to promote and advocated for better digital citizenship and a safe space and community on the web.

I will use these skills and teach it to other people, like I’ve been taught here, Youth

Group photo of adult facilitators, youth camp counselors and youth campers.

 

Hive Toronto welcomes our newest cohort of members and allies!

We are excited to welcome our newest members and community allies for the 2017/2018 year. For the first time in its history, Hive Toronto in alignment with Hive NYC and Hive Chicago initiated a new category of membership; community allies. In past years, membership was only open to formally registered, community-serving organizations. However we recognize that many community organizers, coalitions, individual supporters and a host of other groups continue to contribute amazing work, space and programming in the city of Toronto around digital and web literacy. The community ally category allows a more diverse membership cohort moving forward and we are excited for the collaborations to come.

To learn more about the criteria for each category, check out our membership page here

Please join us as we look forward with a new year of community connection, professional development and youth empowerment!

Our new members and allies are:

Hive Member:

License 2 Learn

UrbanArts Community Arts Council

INKspire Youth Organization

Right to Play:

Community Ally:

Brock University: Karen Smith

NU (New Understanding)

STEM Kids Rock

Paperhouse Studio

NASA Space Apps

If you have any questions about membership to Hive Toronto, please contact hivetoronto@mozillafoundation.org

2017 Fellows for Science Call for Applications

This week, the Mozilla Science Lab is launching our third annual Mozilla Fellowship for Science program. Starting in September 2017, we’re sponsoring researchers to build projects in support of science, and we’d love for you to be a part of that process. The call will be open until May 14th, with further details in the application, but we wanted to call out some of the amazing features of the fellowship and especially encourage our community to apply!

WHY APPLY?

The Mozilla Fellowship for Science is an opportunity to spend 10 months working with an institution (university or other academic affiliation) building open science projects that leverage the open web. If you are interested in open science, open access, open data or open source, and you’d like to make the world a better place through research and collaboration, you should apply for the chance to join other talented and brilliant fellows in the upcoming fellows’ cohort.

 

This is not your typical research grant or academic opportunity, it’s a chance to do something creative, splitting time between your own work, collaborative passion projects, as well as teaching and conference travel. Each of those activities is given equal weight during the fellowship, and you’ll receive support, financial and mentorial, throughout your tenure as a fellow. You’ll be joining a supportive community of fellows and alumni from our program as well as affiliate programs like the Open Web Fellows, contacts that will grow with you and continue to support you beyond the fellowship. Further, you’ll be joining the greater Mozilla network, and you’ll have the epic opportunity to work on the open tech affecting a broad community of web contributors and consumers, you’ll be a strong advocate for open science in that ecosystem and we’ll support you as you develop professionally and personally.

Our current 2016-2017 Mozilla Science Fellows

Keep in mind, this year we’ve opened our fellowship call up to our global community and to all scientific research disciplines. Potential fellows from all over the world, from physical, natural, life, social and library sciences are welcome and eligible, and we look forward to reading your applications!

WHAT DO FELLOWS DO?

Fellows work with their research institutions and convene a few times a year to discuss their work and collaborate with their cohort. We have fellows working on open data and data reuse curriculum, biomedical research programs, open source tools to teach the world about the command line bioinformatics or climate science, as well as institutional policy and advocacy. Check out the blogs of our current fellows to get a feel for the types of projects and programs the work on, and the issues that are important to them:

Fellow together for our on-boarding in Toronto 2016

We welcome a diversity of applicants from our global community, and the experiences documented in the fellows’ blogs are only the beginning of an evolving program. We’ll be featuring individual blog posts from our fellows over the next few weeks to provide additional context to their fellowship experiences. Stay tuned for those on our blog!

WHERE CAN I APPLY?

Ready to apply? Here are the links and details in brief:

Application deadline – May 14th
Questions? – check out the FAQ tab here
Join us on our Community Call this Thursday, for more details on the fellowship and to hear more from the Science Lab team! Thanks for reading, happy applying!

Community Call April 13, 11ET

This week, we’re hosting a community call on issues of trust in science, and we want you there! For background, the Science Lab community call takes place every other 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 listen to others (or yourself!) discuss work in and around open research.

Our upcoming community call is this Thursday, April 13th. 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). This month, we’ll feature speakers on Air Mozilla, a video live-streaming platform which will be a departure from our typical dial in, and hopefully more accessible!

We have video for the call this month!

This month, we’ll be talking about trust, featuring people who build scientific projects and programs that grapple with trust issues, advocate for research integrity, or test and collect metrics around the general trustworthiness of scientific disciplines. We’ll hear from the following set list of impressive contributors to trusted network communities:

  • Sucheta Ghoshal – developing Open Science in the Public Interest @sucheta_ghoshal, Social Computing, Georgia Tech
  • Seamus Tuohy – crowdsourcing resources for modeling risk @seamustuohy, Internet Initiatives, Internews
  • Jon Hill – bridging the ideological gap between academia + open science @jonxhill, University of York
  • Amber Budden – collaborating on data across institutions @aebudden, AAAS CEFP + DataONE
  • Danielle Robinson – surveying diversity, policy and inclusion in scientific institutions @daniellecrobins, Mozilla Fellow

We’ll also hear our closing updates from our 2016 Mozilla Fellows for Science! Should be a great call!

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’). 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 on art in open science for an idea of what others contributed to the conversation.

Join via this link: https://air.mozilla.org/mozilla-science-lab-april-2017-bi-monthly-community-call/

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!

Our Last Day Together

This project is supported by a grant from CIRA’s Community Investment Program. CIRA’s Community Investment Program gives back by supporting initiatives and programs that help build a better online Canada.

This post is submitted by Erum Hasan from the YWCA Girls Center. Erum is an active member of the YWCA Girls Council, a long-time member of Hive Toronto.

Our Ca.pture Youth Council group got together on Saturday, February 4th for our last session. We started off with a discussion and a quick intro to what everyone is up to which created a joyful environment.

We then moved onto a creative team building activity, which was writing one positive comment about each other. It was really helpful to give a chance for everyone to show their appreciation with each other  and express how glad we were to be together on this project.

I also had the opportunity to support other youth facilitators with finishing their Thimble templates and coding. I learned that it was crucial to be patient at first since it was hard to explain how the coding works and what it does (the back end and the product).

It was great connecting with other youth facilitators. We sat in a circle to discuss our excitement for the march break camp. We decided on the details of where the camp will be held and the positions and roles we will be assigned and how the outline/schedule will look like. We looked at how to incorporate everything we have done together into the march break camps.

We ended our day with  making buttons.  It was pleasant to enjoy the afternoon with peers, just listening to music and chatting.  I would love to make more badges and even fund-raise for local charities. Being part of Ca.pture, a digital storytelling project that addressed cyberbullying had a positive impact on my life. I gained valuable experience while working with my peers and learning how to code for social change.

I would like to thank Wendy, Lena, Flora, Gideon and Simona for inviting me to blog as well as participate in this meaningful project and for the opportunity to meet and make new friends.  I learned a few interesting things about my peers:

Najeeb, 15

Favourite thing about Ca.pture?

Coding

Coolest place you want to go, but haven’t yet?

California, Hollywood

Jawad, 14

One facilitator you connected with?

Simona- share same interests and is funny.

One skill you brought?

Energy

Abeer, 15

Favourite thing about Ca.pture?

Coding

Coolest place you want to go, but haven’t yet?

California, Hollywood

Afshar, 14

Tea, Coffee or Hot Chocolate?

Hot Chocolate

One new friend you made?

Najeeb-Funny

Michael, 16

Cats or Dogs?

Dogs

Favourite Mozilla Memory?

Learning to Code.

Aïssata, 16

If you were a superhero, who would it be and why?

Batman- He is the most normal one.

Favourite Mozilla memory?

Paper Tower Activity- Engaging and Fun!

Lena, 19

(youth facilitator)

Favourite thing about Ca.pture?

Involving youth to reduce and prevent cyberbullying.

Emoji you would use to describe yourself?

Blushy.

Study Groups + Google Summer of Code 2017

Each year, Google kicks off a project to support student technologists in contributing to open source between semesters, called Google Summer of Code (GSoC). This year, the Mozilla Science Lab is happy to announce that we will be a host organization for one student to work on collecting statistics and creating visualizations of our Study Group Project!

The Project

The objective of the project as we submitted it, is to solicit a student contributor for three months to work on stats visualizations for the Study Group forks, for placement on the Study Group Events page. It should be a fun project with multiple opportunities to build skill in data architecture development, scripting-language development, and visualization concepting!
Interested in learning more, or submitting a proposal?

Our tidy little GSoC Planning Repo!

The planning repository includes many files that hopefully will help our student applicants submit proposals:
  • Timeline – GSoC timeline for proposal submission
  • Roadmap – outline for the project goals (short–>longterm) and the labeling schema for issues
  • Readme – overview of the project and all metadata the students need for their proposals
  • Issues – pre-populated with some idea issues from the roadmap, following the issue template
  • Contributor.md – guidelines for contributors (adapted from Abby’s model for Paper Badger
  • Data – some example files for making maps or charts
  • Code of Conduct – our standard guidelines for the Science Lab apply here too :)

Our issues have a few simple labels, check out the issues here!

Apply!

Deadline for proposal submissions is April 3rd, and we’d love to select someone from our Mozilla Science Community! Please submit, and check out this handy guide for how to submit a proposal here. For project-specific inquiries, review the Study Group GSoC repo and reach out to aurelia[at]mozillafoundation[dot]org.
Happy coding!