{"id":3835,"date":"2016-11-07T14:15:08","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T19:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/science.mozilla.org\/blog\/?p=3835"},"modified":"2016-11-07T14:15:08","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T19:15:08","slug":"thank-you-sloan-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-science\/thank-you-sloan-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Continued Support with Major Award from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2013, we set out to build Mozilla’s first open science program with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation<\/a>. Over three years later, we’re pleased to announce a two-year award from the Sloan Foundation to further support that work in advancing openness, adoption and reproducibility in science.<\/p>\n

We’ve come a long way over the course of the past few years, beginning with a program rooted in computational training, prototypes that made it possible to get a DOI for your code<\/a> and redirect you to Open Access preprints when you hit a paywall<\/a>. We dug into Code Review for scientists<\/a>, and evolved a mentorship model<\/a>. Our team grew, as did our ambitions, securing our second round of support from the Sloan Foundation to further extend open practice and open source in science, as well as support from other foundations such as the Helmsley Charitable Trust to ramp up our work in investing in community through Fellowships<\/a> and peer-to-peer learning, and furthering training around openness, collaboration and contributorship worldwide.<\/p>\n

\"UJaffna<\/a>Today, we have thousands of researchers in our network many of whom are recognized leaders in the area of open science.\u00a0 We have trained thousands of researchers in technical skills (such as Python & R) and conceptual skills (such as data management and working openly).\u00a0 We’ve provided a collaborative platform<\/a> for development of 39 open source projects.\u00a0 Our annual Global Sprint<\/a> brings in hundreds of participants from all over the globe.\u00a0 There are over 40 study groups around the world<\/a> with community members leading hundreds of events in their local communities and regularly developing new curriculum.<\/p>\n

We continue to push against the closed culture in research to strengthen the ecosystem supporting innovation, efficiency and reproducibility in science, and are happy to have continuing support from the Sloan Foundation, one of the leading funders in the open research and technology space.<\/p>\n

Over the course of the next two years, we will:<\/p>\n