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Starting Research: Looking at Building A Successful Non-Technical Open * Community

belkinsa — Mon, 14 Sep 2015 14:41:49 +0000

After a bunch of unsuccessful attempts of trying to get some sort of project going within a Open Science community, I decided to start research on how to build a successful non-technical Open * community. I’m aware that could be just be a matter of time commitment but I still think it be worth it to learn how to build one.

I started a public project on the Open Science Framework. Most of my work done (so far) is in the wiki of the Project. Right now, this plan is the one that I will follow. At the moment, it looks like that I will be focusing on the things that I learned/used/experienced from the Ubuntu Community, but it may expend into other topics.

I’m also planning to use Open Undergrad Research Foundation (OpenURF) to set up a experiment to see which tools are needed and how to use them. But that will be later as the sever guy haven’t e-mail me back.

I will be using my blog for updates.

Afterthought: I really think it may be just be a matter of time commitment or not enough drivers. If that is the case, then I will start new research on how to fix that, if possible.

Introducing “The Sense of Openness”

belkinsa — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 21:56:41 +0000

As I said in this post, I renamed “The Ubuntu Sense”, to (drum roll please) to “The Sense of Openness”. I started with voluteering in the Ubuntu in July 2013 and within six months, I recieved my Ubuntu Memebership. But I started to extend invoulment into Open Science, since I’m a biologist. I noticed that I started to post/talk about non-Ubuntu things on my everything-Ubuntu-related blog and decided to open up a “new” (I imported my old one) one that emcompasses everything that is Open * related. Also, I’m keeping the “sense” theme.

To accomplish this, before exporting the old content from the old blog, I organized the categories into six main ones (that may change, as I have some that I’m not sure of) and within the categories, I have sub-categories that relate to the groups that I’m in (Ubuntu Women in Ubuntu and Center of Open Science in Open Science are two examples). This will allow me to only use categories for RSS feeds for the Planets in order to stay on topic.

Also, I broke down my “About” page into three pages, one that explains who I am, one for FOSS, and one for Open Science. These pages will explain what the topic is, what groups that I am in, and what roles, that I take up, in those groups are. These pages will act like my “resume” because I want to show the world what I have done within the communities and my skills, as it’s scattered around the web.

I want to thank Rafael Laguna for creating me the logos (wordless and with words) below:

Center for Open Science Workshop at University of Cincinnati

Svetlana Belkin — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 19:39:09 +0000

The main library of university that I go to, University of Cincinnati, hosted a workshop from Center for Open Science on March 12th. The workshop was over reproducible research practices and how can Open Science help it- mainly with the Center of Open Science’s framework. Since I’m a (clueless) biology undergrad with barely any research experience, I learned a lot from it and new things, again mainly with their framework.

I heard of the Center and their framework about a year ago and I had no clue of how to test it or even use it for something. But after this workshop, I think I may have an idea for a personal or a Ubuntu Scientists (or another Open Science group) project to work on improving/teaching documentation for research or another aspect/step of the process. I also want to figure out how to do outreach also.

Mozilla Science Lab Forums Now Open

Svetlana Belkin — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 22:08:14 +0000

I am pleased to announce that the Mozilla Science Lab now has a forum that anyone can use. Anyone can introduce themselves in this topic or the category.