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Many journals require that scientific / research code to be open source in order to be published, but simply sharing source code alone isn’t usually enough to draw in new users and contributors. This session will teach researchers and coders the basics of how to make their open source scientific code repositories inclusive and welcoming to contributors. Experienced community managers are also welcome to attend and help pass their knowledge on to others. This session will be run by the Open Life Science team, who collectively have experience working openly, mentoring, and training others in open practice.

Prerequisites

• An interest in open science
• A laptop

Updated information

Assignment before this event: (should take 20-30 minutes)
1. Project vision: Reflect on your current work.

• Take personal notes regarding your favorite open project (that you either lead or work on) by answering the following questions:
  • The problem the project is trying to solve.
  • How you think openness and open leadership will help solve it.
  • How meeting personal goals will help you and help solve the problem.
  • How meeting your cultural goals for your community, organization, or project * will help solve the problem.

2. Implicit bias and inclusion: Please do the Implicit Bias Quiz

• Go to https://implicit.harvard.edu to complete the ‘Gender - Career’ or ‘Gender - Science’ quiz (10 minutes). You can ‘continue as a guest’ by choosing your country,
• Reflect on these questions when you’ve finished the implicit association test:
  • What does inclusion mean to you?
  • Did your results of the implicit association test surprise you?

Please bring your notes from these assignments to the workshop so that you can make the best of your learning experience and add thoughtfully to the group discussions.
If you have any questions that we can help you with, please contact us by emailing team@openlifesci.org.