The Ersilia Model Hub: encouraging deployment of computer-based research tools for non-expert usage

[GemmaTuron]

Project Lead: @GemmaTuron

Mentor: @fpsom

Welcome to OLS-5! This issue will be used to track your project and progress during the program. Please use this checklist over the next few weeks as you start Open Life Science program 🎉.

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Week 1 (week starting 28 February 2022): Meet your mentor!

• Meet mentor for 30 minutes
• Create an account on GitHub
• Check if you have access to the HackMD notes set up for your meetings with your mentor
• Prepare to meet your mentor(s) by completing a short homework provided in your shared notes
• Complete your own copy of the open leadership self-assessment and share it to your mentor
  If you're a group, each teammate should complete this assessment individually. This is here to help you set your own personal goals during the program. No need to share your results, but be ready to share your thoughts with your mentor.
• Make sure you know when and how you'll be meeting with your mentor.

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Before Week 2 (week starting 7 March 2022): Cohort Call (Welcome to Open Life Science!)

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube
• Create an issue on the OLS-5 GitHub repository for your OLS work and share the link to your mentor.
• Draft a brief vision statement using your goals
  This lesson from the Open Leadership Training Series (OLTS) might be helpful
• Leave a comment on this issue with your draft vision statement & be ready to share this on the call
• Check the Syllabus for notes and connection info for all the cohort calls.

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Before Week 3 (week starting 14 March 2022): Meet your mentor!

• Meet mentor
• Look up two other projects and comment on their issues with feedback on their vision statement
• Complete this compare and contrast assignment about current and desired community interactions and value exchanges
• Complete your Open Canvas (instructions, canvas)
• Share a link to your Open Canvas in your GitHub issue
• Start your Roadmap
• Comment on your issue with your draft Roadmap
• Suggest a cohort name at the bottom of the shared notes and vote on your favorite with a +1

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Before Week 4: Cohort Call (Tooling and roadmapping for Open projects)

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube
• Look up two other projects and comment on their issues with feedback on their open canvas.

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Week 5 and later

• Meet mentor
• Create a GitHub repository for your project
• Add the link to your repository in your issue
• Use your canvas to start writing a README.md file, or landing page, for your project
• Link to your README in a comment on this issue
• Add an open license to your repository as a file called LICENSE.md
• Add a Code of Conduct to your repository as a file called CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
• Invite new contributors to into your work!

This issue is here to help you keep track of work as you start Open Life Science program. Please refer to the OLS-5 Syllabus for more detailed weekly notes and assignments past week 4.

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Week 6

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube

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Week 7

• Meet mentor

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Week 8

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube

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Week 9

• Meet mentor

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Week 10

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube

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Week 11

• Meet mentor

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Week 12

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube

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Week 13

• Meet mentor

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Week 14

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube

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Week 15

• Meet mentor

[GemmaTuron]

The main repository of the Ersilia Model Hub is this one. The README file contains a bunch of information about the project, apologies if its not organized as best as it could. I aim to work on this during the OLS program.
The Vision of the project:
We are working with researchers worldwide to build an Open Source platform of AI/ML models for neglected disease research to empower scientists in LMICs to tackle the health needs of relevance to their region and gain access and expertise in computational science.

[GemmaTuron]

The Open Canvas: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Hdmoq4YsDzjjYGFGWMk-xqCOZ7hLQKwaJ1R4e5DT2u0/edit?usp=sharing

[GemmaTuron]

I have started our Project Roadmap here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VBvM1ByPY9bQ2cZ7_JkoAW5Is9MPDELFAF6a9KREge8/edit?usp=sharing

[GemmaTuron]

The main repository for this project is this one: https://github.com/ersilia-os/ersilia
On the master branch you can find the following:

• README file: detailing the project and basic usage instructions
• LICENSE: GPL v3
• CODE_OF_CONDUCT: adapted from the Contributor Covenant

We currently have a lot of Outreachy applicants contributing to the project. We did not expect so many applicants, and they need to make small contributions during the whole month. To manage them we have decided to copy the OLS structure of each applicant starting a new issue with a template where they can check the work they have done so far, thanks for the inspiration!