White papers to capture research insights from the “AI for Science and Government” research programme

[RaoOfPhysics]

Project Lead: @RaoOfPhysics

Mentor: @yochannah

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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 [Done post-meeting]
• 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

[RaoOfPhysics]

Vision:

Produce a series of community-written white papers that not only showcase the research insights of the Turing’s “AI for Science and Government” (ASG) programme but also embed practices of openness and reproducibility in the authoring process that engages the wider ASG community.

[EKaroune]

Looking great @RaoOfPhysics - maybe you need to spell out ASG the first time in your vision statement as no one outside turing will know what that is?

[RaoOfPhysics]

Good shout, @EKaroune!

[nea-bridget]

Very interesting, Achintya! I'm working on a policy briefing in the national data skills space and am very interested in seeing how you navigate the authoring process in an open and reproducible manner - looking forward to learning from you :)

[Ismael-KG]

What an interesting project! @RaoOfPhysics, I just wonder if "the authoring process that engages the wider ASG community" can be at all spelled out? I also wonder if the order is the other way round, with "developing open authoring practices" first and then publishing white papers that embed those practices. Just a thought! It all sounds great!

[RaoOfPhysics]

Thanks, @nea-bridget! Would love to speak with you about your work and exchange experiences. I’m sure I have a lot to learn from you.

[RaoOfPhysics]

That’s an excellent way to look at it, @Ismael-KG! Thanks for the suggestion; I think I’ll re-work the vision statement as I think that -- while the two will go hand in hand -- there’s merit in mentioning the development of the open authoring practices first.