We had a survey to ask the community on which Open Science topics we should focus on first (see Topic_survey).
The first survey results from the 3rd of June suggested the topics to look at are
- Open Data (21 votes)
- Incentives for Open Science (16 votes)
- Open Source (15 votes)
- Open Licenses (14 votes)
As all topics are related to the research cycle in science, it was decided that a chapter on the research cycle should be added that will serve as a general introduction leading over all the topics (with a research cycle diagram). This introductory chapter will also cover incentives for Open Science from the researcher's perspective.
- What are the benefits for me if I practice Open Science?
- pros and cons of Open Science ("scooping" ...) Other discussions of incentives will not be included yet as they will require adding additional stakeholder personas (decisionmaker, like politicians/funding agencies) which is outside of the scope of this project for now.
The Open Source topic discussion led to the decision that as this topic is of interest to a more specialised audience. Thus, Open Access, a topic of general interest, will be covered first.
The topics that will be worked on hence are:
- the research cycle (incl. diagram)
- Open Data
- Open Access
- Open Licenses
To facilitate the work, a markdown template will be created that can be easily exported into PDF handouts etc. for teaching.
A name change to "Open Science Carpentry" has been discussed and a mail explaining this consideration has been sent to the Software Carpentry mailing list. The final email text is exported from the etherpad to the file OpenScience101MailSoftwareCarpentry.txt.
The final survey results from the 7th of June are the following:
