Balconnect

[adelsarvary]

Project Lead: @adelsarvary

Mentor: @EKaroune

Welcome to OLS-4! 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 13 September 2021): 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.

Before Week 2 (week starting 20 September 2021): Cohort Call (Welcome to Open Life Science!)

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube

• Create an issue on the OLS-4 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.

Before Week 3 (week starting 27 September 2021): 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

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.

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-4 Syllabus for more detailed weekly notes and assignments past week 4.

Week 6

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube

Week 7

• Meet mentor

Week 8

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube

Week 9

• Meet mentor

Week 10

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube

Week 11

• Meet mentor

Week 12

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube

Week 13

• Meet mentor

Week 14

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube

Week 15

• Meet mentor

[EKaroune]

Great job opening this issue for your project! 😄

[adelsarvary]

Vision Statement (W2)

I’m working with ecologists, other natural and data scientists to build communities of outdoor ornamental plant owners in metropolitan areas who gather data and experiences about the plants they raise, so the members of these communities can develop a sense of connection to their local natural ecosystems, learn from each other about how to sustain the balance of these ecosystem, creating more liveable cities.

Using only the 1000 most common words by UP-GOER5 text editor:
A group of people saving the world by listening to it, sharing stories about it, putting the stories into order, and helping others decide what to grow in their homes - so our world will not only become prettier but a better place to live as well.

[adelsarvary]

Open Canvas (W3)

[Elisa-on-GitHub]

Vision Statement (W2)

I’m working with ecologists, other natural and data scientists to build communities of outdoor ornamental plant owners in metropolitan areas who gather data and experiences about the plants they raise, so the members of these communities can develop a sense of connection to their local natural ecosystems, learn from each other about how to sustain the balance of these ecosystem, creating more liveable cities.

I love this idea, it also includes Citizen Science, which I think is very cool. What's important is: will you provide templates in which the plant owners can enter their data, so that all data look similar and everyone can understand them?
Would love to learn more!

[Elisa-on-GitHub]

Open Canvas (W3)

This looks very good - I'm just a little bit confused about the contributors: aren't the plant owners also contributors and users? As in: don't they contribute their plant data to the platform, as well?

[adelsarvary]

Vision Statement (W2)
I’m working with ecologists, other natural and data scientists to build communities of outdoor ornamental plant owners in metropolitan areas who gather data and experiences about the plants they raise, so the members of these communities can develop a sense of connection to their local natural ecosystems, learn from each other about how to sustain the balance of these ecosystem, creating more liveable cities.

I love this idea, it also includes Citizen Science, which I think is very cool. What's important is: will you provide templates in which the plant owners can enter their data, so that all data look similar and everyone can understand them? Would love to learn more!

Thanks so much for your feedback, Elisa! Yes, exactly, there will be a template for the data collection, like filling out forms e.g. for each plant, which then all feed into a database that can be enriched with other datasets to generate new information.

[adelsarvary]

Open Canvas (W3)

This looks very good - I'm just a little bit confused about the contributors: aren't the plant owners also contributors and users? As in: don't they contribute their plant data to the platform, as well?

Thank you so much for pointing that out, Elisa, I now clarified it in the Canvas! In my head, I included them in the group of participants in case of contributors, and in the group of plant enthusiasts in case of users - but you're right, the need to be spelled out, to make things clear! I loved your comments, thanks again!

[adelsarvary]

Balconnect repository

[EKaroune]

I'm sharing my OLS2 repo with you so you can see the different parts that I included: Open Science in Phytolith Research

I also looked at other repos for ideas of README's such as STEM role models and standard readme's. There are lots of examples out there so good to have a look around and see which ones you like.

[Lisanna]

Hi @adelsarvary, what an interesting project!
I'm here to share some feedback about your canvas.
I think the problem is well defined and on point. What is not clear to me is the "size" of your project: are you planning to run it in a specific local community? If so, does it have specific problems associated, or maybe specific user/contributor channels? I also think that you could estimate the achievements (measured with the key metrics) and therefore monitor your project results only if you relate that to a specific community type and size.

[adelsarvary]

Hi @adelsarvary, what an interesting project! I'm here to share some feedback about your canvas. I think the problem is well defined and on point. What is not clear to me is the "size" of your project: are you planning to run it in a specific local community? If so, does it have specific problems associated, or maybe specific user/contributor channels? I also think that you could estimate the achievements (measured with the key metrics) and therefore monitor your project results only if you relate that to a specific community type and size.

Thank you so much, @Lisanna, very useful feedback! About the size, I am designing the project to be as easily scalable and distributable as possible, so it could work with a community of just a building block with a city, but also with the whole city itself. Very good question about the channels and the results, this is an area I am still exploring/prototyping. Thank you so much for your time & contribution with these super questions!

[adelsarvary]

Roadmap

[adelsarvary]

README.md