Onboarding for the FOSDEM Open Research Room

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History

The Open Research devroom addresses FLOSS developers in a broad community concerned with research production and curation: scientists, engineers, journalists, archivists, curators, artists and activists. The tools and technologies targeted are typically creating, handling or sharing knowledge artifacts that go beyond traditional academic outputs to data, collections, web contents, methods, algorithms, artworks and more. This devroom provides a place and time to discuss the issues related to the creation and usage of open research technologies. The ambition is to foster multidisciplinary discussions between designers, developers and users, bridging multiple knowledge-based communities together, and with the broader FLOSS community.

The FOSDEM Open Research room has been organising since 2015, started by Mathieu Jacomy and Paul Girard. [Maybe add more context and history here?]

Timeline

The organising of the FOSDEM Open Research Devroom tends to run cyclically. Every year, organisers of the devroom need to apply to host the devroom. The ORD has been granted a full-day room since 2022, and has organised a parallel online event since 2023.

• September: Previous organisers receive information about open call
• Early October: Review devroom proposal and submit to run
• Late October: Review call for proposals and website
• Early November: Open call for submissions
• November - February: weekly meeting with organising team
• February: FOSDEM Open Research Devroom (in-person) and FOSDEM Open Research (online)

Roles

Getting involved with the devroom can look like many different kinds of roles for before, during, and after the conference.

• Application reviewers:
• Event organisers (in-person and online):
• Online facilitators:
• In-person facilitators: See Checklists for different roles in devroom team #29

Responsibilities