[open-science] This week's community call: OpenSNP, software discovery, Mozilla Fellows (Oct. 8, 11ET)

[Kaitlin Thaney]

Hi all,

Our next community call
<https://etherpad-mozilla.org/sciencelab-calls-oct8-2015> will take place
this *Thursday, October 8*. The call is open to the public and will start
at *11:00 am ET*. Call in details can be found on the call etherpad
<https://etherpad-mozilla.org/sciencelab-calls-oct8-2015> (where you can
also find notes and the agenda) and on the wiki
<https://wiki.mozilla.org/ScienceLab/Calls>. (If you have trouble with the
toll-free number, try one of the numbers at the bottom of this post.)

The Science Lab meeting is our community call
<https://wiki.mozilla.org/ScienceLab/Calls>, taking place each month,
highlighting recent developments and work of the community relevant to
science and the web. Join us to hear more about current projects, find out
how you can get involved, and hear from others about their work in and
around open research.

The Mozilla Festival <https://2015.mozillafestival.org/>, our annual
celebration of innovation and the web, is just over a month away. We’re
back in London this year from November 6-8, and will be leading a science
track chock full of interesting projects to get involved with, trainings
and a project accelerator. (Tickets still available here.
<https://2015.mozillafestival.org/tickets>)

On this month’s call, we’ll hear from some of this year’s session leads and
mentors, including Bastian Greshake <https://twitter.com/gedankenstuecke>
from OpenSNP <http://opensnp.org>, a platform to share your genetic
information, as well as Matt Mokary and Stefan Neamtu from the Rochester
Institute of Technology <http://rit.edu>, who are working on an open source
web dashboard <http://www.se.rit.edu/%7Eopensd/> capable of searching
multiple code hosting services, such as Zenodo <http://zenodo.org>, figshare
<http://figshare.com>, and GitHub <http://github.com>, for the benefit of
the research community. The goal of this dashboard
<https://github.com/mozillascience/software-discovery-dashboard> is to
demonstrate the usefulness of a new metadata standard by utilizing it for
easy and effective software discovery and analysis. (And it’s their senior
project!)

Lastly, we’ll meet our 2015 Mozilla Fellows
<https://www.mozillascience.org/announcing-our-2015-mozilla-fellows-for-science>,
just announced this week. Come learn more about Joey
<http://twitter.com/leejoeyk>, Christie <http://twitter.com/cbahlai>, Jason
<http://twitter.com/jasonbobe> and Richard <http://twitter.com/blahah404>,
who’ll also be at this year’s Festival.

Have an update, blog post or event you’d like to share relevant to open
science? Add it to the etherpad
<https://etherpad-mozilla.org/sciencelab-calls-oct8-2015> (see ‘Non Verbal
Updates’, line ~110). It’s a great way to share what you’re working on
and/or interested in with the community. Don’t be shy. Have a look at last
month’s notes <https://etherpad-mozilla.org/sciencelab-calls-sep10-2015>
for an idea of what others contributed to the conversation.

Mark your calendars, tune in and help us spread the word – everyone is
welcome. For call-in details and links to the etherpad
<https://etherpad-mozilla.org/sciencelab-calls-oct8-2015>, visit our wiki
page <https://wiki.mozilla.org/ScienceLab/Calls>. We hope you’ll join us.
--
Kaitlin Thaney
Director, Mozilla Science Lab
@kaythaney ; @MozillaScience
skype / IRC: kaythaney
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