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This is the GitHub README
This page is a hub to give you some information about the Community and our Open Science Ambassadors. Jump straight to one of the sections below, or scroll down to find out more.
- What are we doing? (And why?)
- Who are we?
- What do we need?
- How can you get involved?
- Get in touch
- Find out more
We are a community built from around 250 members of the University of Oxford Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (WIN). Our community exists to support open and inclusive researchers, to develop the tools, policies, governance and structures we would like in place to support us in practicing open science.
We area committed to supporting transparent and reproducible research practices within WIN, to improve the efficiency and accuracy of our research, and contribute to an equitable, diverse and inclusive research environment.
Funders and the Management Board of WIN have identified the value of open science and invested in computational infrastructure to support researchers in sharing their data, data acquisition methodology, experimental tools and analysis code, in an open, transparent and reproducible manner.
As these stages near completion, we are entering the second phase of work to build awareness, provide training and increase uptake in the use of this infrastructure. The problem is that there are no centralised resources, communication structures or identified community strategies in place to support researchers in using this new infrastructure.
The WIN Open Neuroimaging Community will address the above problems by working together to: (1) Develop tools, policies and governance recommendations to promote open research practices; (2) Identify our own barriers to working open and devising strategies to remove these barriers for ourselves and others; (3) Build a community of researchers with the expertise and confidence to promote open research practices in our own labs and to wider audiences.
We intend to implement these solutions through regular co-working "hacks". These hacks will be full day events where we will discuss, write and build together. A high value outcome of these hacks will be a sense of community among the researchers who attend. All material created during the hack will be openly shared on this repository. We will also generate materials and guidance about how we have created the hacks, so these events are themselves reproducible.
Alongside the hacks, we will develop the WIN Open Ambassadors program, where motivated individuals will be supported in sharing knowledge and sign posting their peers around open research practices and how they are implemented at WIN. The Ambassadors will be recognised for the value of their contribution, and invited to shape the policies, incentives, guiding principles and reward systems which will be devised to promote uptake of open research practices at WIN.
We are building our resources and documenting our growth using this version controlled git repository, rendered into an accessible "book" format. Using git makes it easy to review and accept contributions and flexibly update with a full history of activity. It also provides a starting point for researchers who are unfamiliar with git to practice contributing to a repository and gain confidence using the git process. This is an essential skill in open and reproducible research, an excellent skill to have on your CV, and one which will be vital to using some parts of the WIN Open Infrastructure. We are therefore pleased to offer all our contributors training and support in git throughout their engagement with the project. You will find training and linked resources for using git in our contributing guide.
Cass is a postdoctoral researcher with 10 years of neuroimaging (fMRI) research. She was Co-Chair of the Open Science Room 2020, and has been both a participant and speaker at the Berlin-Oxford Open Science Summer School, an invited speaker at Open MR Benelux and is a Fellow of Reproducible Research Oxford. Cass is an active contributor to a number of open community tools, including Open Research Calendar, the COBIDAS Checklist and The Turing Way
Email: Cassandra.GoudVanPraag@psych.ox.ac.uk
GitHub: @cassgvp
Twitter: @cassgvp
This community feeds directly into the WIN Open Neuroimaging Project and its working groups listed below along with their leads.
- Open Data (Clare Mackay)
- Open Tools (Mark Jenkinson)
- Open Protocols (Stuart Clare)
- Open Paradigms (Laurence Hunt)
You can find out more about the WIN Open Neuroimaging Project by joining this mailing list
Your name and image here!
Ambassadors probably get an additional bio, like https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/the-turing-way/blob/master/contributors.md. with picture and links. Think about how it is going to grow and be managable code to maintain. Might like to reuse bits from OSR speakers pages
Your name and image here!
Using the 'all contributors' tool and design.
You! We need people to join the community! If you would like to learn more about open research, become an Ambassador or join one of our hacks, please join the WIN Open Neuroimaging Project mailing list, and stay tuned for further announcements. We will be putting out a call in the near future, with an official invitation to the community, more information about what will be involved and what is in it for you!
Please note that it's very important to us that we maintain a positive and supportive environment for everyone who wants to participate. When you join us we ask that you follow our code of conduct in all interactions both on and offline.
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If you want to report a problem or suggest an enhancement we'd love for you to ... open an issue at the project this GitHub repository because then we can get right on it. But you can also contact ...
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