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Submission name: Preprint author/institution/citation network database
Contact lead: @jpolka
Issue area: #OpenAccess, #OpenResearch
Region: #Global
Issue Type: #Project
Types of Support Needed: #Coding
We are looking to help researchers identify who among their colleagues is posting preprints to make the practice more visible and to connect them with those who have practice experience to share.
During the do-a-thon, we are specifically looking to create a database of preprint authors & their institutions (also could be done via keyword)
// We're still working on this section!
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The aim is to continue work on a crowdsourced document that aims to agree a broad, international strategy for the implementation of open science that meets the needs of different nations and regions but works globally. The document is already in progress, and all are welcome to contribute: https://goo.gl/6XPMCW
It'd be great to hear ideas - the doc is completely open!
Another element we think will complement this initiative is to create a list of all the organisations working in this area, their mission, geographical focus, and what particular parts of the puzzle they fill (whether technological, social etc). We think mapping initiatives in this way might show how organisations could work together better to achieve a cohesive strategy. Ideas for that also welcome!
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IN_VISIBLE project aims to create an openly licensed resource on social conduct guideline and safety representatives to protect the integrity of trans* and gender non conforming scholars and students.
Creating a network of collaborators and stakeholders.
Fundraising and Sponsors
#Advocacy_and_Policy, #Communications, #Community_GrassrootsOrganizing, #Fundraising.
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Submission name: Open Humans
Contact lead: [email protected], @gedankenstuecke on Twitter and GitHub
Issue area: #OpenData, #OpenResearch
Region: #Global
Issue Type: #Project
Types of Support Needed: #Coding, #Communications, #Fundraising
Project Website: https://www.openhumans.org/
Open Humans enables participatory science by putting individuals in control over how their data can be used by traditional scientists and citizen scientists alike. Individuals can register on Open Humans, connect different data sources and then join projects and studies with which they want to share these data. One of the best parts: Everyone can start their own project on the platform! You have an idea for a great project that should totally be on Open Humans? We offer small grants of up to $5,000 to help you implement those ideas!
The Open Humans team has a couple of things we have on our list for the do-a-thon! One of the big things that's been on our radar for a while is finishing the bridge between openSNP and Open Humans. But there's also a good number of "smaller" issues to be fixed!
Besides this we want to hold Open Office Hours. If you want to learn more about Open Humans, talk about your new project ideas, or even need some help in drafting a proposal for the project grants, you can talk to us all day long.
If you feel that any of the code related issues are something where you can make a difference, please be in touch with us and get the coding going! We won't be physically at OpenCon this year. Thus the best way to be in touch with us is via or Slack, which everyone is more than invited to join! Join us there in #opencon-doathon to talk code or project ideas!
As our team is based in multiple time zones you'll have a chance to interact with us during European and Californian hours! Our primary language is English, but we can accommodate some German and potentially further languages.
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OpenCon this year will include workshops focused on advancing regional-specific issues in Open Research and Open Education. In one of these workshops we’re proposing and going to be working through How might we raise awareness of the values we want to see underlying openness?
Although there's an important and long-term tradition of Open Access, Data, Research and Education initiatives in Latin America, do we all share the same values and principles underlying openness? How do we face the 'Open washing' in the region -e.g. Commercial publishers that start 'selling' openness-? Can we work on a way of making these values more visible, strong and context appropriate?
We’re interested in this because we think there's a risk of losing openness due to the recent 'open washing' discourse in the region.
During the workshop (as well as before—and after!) we invite anyone to help tackle this challenge. You don’t need to be part of the workshop — or conference to share your thoughts and ideas! We’ll keep this issue up to date with anything we do or learn.
Let's start the discussion here!
Anyone can contribute to these efforts. The place to start in helping us more deeply understand the challenge from more angles. We invite you to jump in the comments section and share any thoughts. Before the workshop, we’ll use that to help make sure our theme has the right emphasis and help plan the workshop.
For those not in the room, subscribe to this issue. We’ll post our outputs and notes here immediately after every session!
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Submission name: Engineering: The Book
Contact lead: Twitter: @devinberg Email: [email protected]
Issue area: #OpenEducation
Region: #NorthernAmerica
Issue Type: #Project
Types of Support Needed: #Community_GrassrootsOrganizing, #Research
Project Website: https://github.com/OpenEngr/engineering-the-book
In most fields of higher education you can find textbooks with titles such as "Biology" or "Statistics". However, the offerings in engineering are not as widespread. The goal for this project is to explore the creation of a comprehensive engineering text that provides the content necessary for an introduction to engineering while still being appropriate for the broad diversity of engineering fields.
Identify the best authoring method (Gitbook, Github markdown, Jupyter Notebooks); Identify topic areas that should be included in an introductory engineering textbook (what topic areas are most appropriate for usefulness and broad application); Identify content sources to begin populating the book (what OA content may already exist that could be used here?).
Those looking to contribute can do so through the Issues page on the Github repo for the book. Issues will be setup for discussion around each of the topics mentioned above. Contributors are also welcome to open new issues if they have a different topic they feel warrants discussion.
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Without hardware, there is no science. From Hooke’s microscope to the Hubble telescope, instruments are modern science’s platforms for producing knowledge (Liboiron, 2017).
Design and development of technology continues to take place in the (cis) male-dominated environments of engineering companies and university. Producing technology is often associated with being masculine and handed over to female-identified makers to act upon and to assimilate technology (Wuschitz, 2017) .
This is bias reflected in maker-communities (Holbert, 2016; Media, 2015; Moilanen, 2012), creating environments where underrepresented groups such as women,* trans* people or persons of colour do not feel welcome.
Adding to the problem is the fact that many female-identified technologists devalue their own expertise and qualifications (Newman et al., 2016). They also tend to demure their skills in applications, which often also results in lower salaries for equal labour (National Science Board, 2016).
It has often been mentioned in recent years how a Western-centric, post-colonial perspective fails to recognize innovation in engineering solutions that take place in developing countries. However, we have identified similar problems in Western-based hacker-spaces (FabLabs) (Wuschitz, 2017) .
The social function of the commons was especially important for women, who, having less title to land and less social power, were more dependent on them for their subsistence, autonomy, and sociality (Silvia Federici, 2004).
BODIES OF KNOWLEDGE* aim to demonstrate how underrepresented groups such as women* trans* and/or people of colour can take a much broader scope in the development chain, from design to manufacturing and the mainstream adoption of technologies.
Open Source Technology and Art Based Research is at the root of our philosophy, it enables us to share and collaborate without restrictions. This project aims to create a feminist maker space from which to evolve as people and as community.
There is an impediment in recognition of the contribution of women* and gender non binary to technology. We want to create and share infrastructure; Mutual self-help through sharing and learning.
*BODIES OF KNOWLEDGE is a term coined by Njideka Stephanie Iroh and Marissa Lôbo in “Bodies of Knowledge – Multiplying Marginalised Subjectivities of Utopia through Art and Storytelling”
Collaborators for administration, communication, preparing proposals, workshops/ residences organizers, operatives, event planners.
Developing a financial strategy to open a physical space for feminist makers.
Setting up a WISH LIST of equipment donations, resources and infrastructure needs.
Fundraising and Sponsors
Call out Trans* people of color
Sharing experience setting up, administrating and running a Lab.
Event planing and community organizing
#Coding, #Community_GrassrootsOrganizing, #EventPlanning, #Fundraising, #Research
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OpenCon this year will include workshops focused on advancing region-specific issues in Open Research and Open Education. In one of these workshops we’re proposing and going to be working through “How might we navigate and change power structures within academia to support greater openness”.
We’re interested in this because power structures within the research and education ecosystems shape the incentives that drive early career practitioners toward, and away from, openness and other practices. By mapping these power relationships, we’ll be able to identify potential areas that could be most productively addressed to create change.
During the workshop (as well as before—and after!) we invite anyone to help tackle this challenge. You don’t need to be part of the workshop — or conference to share your thoughts and ideas! We’ll keep this issue up to date with anything we do or learn.
Anyone can contribute to these efforts. The place to start in helping us more deeply understand the challenge from more angles. We’ve started the effort in this Google Document, and we invite you to jump in and share any thoughts. Before the workshop, we’ll use that document to help make sure our theme has the right emphasis and help plan the workshop.
For those not in the room, subscribe to this issue. We’ll post our outputs and notes here immediately after every session!
If you have an idea or comment to share that isn’t in the problem refinement exercise, and that you think won’t be covered in the workshop, we’d love to hear from you in the Github comments below.
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Submission name: FlourishOA
Contact lead: [email protected] or @ashleydfarley
Issue area: #OpenAccess, #OpenData, #OpenResearch
Region: #NorthernAmerica
Issue Type: #Project
Types of Support Needed: #Advocacy_and_Policy, #Coding, #Communications, #Community_GrassrootsOrganizing, #Research
Project Website: www.flourishoa.org or GitHub https://github.com/FlourishOA/FlourishOA
Open Access (OA) publications allow for anyone to access research information free of charge. It is difficult for researchers to discover which OA publications exist, and the price to publish. We designed and implemented a data-driven web app and API enabling researchers to discover relevant and reputable OA publications to maximize publishing impact. We aggregated price information and journal impact data. Our goal is to provide the OA community with the tools they need to separate legitimate OA publications from unethical publishers. We believe transparency in the market will produce downward price pressure, further lowering economic barriers to publishing.
There is also a great opportunity to leverage this data to help authors discern potential predatory publishers. There needs to be an objective way to use data to help authors avoid predatory publishing.
Several aspects that would be great to cover:
-Ideas for improved web design
-Marketing & partnership ideas to help up usage
-Ideate how to use this data to be an objective way to spot predatory publishers
-Ideate how best to crowdsource data to ensure the database is updated regularly
-A way to add APC waiver information
Discussion here would be fantastic. I have limited access to the bad end of the website, however the API and dataset are available. I can update the text on the website.
Learning who might be interested in keeping this project alive (we've been searching for funding) would be great to meet with (virtually or not) and make those connections.
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I am working to create more OER in nursing with students - making it one assignment option. To make their experience better I am looking for feedback.
I am a teacher who has embraced the principles of OER long before hearing about it in August. As I engage in my first true OER assignment for students I wanted to seek feedback from others on my assignment instructions. Students have the option of working on OER or completing a different assignment inside their learning management system. During the process I will be doing a self-study of my experience as described under the "research" tab.
#Feedback #Research
I am new to GitHub, but we can discuss here. Twitter also works. Please feel free to comment right on the website. It would be nice to show students how openness with the assignment instructions influenced them.
I only speak English fluently. The website will be used in January.
This is a remote project (but I wish I was there).
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Submission name: CIAT Dataverse
Contact lead: [email protected]
Issue area: #OpenAccess, #OpenData, #OpenResearch
Region: #Africa
Issue Type: #Project
Types of Support Needed: #Research
Project Website: data.ciat.cgiar.org
This is a CIAT data management project that is looking to add value to open data that has been uploaded to their open dataverse. In other words, we are looking to create or generate data products out of the data already submitted for open access. We believe more scientist researcher (both in and out of CIAT) will be willing to submit their data for open access in various repositories once they see data projects or outputs that have been generated out of their open data. We believe this discussion will help other data managers brainstorm on the unlimited possibilities and power that lies in open data that is generated and availed daily through various researchers across the globe.
We need support from you. Just tell a brief summary of what data products or uses have been most impactful from open data at your organisation. Secondly, it would be good to here from you, how you get researchers in your organisations to willingly submit there data for open access?
Please contribute on this Google doc on the link below:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sGE2dw-fJ4EQyCYPr8ai32Z-Ty-sr7WXr6PoxH-WKU0/edit?usp=sharing
Or write to me on [email protected]
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Many researchers are willing to make their research OA but are not sure which versions of their scholarly articles they can deposit and sometimes end up violating their own journal copyright agreements without knowing .
The 2017 challenge was to find ways in which we can help researchers use already available tools that explain copyright policies (such as Sherpa/RoMEO) and b) find an easy way to explain the main differences between a pre-print/post-print and publisher's version of the same document so that they are easy identifiable. All of this while promoting openness through self-archiving.
Ever since this challenge was submitted in OpenCon 2017, we've tried to address the problem as part of our efforts to increase self-archiving and promote green OA at the Open Access Button.
We've created two community resources to help address the issues:
Article Version Explainer:Pre-prints, post-prints, and publisher's PDF explained
The Open Access Button request system contacts authors and helps them archive an Open Access copy of their articles, but in our day to day work, we've seen first hand how authors struggle to find the right copy to deposit, and we know from collaborations with librarians and the repository community we are not alone. As an effort to address these issues, we've created the "Article Version Explainer" a guide that explains the key differences between all article versions, tells authors how to find them and where they can share them online with simple explanations and images for them to use as reference. You can contribute to the guide here.
Direct2aam: How tos helping authors find AAMs
Direct2aam is a set of Submission System Guides to help authors download their AAM from the Journal submission system they used when they published their research article. The guides, available for most major journals, provide simple to follow instructions for authors to obtain an Author Accepted Manuscript from their Journal Submission System, where the AAM is stored during the publishing process. These guides are soon to be launched, you can find a copy of our final release document here. and contribute to the guide here .
Both guides are intended to be a resource for the community and we'd appreciate feedback and insight on their use. Our current next steps for the guides include refining their content, , adding images, supporting data on which journals use which submission systems and A/B testing success with the guides. We are also interested in hearing user experiences from institutional repository librarians or folks who are familiar with the topic and want to help us improve our tools. If you are interested in contributing to our efforts, just comment on this issue, leave your comments on the guides or email me at [email protected]
You can contribute by:
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The Data to Policy Project (D2P) is an initiative to connect student research across multiple disciplines through course-based assignments to meet a local community need which culminates into data-driven policy proposals to local governments and agencies. Beginning in the spring of 2018, D2P participants will explore issues in Denver policing; its policies, practices, and most importantly, its data. Using the Denver Open Data Catalogue and multiple curated data sources, professors and instructors will integrate assignments that help students frame questions and build actionable proposals that improve one or more aspects of Denver policing. Student teams will combine data science with theories and techniques from sociology, criminology, GIS, and public policy to form comprehensive and viable proposals. Teams will design and present their proposals in the form of a research poster at the D2P symposium, attended by local politicians, administrators, and law enforcement officers who could potentially support the project proposals through legislative processes or changes in practice.
First, we need help developing a strategy to continue to identify and solicit participation from students, faculty, staff, legislators, and community partners.
Secondly, we need help developing a system to identify the next most pressing and viable topic for the D2P to take on after policing.
Thirdly, how can we make this reproducible and scalable at other institutions?
Fourthly, are there better questions than the first three above to start with?
Let's talk and start compiling our ideas here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Etgg2jAOQIhEPziydYI60oaqKpEovaVF?usp=sharing
If you want to participate remotely in the group, we can open a video conference, chat function, or through the google doc. Contact me via email or twitter and we'll set it up!
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Conferences are essential for scientific exchange, the incubation of new ideas and the presentation of the latest results of cutting edge research. In some disciplines, presentation at key conferences and publication in their proceedings are even more important than publications in peer reviewed journals.
Many scholars face insurmountable barriers to attending these important conferences. While special provisions are often in place to allow students to participate, they usually do not exist for more senior scholars who cannot muster the financing needed to attend. This means that many scientists from low- and middle-income countries are de facto excluded from the events that define their fields.
This is not only unfair to those without financial means, but having these scholars at important meetings will also give us insights into a wider range of work, contexts and perspectives that will benefits us all.
How can we make conferences more Open and Diverse?
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Submission name: Translating Software and Data Carpentry open lessons into Spanish
Contact lead: @orchid00
Issue area: #OpenAccess, #OpenData, #OpenEducation, #OpenResearch
Region: #LatinAmerica_and_Caribbean
Issue Type: #Project
Types of Support Needed: #Coding, #Communications, #Community_GrassrootsOrganizing, #Research, #Translation
Project Website: https://github.com/Carpentries-ES
Any bilinguals (English-Spanish)? this is your cup of tea and you can help a great project!
I'm a volunteer at the Carpentries (Software and Data carpentry https://software-carpentry.org/ and http://datacarpentry.org/) our goal is to teach researchers basic programming skills to be able to do their research more efficiently. These two are non for profit organisations, which you are more than welcome to join. Recently, we had an open call https://software-carpentry.org/blog/2017/09/latin-am-lessons.html to grow our community in LatinAmerica. One of the goals is to translate and maintain versions of each lesson in Spanish! As an Open Access, Open Education and Open research project this also fits well with another project I am part of Ekpaplek (http://ekpapalek.com/) where I am a mentor for students in LatinAmerica who want to do research abroad. This is to show that many researchers in LatinAmerica will benefit from this lessons translated, and all your work will be mentioned as contributor.
You can help to
For this project, people should have fluent English and Spanish
We also need your motivation to learn, or if you are already a Git Master, we need you too!
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OpenCon this year will include workshops focused on advancing region-specific issues in Open Research and Open Education. In one of these workshops we’re proposing and going to be working through the question “How might we help academics/researchers in Europe make their next project more open?
We’re interested in this because researchers are often asked why certain aspects of their projects (data, code, access…) need to be open rather than being asked why something should not be open (e.g. for reasons of privacy). Rather than being asked “Why open?” we would like the default to be for researchers to critically address “Why not open?” We think we can move towards this if we can, as academics and researchers, consider how we can make our next project (more) open.
During the workshop (as well as before—and after!) we invite anyone to help tackle this challenge. You don’t need to be part of the workshop — or conference to share your thoughts and ideas!
If you will be with us in Berlin, here are the links to our sessions on Sched:
We’ll keep this issue up to date with anything we do or learn.
Anyone can contribute to these efforts. The place to start in helping us more deeply understand the challenge from more angles. We’ve started the effort in this Google Document, and we invite you to jump in and share any thoughts. Before the workshop, we’ll use that document to help make sure our theme has the right emphasis and help plan the workshop.
During the workshop, we’ll be following a plan that looks something like this. We’re still working on ironing out the final agenda details, but at the start of the session, we’ll confirm exactly what we’ll do and walk everyone through it.
For those not in the room, subscribe to this issue. We’ll post our outputs and notes here immediately after every session!
If you have an idea or comment to share that isn’t in the problem refinement exercise, and that you think won’t be covered in the workshop, we’d love to hear from you in the Github comments below.
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Submission Name: The Method
Contact Lead: April CS
External Site Link (optional - primarily for projects): https://themethodpodcast.com/
Region: #NorthernAmerica
Issue Area: #OpenResearch
Issue Type: #Project
The Method is an open source, peer reviewed podcast about the state of science. We are a team of scientists and science-lovers who want to improve the quality, inclusivity, and productivity of our conversations about science.
Just as an open source community can improve the quality of code, we are creating a platform for the scientific community to improve the quality of our conversations about what is working in science and what is not.
There are so many ways to contribute! Contribute your thoughts and experiences by submitting audio, transcribe audio interviews, or recommend someone to interview for a future episode. Learn more on our GitHub page: https://github.com/the-method/podcast.
For contributing audio content
For transcribing audio
For recommending someone to interview or review
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Recent research has shown that researchers in low- and middle income countries overwhelmingly rely on proprietary software, but they often do not have the means to acquire this software. Furthermore, the desired Research Software is highly field-specific and diverse.
On the other hand, they are hardly aware of the existence and possibilities of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) alternatives to proprietary Research Software.
As a result, a survey has shown that the lack of access to software significantly affects research content and networks. The lack of access to Research Software thus obstructs equal research opportunities and the reproducibility of research results.
How do we raise awareness of field-specific Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in low- and middle income countries? What are the right networks and strategies for communication and dissemination?
#Advocacy_and_Policy,
#Communications,
#Community_GrassrootsOrganizing_
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Basically, the challenge tries to explore how Open Science/Research can benefit the individual researcher in the humanities or social sciences.
Some links:
A related unconf session "Open Humanities & Social Sciences": https://opencon2017.sched.com/event/Cxkm/open-humanities-social-sciences
The notes:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_3zad45_j8kOY49_lCZzYsRHzW2fqIGbUFwcc4LDJ5M/edit?usp=sharing
Blog post describing the challenge:
https://www.authorea.com/users/106029/articles/207832-open-in-order-to-have-a-plan-b
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Submission name: Pastpin
Contact lead: @geopast
Issue area: #OpenData, #OpenEducation, #OpenResearch
Region: #Global
Issue Type: #Project
Types of Support Needed: #Research
Project Website: www.pastpin.com
Pastpin lets you suggest the where and when of 6,814,224 vintage images via the wonderful Flickr Commons. The goal is to make all the images searchable by where and when they were originally taken.
That's it!
This is a remote project and is based in Sydney, Australia time zone.
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Submission name: Open in the Life of a College Student
Contact lead: [email protected]
Issue area: #OpenAccess, #OpenData, #OpenEducation, #OpenResearch
Region: #NorthernAmerica
Issue Type: #Project
Types of Support Needed: #Communications, #GraphicDesign
Project Website: No website yet
This project is intended to bring collaborators together to create a new infographic that presents the intersections of various Open movements and applies them to the daily lives of college students. The project supports the "connecting with other open movements" and "empowering the next generation" priorities discussed in Cape Town Open Education Declaration +10: http://www.capetowndeclaration.org/cpt10/
This resource is inspired by the Association of Research Libraries’ “Fair Use in a Day in the Life of a College Student” infographic: http://www.arl.org/focus-areas/copyright-ip/fair-use/3831-fair-use-in-a-day-in-the-life-of-a-college-student-infographic
The resulting resource will be shared with a CC-BY license, and the participation of all contributors will be acknowledged.
Michelle Reed, the project lead, is attending remotely and will join the Do-a-Thon online between 13:00 and 17:00 (6 a.m. – 10 a.m. CST).
The primary goal for do-a-thon day is to identify collaborators. Beyond that, we will brainstorm the intersections of various Open movements, discuss the impact of Open on students (undergraduates in particular), write copy, begin the layout and design process, and discuss OER distribution options.
Work on the project will continue after the do-a-thon with an expected completion date of February 16, 2018 (if not sooner). Do-a-thon participants may elect to limit their participation to the hours of the do-a-thon, though continued participation on the project is encouraged. Remote participation is also encouraged, and contributors are welcome to join at any time.
This is a remote project. We'll begin the discussion here following the 13:00 do-a-thon update for in-person participants. As a group, we will determine if there is a need to move the conversation outside the GitHub space. I will also post updates on Twitter at https://twitter.com/LibrariansReed using the hash tag #openinthelife
Email will not be used during the do-a-thon, though it may be the primary means of communication in the long term.
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Submission name: How might we encourage researchers towards open research practices?
Contact lead: @InquisitiveVi
Issue area: #OpenResearch
Region: #Europe
Issue Type: #Challenge
Since increased visibility through Open Access will potentially fade out when every research output becomes open by default in the near future (utopia), what reasons should motivate researchers to follow open practices?
// // Coming soon. Test submission.
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Submission name: How might we ensure that early career academic professionals are meaningfully represented on the boards of organizations working in the OA, OER, Open Data space?
Contact lead: @nshockey
Issue area: #OpenAccess, #OpenData, #OpenEducation, #OpenResearch
Region: #Global
Issue Type: #Challenge
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Submission name: Things We've Learned at OpenCon
Contact lead: @Daniel-Mietchen
Issue area: #OpenAccess, #OpenData, #OpenEducation, #OpenResearch
Region: #Global
Issue Type: #Project
Types of Support Needed: #Advocacy_and_Policy, #Coding, #Communications, #Community_GrassrootsOrganizing, #EventPlanning, #Fundraising, #GraphicDesign, #Research, Documentation
One of the things that is hardest to document about an event but possibly most valuable to know about is the things that were learned there. Let's use this ticket to at least try to address that for OpenCon.
If a ticket like this on GitHub is not a good way for you to express what you've learned, then try using the hashtags #opencon AND #thingsIvelearned together, i.e. #opencon #thingsIvelearned on Twitter or in the collaborative notes.
[email protected]Wikidata provides an amazing infrastructure for exploring and discovering linked research data. The Wikidata community is building tools that allow visualizing these data in unprecedented ways (see Michael Eisen on Scholia). Yet these data remain incomplete (see Michael Eisen on ORCID) and laborious to update automatically.
QwikiStatements will provides the means to streamline the enrichment of Wikidata by parsing and linking data from ORCID and CrossRef. We will be using R and/or Python to bridge in the gap between an ORCID profile and QuickStatments.
R and/or Python knowledge. APIs and HTTP calls. Will to engage editing Wikipedia/Wikimedia.
Ideas, testing, and communication.
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Description: Often calling data open or making it available for download seem like enough to make your data open, but officially adding an open license is an essential step to making data open. What are some challenges that data custodians are encountering with licensing? How can we make the practice more mainstream?
Contact lead: Selene, [email protected]
Issue area: #OpenData, #OpenResearch
Region: #None
Issue Type: #Challenge
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OpenCon this year will include workshops focused on advancing regional-specific issues in Open Research and Open Education. In one of these workshops we’re proposing and going to be working through “How might we help supporters of openness take steps towards open practice without needing to change existing rules ?”.
We were interested in this question because Open Research is still in its infancy throughout Asia rendering traditional practices dominate the institutional culture, in a very heterogenous setting. For example, journal lists endorsed by national bodies eventually restrict open practice at individual level. We are interested in exploring how to overcome such barriers to openness within the existing system.
During the workshop (as well as before—and after!) we invite anyone to help tackle this challenge. You don’t need to be part of the workshop — or conference to share your thoughts and ideas! We’ll keep this issue up to date with anything we do or learn.
Anyone can contribute to these efforts. The place to start in helping us more deeply understand the challenge from more angles. We’ve started the effort in this Google Document, and we invite you to jump in and share any thoughts. Before the workshop, we’ll use that document to help make sure our theme has the right emphasis and help plan the workshop.
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Submission name: Critical Open Scholarship Reading List
Contact lead: [email protected]
Issue area: #OpenAccess, #OpenData, #OpenEducation, #OpenResearch
Region: #NorthernAmerica, #Global
Issue Type: #Project
Types of Support Needed: #Community_GrassrootsOrganizing, #Research
This reading list aims to build off some of the ideas presented in OpenCon's Diversity Equity and Inclusion Panel:
"While the Open Access, Open Data, and Open Education movements often lean on rhetoric around social justice, equity, and the democratization of knowledge, in many ways, the movements continue to marginalize underrepresented scholars and students. Mainstream efforts to advance Open centre digital solutions and dominant (often Western) ways of knowing. At the same time, they fail to acknowledge issues salient to marginalized social and geographical contexts, such as the digital divide, non-Western ways of knowing, and the colonization of information. This OpenCon panel session aims to prompt critical discussions around the ways in which the Open movements have replicated some of the same systems of power and oppression in higher education that they were originally meant to address. Audience members should leave with a more critical view of openness, and be encouraged to reflect on the following questions:
How do the solutions put forth by the Open movements reinforce Western dominance, colonialism, as well as barriers on the basis of race, class, gender, ability, etc...?
How does exclusion and a lack of diversity impact their own Open advocacy work in their communities and/or institutions?
How might they begin to address this in their own communities?"
I have a personal list of articles that I often reference when reflecting on the limitations of Open Research and Open Education, but I'd love to share and grow that list, and exchange favourite papers with others. I'm looking for folks who have other readings to link and add to the list! Looking for:
I'm at the in-person meeting in Berlin but hoping this will be a longer term project. Will share a google doc soon. If you have suggestions for readings, please link them right in this Github thread!
I am an English speaker so my own suggested readings will be in English, but totally open for folks to suggest readings in their other languages as well!
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There are several excellent repositories for open textbooks; however, there are many high quality OERs that are not open textbooks that educators would benefit from being able to discover. These might include websites such as neuroanatomy.ca, sets of simulations such as those from phet.colorado.edu, and even open textbooks that do not qualify to be placed into the major open textbook repositories (e.g., because of the use of the ND clause). This project aims to produce a curated and annotated list of these resources, organized within an open textbook (with each discipline appearing as a separate chapter) that can easily be shared and updated over time.
We will need subject matter expertise, experience with searching for OER, contacts and communication with people not at OpenCon to help discover what non-textbook OERs educators are using. Participants will need a laptop.
Suggest some disciplines to start with (those you are most familiar with). We will work in Google docs during the do-a-thon and later import our content into Pressbooks, a popular open textbook platform that will enable easy sharing and reuse. We will set up a mechanism (e.g., Hypothes.is) to enable comments and additional suggestions after the do-a-thon. This effort will benefit from drawing on our networks to lengthen and strengthen out list after the initial push.
Participants wanting to join our session remotely will be given access to the Google doc, which supports concurrent collaborative editing.
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Submission name: How might we promote the publication of Open Research Data as a new way of teaching?
Contact lead: [email protected], jm_microblog
Issue area: #OpenAccess, #OpenData, #OpenEducation, #OpenResearch
Region: #Global
Issue Type: #Challenge
I think, that the the shift to Open Research Data is also a shift towards a new way of teaching. Because if you are bulding the Open Research Data in the right way, you are preparing them to re-use. That means that you are practically teaching the users, about your data. I think this helps the creator of the open research data to learn also from this process. For that reason I would like to submit the challange to do-a-thon to talk and design the basic principles of these approach.
I would be glad to talk and design tools during the do-a-thon with anyone, that feels about the topic in the same way as I do. I have some experience in the creating the Mind Maps, that I would like to use also for the challange.
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Submission name: How might we increase the uptake and rewards associated with preprint publishing?
Contact lead: @rchampieux
Issue area: #OpenAccess, #OpenResearch
Region: #NorthernAmerica
Type: #Challenge
// More context coming soon!
// More context coming soon!
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Submission name: Radian
Contact lead: @rchampieux
Issue area: #OpenData, #OpenResearch
Region: #NorthernAmerica
Issue Type: #Project
Types of Support Needed: #Blogging _Communications_SocialMediaCampaigns, #Community_GrassrootsOrganizing
Project Site: www.radiandata.org
Radian is a project to make open access data related resources more discoverable.
We're working on the following questions during the do-a-thon:
Where should we be looking for good content?
How can we connect with global experts?
// This section is in progress - stay tuned!
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Flockademic is an attempt to get more journals to flip to an Open Access model. By taking over the work of having to set up journal infrastructure and to obtain funding, academics can start a journal independently of the traditional publishers - and make it Open Access.
The initial version of Flockademic is currently in development. Although it is working well, no designer is involved with the project yet, so it does not look that good. The goal of the Do-a-thon is to design a landing page and/or the article submission flow.
Although they could help, copywriting and coding skills are not needed - it will be made into a working website later. If you'd like to look at what we currently have, view Flockademic on GitLab.
This is a remote project. If you're interested in getting involved, let me know at [email protected] or leave a comment here. We can then find the process that works best for you and your skills and interests. I will set up a chatroom for November 13th to facilitate real-time communication. Chatroom here.
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OAbot finds paywalled citations on Wikipedia and suggests an open link to add. This makes Wikipedia more open access, from the article context, through to the citations.
OAbot added 2,000 links through this year's Open Access Week, but has been a victim of its success: the suggestion queue is showing links that are low-quality and have already been 'skipped'. We need to implement a 'reject' option to keep the queue quality.
That's just one of a dozen feature requests pending on our workboard, from UX to instructions. If you can code or design, or have an interest in repositories, preprints, or license metadata this is an open-licensed collaborative project and we'd love your help!
Codebase: https://github.com/dissemin/oabot
Workboard: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2734/
Documentation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:OABOT
Live chat: https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net/#wikipedia-library
Can you help us advance open access?
Let's start with the specs: The tool is written in Python with flask. It stores candidate edits as JSON files on disk. Proposed edits are represented by the TemplateEdit class declared in main.py.
Our highest priority task is To add a reject button in addition to [skip] and [add link]. For this, we need to decide how to represent rejected edits and choose a form of storage for the list of rejects; all matching edits in the store of proposed edits must be invalidated; and candidate edits discovered after that must be matched against this database to filter them out.
Other features, all of which are open for contribution, are listed, described, and prioritized, on the phabricator workboard:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2734/
The tool is globally relevant but currently in English. It is being localized through translatewiki.net over the next year. For now, English is the main development language.
This is a remote-friendly project and those participating in the do-a-thon remotely can follow this github issue for updates, as well as the OAbot github codebase, and the phabricator workboard. People from around the world are already working on this tool, so feel free to jump in from wherever you are!
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Daniel Himmelstein <[email protected]>)The Manubot let's you write and continuously publish a manuscript on GitHub. Write in markdown and cite using just DOIs or other identifiers. Free yourself from antiquated or proprietary software such as Microsoft Word, LaTeX, EndNote, Mendeley, BibTeX, or MathType. While still young, the Manubot already powers the Deep Review (a massively collaborative review paper), the Sci-Hub Coverage Study, and has even reproduced the Bitcoin Whitepaper.
The Manubot aims to make scholarly publishing transparent, reproducible, and collaborative. It's an open source project and gratis to use. In a world of ever-increasing scholarly publishing costs, take a stand to show how publishing can be entirely free of charge, while also offering a superior user experience to existing journals. More details in these slides.
At the do-a-thon, we will first help users setup new Manubot instance for their manuscripts. The setup process can be a bit technical, so this tutorial may be helpful for many users.
Next, attendees are encouraged to help improve the Manubot and contribute features they'd like to see. While the Manubot already supports tables, figures, equations, citation by identifiers, custom bibliographic styles, templating, timestamping, and more, there's still work needed to perfect the system and make it more user friendly as well as interoperable with the existing scholarly infrastructure.
Specifically expertise that's relevant for contributions is frontend or Python development, creating bots / automation, documentation writing, continuous integration, git / GitHub, Pandoc, publishing experience, and copyediting. If you have other skills, we can likely use them as well!
Try setting up your own manuscripts!
Specific issues for anyone looking for tasks are:
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Submission name: How might we make Open Educational Resources more easily editable to better serve local contexts
Contact lead: [email protected]
Issue area: #OpenEducation
Region: #Global
Issue Type: #Challenge
Because a lot of OER come in PDF format, users are unable to exercise the 5R's (revise, remix, reuse, retain and redistribute) at ease. Further a lot of OER is written in an American context, which can be a problem for local communities who desire to be reflected in the content within their learning resources. For example in the Canadian context, there may be a need to translate content into French or an indigenous language, or more broadly speaking the examples used within the resource should be relevant to assist users.
// Coming soon!
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Submission Name: Open Educational Resources that can be used and adopted in regions without steady internet connection?
Contact Lead: (This is an example submission— but I would love if someone worked on it or volunteers to take the lead!)
Region: #Global
Issue Area: #OpenEducation
Issue Type: #Challenge
Although one of the goals of the Open Education movement is to reduce barriers to accessing education, many OER remain reliant on digital infrastructure, and these educational materials remain inaccessible to those without wifi at home, or in regions where internet is more expensive and primarily accessed on mobile. For this challenge statement, we are asking how can we create OER that can be adapted offline, or that take into account the digital divide.
// More details coming soon — for now, leave any relevant comments, readings, or links on this thread!
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Submission name: How might we create Open Educational Resources that can be used and adapted in offline environments?
Contact lead: [ Noone is leading this challenge at the moment - if you're interested in taking the lead on this topic, let us know! ]
Issue area: #OpenData, #OpenResearch
Region: #Europe
Issue Type: #Challenge
// More context for this problem coming soon!
// Game plan coming soon!
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Submission name: Reproducibility book club
Contact lead: @npscience
Issue area: #OpenAccess, #OpenResearch
Region: #Global
Issue Type: #Project
Types of Support Needed: #Blogging_Communications_SocialMedia, #Research
Reproducibility Book Club is a reading club to synthesize the literature on research reproducibility into easy-to-understand summaries and actionable key points
During the do-a-thon, we're looking to:
// this is in progress!
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Submission name: How might we make our leaders care about open alongside more urgent issues? [ Workshop Challenge ]
Contact lead: Ahmed ([email protected]) & Elise ([email protected])
Issue area: #OpenAccess, #OpenData, #OpenEducation, #OpenResearch
Region: #Africa
Issue Type: #Challenge
OpenCon this year will include workshops focused on advancing regional-specific issues in Open Research and Open Education. In one of these workshops we’re proposing and going to be working through “How might we make our leaders care about open alongside more urgent issues”.
We’re interested in this because as individuals, we’ve both seen how hard it can be to see any change in our leaders (both inside, and outside) universities. However, together we think change, however gradually, is still possible! We’d like to explore ways we could do that on our own campuses.
During the workshop (as well as before—and after!) we invite anyone to help tackle this challenge. You don’t need to be part of the workshop — or conference to share your thoughts and ideas! We’ll keep this issue up to date with anything we do or learn.
Anyone can contribute to these efforts. The place to start in helping us more deeply understand the challenge from more angles. We’ve started the effort in this Google Document https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HfQJcA-kUyoQ75LT4xHiYwFHs8BYV7EayqHG8RkFnv4/edit#heading=h.d011wwf7n2qb, and we invite you to jump in and share any thoughts. Before the workshop, we’ll use that document to help make sure our theme has the right emphasis and help plan the workshop.
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Submission name: How might we create credible systems of measuring the reputation of research as an alternative to journal title?
Contact lead: Formerly @jpolka but I will be working on: #58
Issue area: #OpenResearch
Region: #Global
Issue Type: #Challenge
// More info coming soon!
// More info coming soon!
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OpenCon this year will include workshops focused on advancing region-specific issues in Open Research and Open Education. In one of these workshops we’re proposing and going to be working through the question “How might we help individuals shape the culture around them in a university?”
We’re interested in this because too often we find ourselves and our peers wanting to make a change towards greater openness but we are faced with inertia or pushback that feels outside our control. For example, we may wish to publish in an open-access journal but find ourselves up against the demand to publish in prestigious closed-access journals in order to have the best chance of pursuing an academic career. Or we may want to use something better than Microsoft Word to write our papers but we find it hard to do this efficiently when we need to request feedback from our supervisor who only uses Word. We would like to help give open advocates the agency to drive small changes in the culture directly around them, which may help build broader culture change over time.
During the workshop (as well as before—and after!) we invite anyone to help tackle this challenge. You don’t need to be part of the workshop — or conference to share your thoughts and ideas!
If you will be with us in Berlin, here are the links to our sessions on Sched:
We’ll keep this issue up to date with anything we do or learn.
Anyone can contribute to these efforts. The place to start in helping us more deeply understand the challenge from more angles. We’ve started the effort in this Google Document and we invite you to jump in and share any thoughts. Before the workshop, we’ll use that document to help make sure our theme has the right emphasis and help plan the workshop.
During the workshop, we’ll be following a plan that looks something like this. We’re still working on ironing out the final agenda details, but at the start of the session, we’ll confirm exactly what we’ll do and walk everyone through it.
For those not in the room, subscribe to this issue (click on the subscribe button to the right). We’ll post our outputs and notes here immediately after every session!
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OpenCon this year will include workshops focused on advancing region-specific issues in Open Research and Open Education. In one of these workshops we’re proposing and going to be working through “How might we understand and address the time demands of working on open initiatives?”.
We’re interested in this because managing time demands is a challenge anyone working on open issues is likely to be familiar with. It is common across the huge variety of roles within and aligned with Open Education, Open Access, Open Data, and beyond. For all of us, there are ongoing questions of adequately recognising and rewarding time contributions (financially or otherwise), considering who does and doesn’t have the time to dedicate to open projects and how that affects participation in the community, how to manage paid and volunteer workloads, and more. It’s a big, knotty question, but we’re looking forward to breaking it down and exploring it in more detail together.
Both Zoe and Danielle believe supporting people to contribute to and sustain open projects is key to the survival and growth of these projects. And we’ve seen great ideas and projects suffer from a lack of sustained effort investment, contributor burnout, and lack of resources. We’re excited to discuss how to better understand and address the time demands of working on open initiatives and surface strategies to help make working open sustainable.
Anyone can contribute to these efforts. The place to start in helping us more deeply understand the challenge from more angles. We’ve started the effort in this Google Document, and we invite you to jump in and share any thoughts. Before the workshop, we’ll use that document to help make sure our theme has the right emphasis and help plan the workshop.
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Submission Name: Open Access Toolkit - how to be a change agent
Contact Lead: [email protected], Katerina Dima
Region: #Global
Issue Area: #Open Access, #OpenData, #OpenResearch, #OpenEducation
Issue Type: #Project
Types of Support Needed: Input on topics such a toolkit should contain (content development), useful resources or relevant examples and any other insight from experts on the field
Description
IFMSA is an international network for medical students. Part of our work revolves around research and research opportunities for students and we have long advocated for Open Access developing our own policy and advocacy plans. However, we have not developed a specific toolkit for our members to use locally to raise Open issues among their peers and faculties even though it is much needed. We are looking to create such a capacity building tool, that will support grassroot movements, this year but are struggling with where to start and what exactly it should include - and more importantly, how to create something that can be personalized locally by so many different backgrounds and environments. ============================"
Any successful examples of such documents, useful resources (in any form), any input or ideas about the content development or about perhaps potential experts we could approach to work on this - all would be greatly appreciated. We will be opening up a google document soon with more specific details! In the meantime, feel free to leave any thoughts you may have under this issue!
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The main aim of my time at the OpenCon 2017 conference is to kickstart my Open Access project to create an Open Access Archive for research on men and masculinities. The primary drive behind this project is to offer an free open space for men and boys to have access to research (primarily from academia) that deals with a range of issues linked to men and masculinities and gender equality.
The project is intent on being intersectional, that is to say, it aims to include research that investigates and presents the range of experiences of men and women from all sections of society. The focus of the research to be included in the archive should be on how power discourses impact upon social categorisations such as race, class, and gender, and how they shape systems of discrimination in society.
What I want from my time at OpenCon is:
Plus any other ideas on what I should be considering when setting up such an archive.
Please feel free to contact me on Twitter @DrPeterFerry or my email [email protected]
Looking forward to working with you!
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Search engines have huge impact on what we find, read, and use for our work and have a huge potential for affecting the open science movement. What are some of the issues you would like to see addressed in the search engines you use for work? For example, google scholar doesn't show retractions, which I think can perpetuate negative stereotypes about science and irreproducibility.
If you have ideas on which issues can be improved regarding your favorite search engines or strategies on how to implement them, please feel free to email me ([email protected]), see me in person at OpenCon Berlin 2017 (Nov. 10-13), or comment on this github page. We are meeting at the Planck Lobby, on the sofas near the windows and in front of the table with water bottles.
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At a glance
Submission name: How might we make the results of research from Africa known and promoted on Open Source platforms?
Contact lead: [email protected]
Issue area: #OpenAccess, #OpenData, #OpenResearch
Region: #Africa
Issue Type: #Challenge
Description
My challenge is to find ways to make more visible the results of scientific research / work done in Africa.
This is to solve the problem of the absence of the African continent in the world of scientific research. And also to allow young African researchers to have more resources from their continent at their disposal.
How can others contribute
You can contact me as part of this challenge on my email address mentioned above.
Contributions as sources of data relating to African scientific research will be very welcome. And also testimonials from African researchers about their contribution to scientific documentation for the continent.
I will work mainly with collaborative work tools like Google Docs. Here's the link of the Google Docs contribution page : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mhiVqV831P2SBcBFJ21Q61ZRlBJuCF1lGQhVY7I7vzs/edit?usp=sharing
Contributions can be in English or French.
I won't be in person at the OpenCon Berlin. However, I will be available for discussions on Skype (user: Justin Ahinon) to contribute to the challenge.
En un coup d'oeil
Nom de la soumission: Comment pourrions-nous faire connaître et promouvoir les résultats des recherches scientifiques en Afrique sur les plateformes Open Source?
Contact principal: [email protected]
Thématiques : #OpenAccess, #OpenData, #OpenResearch
Région: Afrique
Type de problème: #Challenge
La description
Mon défi est de trouver des moyens pour rendre plus visibles les résultats de recherche scientifique ainsi que les travaux scientifiques effectués en Afrique.
Cela afin de résoudre le problème de l'absence du continent africain dans le monde de la recherche scientifique. Et aussi pour permettre aux jeunes chercheurs africains d'avoir à leur disposition plus de ressources scientifiques provenant du continent africain.
Comment pouvez-vous contribuer ?
Vous pouvez me contacter dans le cadre de ce défi sur mon adresse e-mail mentionnée ci-dessus.
Les contributions comme des sources de données relatives à la recherche scientifique africaine (Résultats de recherche, thèses, publications, etc... ) seront les bienvenues. Et aussi des témoignages de chercheurs africains sur leur contribution à la documentation scientifique pour le continent.
Je travaillerai principalement avec des outils de travail collaboratif comme Google Docs. Voici le lien de la page de contribution Google Docs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mhiVqV831P2SBcBFJ21Q61ZRlBJuCF1lGQhVY7I7vzs/edit?usp=sharing
Les contributions peuvent être en anglais ou en français.
Je ne serai pas en personne à l'OpenCon Berlin. Cependant, je serai disponible pour des discussions sur Skype (utilisateur: Justin Ahinon) pour contribuer au défi.
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