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Using BOSC2015 unconference sessions on building successful open source bioinformatics communities to write an open collaborative article
This post seems relevant, and has a lot of good stuff. Not sure how best to integrate what's in there - perhaps just in the category of prior (or concurrent)...
Several issues were linked to ways of collecting examples/anecdotes from others re: their experiences working in OS scientific communities. To (hopefully) make it easier to work through this issue list,...
We discussed and (I think) agreed that a good way to add content linked to experiences from many different OS scientific communities, would be to directly contact people working on...
Ismail and I have updated the list of features of great OS scientific communities, to reflect the GoogleDoc we wrote at the Sep 10th 2015 GoogleHangout. Looking through the text...
OK now with the list of features? It might be too long, but I struggle to shorten it by merging/removing redundancy - some features are similar/related, but still I find...
Just as reference, here is a link to the shared Google Doc that everyone is currently editing... [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jIYaBLoW02sCDNDgikYNWipaQwfVrRQI5QmhM0H-wHc/edit](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jIYaBLoW02sCDNDgikYNWipaQwfVrRQI5QmhM0H-wHc/edit)
Here's a first suggestion for a time plan for the project - if you have any suggestions/edits/etc. for it, add them below. If we get a lot, I'll add this...
Just dropping a idea here about estimating and talking about the bus factor in OS projects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
Any of you up for meeting online to talk about this? I'd be really interested to discuss like that to hear what you'd like to do with what we have...
With this issue I will collect some questions I would like to discuss/clarify in the manuscript + some random thoughts. Please feel free to take a few of them out...