Open-Canvas-for-Project-Strategy.srt

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Yo Yehudi: I'm going to talk a bit
about one tool that we like to

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use at the very start of the
open life science cohorts, which

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is the open canvas. And so if
I'm on the right window, I'm

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going to talk about it. Now,
we're going to ask you to follow

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up after the call, because it
takes a little while to spend

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some time thinking about it. But
we'll walk through what it is

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and why it might be useful, just
right now. So just going back

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also to the Mozilla's open
leadership framework, this is

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just to remind us, we're
focusing really specifically on

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the design elements. If you
recall Malvika was talking

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about how important it is to
design conscious pathways for

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people to contribute and to be
involved in your open science

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and community projects. So here,
we're looking really

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specifically at what we can do
to design these pathways. And

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this rubric, again, is something
we'll see quite often as we're

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working through, ols. And so
this time, we're talking about

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ways that we can find our
projects to empower

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understanding, sharing, and
participation and inclusion

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really specifically, I'm not
going to focus too much time on

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this. But it is really
interesting to look through the

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open leadership framework when
you have a minute or two. So

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this is the open canvas and you
say, Oh, no, it's a form filling

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exercise. It is. But it's really
useful one because it really

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helps you to reflect on what
you're doing and where you're

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going and why. So we're going to
actually drill in what each of

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these little boxes means and why
they're useful. So we have some

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sort of examples here. So you
can refer back to these slides.

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And it sort of gives you some
hints about how you might want

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to fill it out. But I'm going to
skip forward a little bit and

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just talk about each of the
boxes individually, and why we

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care and why we think they're
useful. So first of all, we've

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divided this into two halves.
One is on the left, there's the

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product. And on the right there
is the community. So one is

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really about the thing that
you're offering. And the other

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side, we're talking more about
the people who you're involving,

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when you're doing this, because
it's never really just about the

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project that you're working on.
It's also always about the

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people that you're working with
as much as anything. So digging

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into box number one, the
problem. So just, if you can

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print this out, print it if
otherwise, bring it up on Google

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Slides or fill this out on your
computer, but try and write down

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when you're doing your project,
what is the problem that you're

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trying to solve? So for ols, for
example, the problem that we are

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trying to solve might be that
open science is not something

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that is well known. And it's not
something that's easy. You can't

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just bring it fully formed  and not know
how to show share your work in

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an effective way. And then if we
move on to the next thing, what

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is then your proposed solution?
So you know, you know you have a

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problem? How would you like to
fix it? In our case, this was

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run a 16 week mentorship program
to help people learn a bit more

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and spread the word to others as
well. And then, how will you

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know that what you're doing is
something that is successful. So

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what are your key metrics for
this? So once again, for lls

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this might be and doesn't have
to be one example could be OLS is

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the number of people who have
participated in the program. So

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in OLS2, we had about 20
projects, and in our OLS3,

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we have almost 40 projects and
over 60 participants. So this is

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a metric that shows us that we
are in fact being successful and

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spreading the word. And then now
that you've got an idea of what

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you want to do, and how you want
to measure it, the next question

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is what resources do you need to
build this and this could be I

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need somewhere to put a website,
it could be I need people that

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are you know, I need their brain
power. Or maybe I need a coder,

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maybe I need someone who's a
community manager to help me

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out. Or maybe I want a designer,
there are so many different

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things that you might need. And
it really depends on your

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project. But just try and think
if you want to get the basics,

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just the real kickoff, what what
resources do you need to

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assemble to get there. And now
we actually move on to the

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community side where we start
thinking more about those people

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because one of those resources
may in fact, be the people. And

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so if you had someone who's
contributing to your project,

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think about who they are and
what they might look like. So

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again, if I'm thinking about
OLS, for example, then some

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of our contributions might be
open science practitioners who

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are our mentors and our experts,
and they can actually give

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advice to other people. I'm
going to skip this box and move

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on to user profiles. So the
target audience so who do we

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want to be using this? So if
you're thinking about your

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project, and this is something
that you're building so that

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other people can use it and
participate that's slightly

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different from contributors,
because contributors are the

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people who help you build this
users of people actually use

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what you've built. And so for
OLS, the user profile would be

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many of you who are here
participating as the project

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leads and the mentees. And then
you start thinking a bit about

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the channels. So now that we
know who the people we want to

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work with are we say, Well, how
can we gain them? So for

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example, for us to get
contributors for OLS, a lot

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of the time our channel was
simply email, we used our

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personal networks, and we said,
Hey, lovely person who we think

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you can be a mentor, can you
participate? Another one might

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be Twitter, for example, if you
share on social media, there may

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be other ways depending on what
your community is, it might be

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that you're reaching out to
someone local to you, or a

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research network or something
else like that. But that was

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previously for contributed
channels. This is again, the

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these are the people who are
helping you build what you

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build. And now we're thinking
how can what channels do we use

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if we want to find people who
want to learn from what we

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build, who want to participate,
but not necessarily as a

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contribution. So gaining new
users, for OLS, I think a lot

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of us has been word of mouth,
for example. But also people who

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have participated have been
shared it within their networks.

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And we've done things like
podcasts, and we've done talks,

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and we've done blog posts, and
we've done social media to try

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and gain the new users as the
new project leads and the new

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mentees. So have a think about
what your user channels are and

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how you'd get gain new users.
And this is the community

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engagement sort of subset of
boxes. And finally, now that

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you've thought about all of
these things, think, what is the

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clear message to state what you
offer? What Why do people wants

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to come to you what what is the
catch the exciting thing, and

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this might be perhaps, restating
your problem and solution, but

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in a short and concise sentence,
and also just explaining why

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you're different to others. So I
tried to think what this will be

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for OLS. Probably something
about the fact that we are

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experienced Open Science
practitioners who have been

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working with community for
collaboratively for quite a long

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time. And that we are able to
teach this and passes on to

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other people. But again, try and
think about what this might mean

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for your project as well. And so
here is an example of one that's

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been filled out with a project
in mind where people will get

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badges for working on open
science. So it gives you a bit

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more of an idea about what it
might look tangibly with when

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it's been applied to a project.
Again, this the link to the

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slides is available on the notes
documents, you can go back to

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this and you can view it
yourself in your own time. And

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we also have a link so that you
can write your own open canvas

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and I think this is one of our
assignments for the week, which

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is so it's bit dot L y slash o
LS dash open dash canvas.