Discuss open science and community building

Conversations about community building and open science is really important for getting support and supporting others with this work.

Community building

How do you talk to others (managers, supervisors) about the importance of community building and building social infrastructure? Here are some starting resources for reading about community building with Openscapes.

They are in order of article length and increasing specificity:

• Supercharge your research: a ten-week plan for open data science (Lowndes et al 2019) - community building within teams, based on our flagship program Openscapes Champions

• Shifting institutional culture to develop climate solutions with Open Science (Lowndes et al 2023) - community building within & across government orgs; authors are Openscapes Mentors who collaborate & support their colleagues within orgs

  • These slides - Documenting things: openly for future us share what’s possible from focusing on documentation and community

• The Openscapes Flywheel: A framework for managers to facilitate and scale inclusive Open science practices (Robinson & Lowndes 2022) - community building within NASA with a framework we developed and refine. 

  • These slides from an internal NASA meeting in March 2023 (linked from openscapes.org/media) tell some of this story