Our current meetings can be found here: 2020 Community Meetings

Meeting Notes April 11

• Mathilde is putting together a group with Open Science related projects through following up on a workshop at ProFund / Dahlem Research School
  
• Open Access position
• Open Science team planned ahead
• Open Science Verein Berlin

Event Planning

June 6: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Open Science

• 4-6 pm
• 20-40 people room (Christina)
• check in with Claudia about availabilty
• 4 speakers (Dirk invites them) focusing on opinions on Open Science (focusing on FU people)
• "What does Open Science mean for you?"
  • Dirk
  • someone of Mathilde's group
• plan: short talks + discussion
• moderator: Christina
• invite VP Mühlhahn, Brandtner for opening remarks
• create Wiki page for this event (Dirk)
• funding (Christina asks at UB, ERG)

July 4

Meeting Notes February 25

Attending: Cosima Wagner, Sibylle Söring, Martin Lee, Mathilde Noual, Dirk Ostwald, Christina Riesenweber

Tasks

•  Website (for outside people) - clmb asks for the domain - www.fu-berlin.de/sites/openscience
•  Wiki (for actual work) - clmb creates the wik, Christina sets it up
•  Mailing list - Dirk is joining in as moderator
•  contact external groups, like HU Open Science Group
•  Make a Doodle for all Thursdays May/June/July for event
•  Make a Doodle for all Thursdays March/April for meetings CR

Core findings

• Let’s live up to our name of “Freie Universität”.

Group Scope

• members
• community
• we want all people, including from Verwaltung
• right now we only invite informally
• after that we make a formal announcements (once we have the website)
• FU-only: you need at least a ZEDAT account to join in
• all current members should actively recruit

Group Aims

Collection

• Talk about what are good “Ermöglichungsstrukturen” - what do we need as researchers?
• facilitating Open Science at FU
• Include Open Science at top level (president)
• integrate Open Science into Berufungsverfahren
• aim to go into policy making
• lobbying for Open Science (e.g. with the Akademischer Senat)
• we are a group of experts
• we are a Think Tank Open Science
• Talks, Events, Fortbildungen
• collecting all the people at the FU who are interested in Open Science
• educating everyone at FU about Open Science
• use the window of opportunity with EU-level Open Science movement
• OS as technology vs. OS as a mindset
• changing mindsets takes time
• bring together people who are already doing Open Science
• collect all the projects that do Open Science
• break up departmental structures
• We need to offer people something (if we want them to contribute)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mertonian_norms
• transparency
• change the institutional practice (based on our individual practice)
• Freie Postdocs Berlin as an example, Science outside of Papers - possible collaboration? - pocket societies
• find other initiatives with similar
• contact to external groups, like HU Open Science Group

• focus energy and people
• educate
• make visible the existing practice
• facilitate

Infrastructure

• Website (for outside people) - clmb asks for the domain - www.fu-berlin.de/sites/openscience
• Wiki (for actual work) - clmb creates the wiki
• Mailing list - Dirk is joining in as moderator

Event Ideas

• Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Open Science
• members of the OSWG presents their view on Open Science
• 10-15 minutes talks x 3 + general discussion with audience
• introducing the group
• use the event to clarify our aims and views on Open Science
• What’s in it for the audience?
• Is this interesting enough for researchers?
• Frame: 4 pm at Seminarzentrum
• Sibylle`s idea
• establish the topic and the group
• offer expertise
• talk to an Open Sciencist
• forum for others to show their projects
• Mathilde’s idea
• create discussions
• co-organize existing disciplinary stuff
• get the people who are doing some kind of open science
• add to existing communitiies & events
  
• Invite established Open Science speakers
• get someone who has done something we are planning to do
• infrastructure vs researcher
• Model “Digital Humanities im Gespräch”
• having a series of small-ish events is easy to organize and gets a diverse in the long run
• Discuss an Open Science Utopia
• other formats, more workshop
• Open Formats
• Open Space
• Barcamp
• World Café

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