probaly good to have each module developed separately as chapter of a book,
is it what you propose rutger?

Once all the content is drafted and the platform is selected, there is the question of how we are going to directly interact with course participants. What kind of interactions do we anticipate between participants and those running the course, who is going to have those interactions, and how do we support those interactions at scale if we get 100, 1000, or 10000 participants?

This includes any role course operators are supposed to play in re/viewing the work that students do as part of the module assignments and any efforts to support students who are having trouble.

Starting this as an issue because there are so many different ways to approach the issue. If there is already an agreed upon plan for this then it may just need to be surfaced so that new participants coming to the project can see those as options for how to contribute time/effort.

This OpenScience initiative is great! Keep the good work!

I'd like to brainstorm a bit on how to select a tool to use. In order to achieve an Open Everything status, the tools/services used should be Open Source also. For example, git is an free and open-source tool, but GitHub is a non-paid proprietary service. GitLab on the other hand uses only open-source software on their services. An open-source alternative to Slack is Riot.

What funding sources are available for the MOOC.

Hi all,
We now (2019-01-11) have produced some content and I think it is time to think more about how it should be given to the students. For instance, I heard that online courses should not exceed 10 minutes duration for each unit. We are clearly not following that in the MOOC.

I personally have no expertise here, but I did not see many critics from the people with expertise yet.

So time for feedback ?!

As mentionned in #17 and other issues before that there's seems to be an interest in creating a Open Source software database à la AlternativeTo.net. This issue is to discuss a bit more about what we need to do and how we need to do it to make it hapen. :)

Describe the bug
Submitting username to join organization ends up in internal server error

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to 'site'
2. Type your 'Username'
3. See error

Expected behavior
Should go on the thank you page or other landing page

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Additional context
If you are accepting new invites for you organization please consider me as a full stack python developer @thehassantahir

http://info.p2pu.org/2014/07/21/how-to-use-github-pages-to-build-your-open-online-course-and-community/

Not the worst idea..

The sticker slide (no.26) contains a Zenodo URL which goes nowhere. The correct URL should be: https://zenodo.org/record/1285575
Also I note that that Zenodo record uses CC-by-4.0 when you actually want CC0 - in fact CC0 is available in Zenodo, and it is possible to update the record and republish it with this more general waiver if you wish
Best Regards, Tim

I was today in a very interesting talk about licenses.
In brief, there is 2 main legal system, one for UK/USA, and one for Europe (and their respective former colonies). The European one has no copyrights law, but author's rights. That means that CC0 is irrelevant in Europe: you cannot waive attribution necessity (as well as change the title). It also means that you legally have to give attribution to CC0 licensed material if you use in Europe. To simplify, CC0 becomes CC-BY if the author or the user is in Europe (but that very few people will realise it).
That means that the CC0 label is misleading in most cases.

I therefore propose to change the license to CC-BY, and add a note about why we changed.

Hi folks! Sooo, is anyone here any good at design? And would like to help create a poster or flyer for the mooc? Either for social media or offline? I'm a bit, well, not good at these sorts of things..

Let's write one.
some links given here: OpenScienceMOOC/Module-5-Open-Research-Software-and-Open-Source#19 :

Nielsen, Jakob. 1997. ‘How Users Read on the Web’. Nielsen Norman Group (blog). 1 October 1997. https://www.nngroup.com/articles/how-users-read-on-the-web/.

‘Writing Digital Copy for Domain Experts’. n.d. Nielsen Norman Group. Accessed 17 November 2017. https://www.nngroup.com/articles/writing-domain-experts/.

Consider those for whom English is a second language, too.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Writing_clearly

File to be found https://github.com/OpenScienceMOOC/Main/blob/master/Production_Files/WritingStyleGuide.md

In the spirit of being as inclusive and diverse as possible, the idea is to have the MOOC content available in other languages other than English.

First discussion has happened in the Slack room: https://osmooc.herokuapp.com/, where the following channels have been created for 8 languages:

The channels can be used to set dedicated translation teams.

Before hacking this, we should agree on the translation strategy though.

For example:

• Do we create separate MOOCs for the other languages?
• Do we make captions and only translate the video materials?
• Do we find a way to integrate other languages into the existing EN content?
  Etc.

How to customise the MOOC for different learning groups at an institutional level. For example, creating Beginner, Intermediate, and Expert levels.

Testing issue in prep for the mozsprint

how to be more inclusive for non-western Open Science communities?
What tools and platforms to use?
How to integrate with non-western platforms and services? - interoperability for Github et al?
How to deal with connectivity issues and still keep the dialogue up with local communities?

Profile - @ucalyptus

I am an undergraduate at PICT, Pune. A quality and output-driven computer enthusiast. Passionate about exploring computer science and technology-related topics. My domains & fields of interest are machine learning, data science, Computer Vision, Python, Java, C++, R, MATLAB, open-source. I aspire to work and contribute to these fields for betterment society through research and innovations for improvisation in the field of computer science and technology.

I have a keen interest in the research, especially in the domains of machine learning, AI, and data science. I have been a research fellow at The Emerging Tech Foundation. I have been a python mentor at Skillship foundation, a mentor at facebook's developer's circle. I have a keen interest in writing technical blogs and articles, worked at Geeksforgeeks.org as a technical content writer. Also currently I am an editor at PICT IEEE NewsletterGroup, which is a technical biannual magazine of my college. Also, I write technical blogs on medium.

I am even passionate about web-development. I have developed the official website of CTD 2020 (a technical event of PISB), also completed a couple of internships in this domain with Wikasta Technical Solutions and another with Kode IT Solutions. I am Technical Lead Developer at GirlScript Foundation Pune, here I manage all the tech issues and development of its official website.

I am a semifinalist of the national python codathon conducted by cisco and ISTE. I have been accepted as a Udacity scholar for the Microsoft Azure Machine Learning scholarship program. I am also an enthusiastic open source contributor, I am a Github's Arctic Code Vault Contributor.

Keen about exploring opportunities in the field of research and development in computer science-related technologies, also open for collaborations!

Make sure that all content here (https://github.com/OpenScienceMOOC/Main/blob/master/communication_strategy.md) is comprehensive, with as broad a coverage as possible.

From the modules here https://opensciencemooc.eu/proposed-modules/ to the relevant repos on here, in the README files for each (see Module 5 for example).

Tried using Pandoc for this, and a couple of online services, but no luck! Anyone know of a service that works well for tabulated docx files?

please add @djdunleavy to the OSMOOC team

@jcolomb or @tosteiner - can you do that?
He sent an inquiry via email

There is an initiative called "#EUROmicroMOOC" https://theconversation.com/amp/euromicromooc-twitter-tambien-sirve-para-dar-clases-de-ciencia-103016?__twitter_impression=true . The idea is to move from "Publish or perish” to "visible or vanish”... in this case, using twitter... will be posted 3 class per week (by ej. monday-wed-frid) at the same hour... consisting in 30 to 40 twitts... all them giving a coherent history.... been 1 twitt per min. using links, images, blogs, news, videos and infographics about science and microbiology as resources....

What if we generate a list per unit of each module?

Not sure what happened here. This link: https://openmooc-ers-slackin.herokuapp.com/ usually enabled people to join the Slack group automatically without invite, but now returns an application error.

I think this is the tool we were using before: https://github.com/rauchg/slackin

Any assistance on fixing/rebuilding this would be appreciated. Can provide Slack admin upgrade if needed.

Open Badges (Mozilla) is a well-conceived system to manage badges in learning.
It is easy to set-up and use, and the software support is really good.
It would be nice to think together aboud.t:
. who attributes, issues and serves badges in OSMOOC

• types of badges (levels of achievement?)
• criteria for attribution.
  We should agree on this before issuing badges, to avoid the need to classify a posteriori.

Who would volunteer?

Could we also use have the mozilla confidant during the sprint?

As proposed in #17 It would be a good idea to propose at least one Open Source alternative (with a tasks/guide) for every non-free softwares we are suggesting in a module.

For example, we have a task in Module 5 on how to use GitHub. The goal will be to also create a similar tasks with a open source softwares like GitLab (or an other FOSS alternative).