Building a Searchable Open Data Repository of DNA Collections that are Freely-Shared under OpenMTA, with an Associated Landscape Map Visualisation of the Collection Users

[ykho001]

Project Leads: @ykho001, @cibele-z, @helendageNB

Mentor: saravilla, marielaraj

Welcome to OLS-7! This issue will be used to track your project and progress during the program. Please use this checklist over the next few weeks as you start Open Life Science program 🎉.

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Week 1: Meet your mentor!

• Meet mentor for 30 minutes
• Create an account on GitHub
• Check if you have access to the HackMD GDrive notes set up for your meetings with your mentor
• Prepare to meet your mentor(s) by completing a short homework provided in your shared notes
• Complete your own copy of the open leadership self-assessment and share it to your mentor
  If you're a group, each teammate should complete this assessment individually. This is here to help you set your own personal goals during the program. No need to share your results, but be ready to share your thoughts with your mentor.
  • For YH
  • For CZ
  • For YB
• Make sure you know when and how you'll be meeting with your mentor.

Before Week 2: Cohort Call (Welcome to Open Life Science!)

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube
  • https://annuel2.framapad.org/p/ols-8-week-02
  • https://annuel2.framapad.org/p/ols-8-week-03
• Create an issue on the OLS-4 GitHub repository for your OLS work and share the link to your mentor.
• Draft a brief vision statement (still WIP!) using your goals
  This lesson from the Open Leadership Training Series (OLTS) might be helpful
• Leave a comment on this issue with your draft vision statement & be ready to share this on the call
• Check the Syllabus for notes and connection info for all the cohort calls.

Before Week 3: Meet your mentors!

• Meet mentors (postponed to Week 4)
• Look up two other projects and comment on their issues with feedback on their vision statement
• Complete this compare and contrast assignment

about current and desired community interactions and value exchanges

• Complete your Open Canvas (instructions, canvas

)

• Share a link to your Open Canvas in your GitHub issue
• Start your Roadmap
• Comment on your issue with your draft Roadmap
• Suggest a cohort name at the bottom of the shared notes and vote on your favorite with a +1

Before Week 4: Cohort Call (Tooling and roadmapping for Open projects)

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube
• Look up two other projects and comment on their issues with feedback on their open canvas.

Week 5 and later

• Meet mentor
• Create a GitHub repository for your project
• Add the link to your repository in your issue
• Use your canvas to start writing a README.md file, or landing page, for your project
• Link to your README in a comment on this issue
• Add an open license to your repository as a file called LICENSE.md
• Add a Code of Conduct to your repository as a file called CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
• Invite new contributors to into your work!

This issue is here to help you keep track of work as you start Open Life Science program. Please refer to the OLS-4 Syllabus for more detailed weekly notes and assignments past week 4.

Week 6

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube

Week 7

• Meet mentor

Week 8

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube

Week 9

• Meet mentor (with Expert Jesica Formosa)

Week 10

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube

Week 11

• Meet mentor

Week 12

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube

Week 13

• Meet mentor

Week 14

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube

Week 15

• Meet mentor

[rgiessmann]

Hi @ykho001 @cibele-z and others!

I really like your title, and did a PhD in Biotechnology myself -- where I always wondered why we bought the restriction enzymes and did not have a community to provide each other with them (though if you calculate the time and money and are alone, on the individual basis it's mostly better to go for the commercial provider...).

If you need a sparring partner to develop your vision statement, I would be happy to help out! :) Just let me know!

Best, Robert

[ykho001]

Hi @rgiessmann,
Thanks for your message and intro to yourself! It'll be great to take you up on your offer for help too - thank you!

Depending on where you are in the world, it can definitely be easier (cost- and time-efficient) to buy commercially, but in other cases it can be quicker and/or cheaper to make your own and perhaps distribute the means to do so locally.

This development of a global collaboration for equitable access to biotechnology and open redistribution of these resources is the general vision for our community, the Reagent Collaboration Network (Reclone).
You can find out more about the Open DNA Collections/Toolkits that Reclone currently stewards from our website, and discuss the best practices for using these parts on the Reclone Forum.

We're still working on our vision statement for this specific project, but welcome your feedback when we get around to posting it here!

Best wishes, Yan Kay

[rgiessmann]

Hi there, that's great, I really like the Reclone vision. I tried to subscribe to updates there, but from https://reclone.org/ I got to http://eepurl.com/g1ezE5 and got a 404 error there. Could you check? Thanks and best! And let's be in touch! :) Robert

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On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 12:55 PM ykho001 ***@***.***> wrote: Hi @rgiessmann <https://github.com/rgiessmann>, Thanks for your message and intro to yourself! It'll be great to take you up on your offer for help too - thank you! Depending on where you are in the world, it can definitely be easier (cost- and time-efficient) to buy commercially, but in other cases it can be quicker and/or cheaper to make your own and perhaps distribute the means to do so locally. This development of a global collaboration for equitable access to biotechnology and open redistribution of these resources is the general vision for our community, the Reagent Collaboration Network (Reclone) <https://reclone.org/>. You can find out more about the Open DNA Collections/Toolkits that Reclone currently stewards <https://reclone.org/reagents/> from our website, and discuss the best practices for using these parts on the Reclone Forum <https://forum.reclone.org/c/open-dna-collections/reagents/7>. We're still working on our vision statement for this specific project, but welcome your feedback when we get around to posting it here! Best wishes, Yan Kay — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#35 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AEEK5ROYSIBTLBV5VNZJWWTX7ZPZJAVCNFSM6AAAAAA5S6BH4CVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMYTONRWGE3TCNJZGA> . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[cibele-z]

Our Open Canvas: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1cnZsA5emfOXJVzi0muPXjN7uszfuNazWY0RQDq3Qk8s/edit#slide=id.p3

[ykho001]

Our Vision (WIP): https://docs.google.com/document/d/13s-iOxxn4FD6w8NtQS9w_HyZeqYlQqXZ/edit

Our Roadmap (WIP): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DOCjtNm_EeqwNY96OMwxZjQIRHBhCKSRrzGwTmu6PNc/edit