Location: Ravensbourne College, London, UK
MozFest is an annual festival of ideas, workshops and action towards a healthy internet that is open for all. Open science is an important topic at the event, with an active community of contributors also involved in the Mozilla Science Lab.
To foster the collaborations these communities form through open-source projects for open science, we are partnering with Mozilla at MozFest to deliver the eLife Open Science Soapbox lunch on Sunday, October 29. We are pleased to facilitate several other sessions throughout the weekend, including discussions relating to blockchain for research, preprints and open code for research.
eLife Open Science Soapbox
Sunday, October 29, 2017
12:30pm–1:45pm
Level 8 – Boardroom
Would you like to contribute to efforts to promote open, transparent and reproducible science? Grab your lunch and head to the eLife Open Science Soapbox to discover opportunities to get involved.
Are you leading a project, or planning to start one, that will help researchers to discover, share, consume or evaluate open research? We invite you to share details about your project and ways in which the community could help you in a two-minute talk. Some slots are available for sign up before the event:
Join us on floor 8 from 12:30pm to sign up for a soapbox slot. Talks will start at 12:45pm.
For more details, please contact Naomi by email to innovation@elifesciences.org, on the MozFest Slack channel (@naomipenfold.elife), or via Github.
Blockchain for research: hype or opportunity?
Sunday, October 29, 2017
11:00am–12:00pm
The Shed | Decentralization space
Join this interactive workshop to explore how blockchain technology can be applied for public good, understand trust and integrity issues in scientific research and debate whether blockchain is a potential technological solution to these issues. This will be of particular interest to attendees with experience in blockchain development and/or research, as well as those looking to learn, and we welcome anyone with creative flair or with a penchant for post-its!
Live session notes: https://bit.ly/mozfest-575-notes
Open Science Public Park
Saturday, October 28 and Sunday, October 29, 2017
All day
The Gallery | Open Innovation space
The Open Science Public Park will be open all weekend as a space for contributors to open-source open-science projects to meet, work and relax. Centred around a ‘wish tree’, we invite you to share details of your own project and pledge contributions to others by completing and hanging ‘wishes’.
Join us at 11:15am–12:15pm on Saturday for our dedicated slot to explore and interact at the park, or visit anytime during the weekend. Come to the park to sign up for Sunday lunchtime’s eLife Open Science Soapbox.
Templates for the project and contributor forms are available here: https://bit.ly/mozfest-574-docs.
Other events
We look forward to co-facilitating the following sessions:
- Changing the scientific publishing ecosystem: preprints and beyond (Saturday, 2:00pm–3:00pm) — a workshop exploring the use of preprints in journal clubs, and tools for doing so, led by Samantha Hindle and Daniela Sarderi (ASAPbio ambassadors).
- Science needs Open Source code – culture shift innovation workshop (Sunday, 3:15pm–4:15pm) — a discussion exploring open-source code in research, and fears and concerns around sharing code, led by Yo Yehudi (InterMine).