Moving on from Mozilla – Medium
lterrat's bookmarks 2017-02-25
Summary:
"After building out our suite of programs and taking the Mozilla Science program to the next level, it’s time for me to step back, move on, and give those programs space to grow.
Growing Mozilla’s stake in open science
In 2013 Mozilla asked me for to build their first science program. Together with one other staff member and a small budget, we made massive strides. We:
- Worked with over 5,000 researchers globally through a mix of trainings, hackathons and community calls in our first year.
- Scaled the team to six — and brought in over $5m in new funding — all while firmly establishing the science program as a key initiative at Mozilla.
- Launched the Mozilla Fellowship for Science as a way to engage future leaders in open research through paid, 10-month position.
- Shipped working prototypes with GitHub, figshare and Zenodo to make code more discoverable and citable, built badging solutions to recognize data and code contributions with BioMed Central, PLOS, ORCID and the Wellcome Trust, and pushed the limits of open code review.
- Piloted a training series around “working open” as ways to mobilize and support the community through cohort-based peer-to-peer learning."