A year ago Mozilla Science Lab launched, get an update on progress | Opensource.com

" ... The Science Lab was created to serve as a neutral broker and hub for the open science community—a means of bridging the gap between the early adopters and the many scientists who understand the value of open science, but who have not yet (for a number of reasons) mapped that understanding onto their day-to-day workflow. We strive to connect and support the activity of the open research community and its diverse stakeholders (researchers, coders, funders, publishers) to work towards the common goal of making research more like the web: open, collaborative and accessible. With the push for clearer means for the community to get involved (and stay engaged), we’ll be testing out a few different approaches, from more structured followups after training to an online forum for questions, and even lightweight teaching kits. We’re also looking to explicitly tie these approaches into our educational efforts, so that following a Software Carpentry bootcamp there’s a clearer way to get involved, build on the skills learned and contribute. Another dimension of this is looking at how to cultivate opportunities for the community to contribute to technically, as well as learn about (and hopefully use and test) open tools and technologies for research. But we can’t do it alone, and we’d love your input. Our next community call on June 12 will focus on precisely this issue: engagement. Do join us. We’d love to hear your thoughts ... Mozilla is perhaps best known for its technical work—disrupting the browser monopoly with the launch of the project in the late 90s, and working to provide users with choice and to drive innovation on the web ever since. Beyond that, the Mozilla community is deeply steeped in openness—from source code to culture, as well as transparency, access, and interoperability. These core values are included our Manifesto, and they apply to all of our work across the organization.  The question Science Lab is faced with is: How can we best translate those strengths and values for the sciences to address the bottlenecks slowing down research? ... Over the last year we’ve engaged in three major pilots that not only bridge the scientific and technical communities, but provide tools, best practices and resources to enable new ways of doing science on the web. They include exploring the notion of code review in science with PLOS Computational Biology (currently in phase two, written about here and here); our Code as a Research Object collaboration with GitHub, figshare and Zenodo to explore code citation and discovery; and work on the Open Access Button, which we wrote about recently ..."