Planning for the OpenScienceKE Hackathon to be held on 30th and 31st August at KENET Training room, JKML, UoN.
Having trained on Open Science tools in our last workshop, this stage of the project seeks to foster collaboration among workshop attendees through a two-day hackathon, where they will get to experience the power of the wisdom of the crowds. In addition, this hackathon will afford the participants to further solidify their skills while addressing questions of interest to the Open Science community in Kenya, and Africa as a whole.
We are in the process of developing ideas for the hackathon. Our initial thoughts can be accessed in the issues section. Hop in there to comment on the current ideas or suggest one by creating a new issue. The current ideas are:
- Exploring the status of open science in Kenya through literature search and data mining.
- Requires writing and ability to search literature
- Data mining requires experience in R or Python for data analysis
- A resource highlighting journals that offer low-cost open access options for the students to publish.
- Basic writing and literature search
- What else can we explore?
The first project can be handled by two groups: a literature search and data mining.
Reach out if you can help out in any of the projects.
We looking for projects that:
- Can be tackled within two days
- Can be tackled by participants with entry to intermediate coding skills
- Address a Bioinformatics or Open Science question. Should not, however, require highly specialized Bioinformatics skills
All content of this repo is released under the CC-BY 4.0 license
We hereby acknowledge the funding for this project from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation through Mozilla Science Lab Mini-Grants.
The hackathon venue and computing resource support from Kenya Education Network (KENET) is also acknowledged.
For questions, suggestions or to participate, reach me via:
- Twitter: @calkibet
- Email: kipkuruis [at] hotmail.com