Resources & Communities for Outreach & Training

2021-09-09 ITCR TOW call

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ITCR TOW Group

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Rough Organization of Slide Deck

• Start with mostly outreach resources, end with mostly training resources
• Please add your recommended resources to the deck (wherever they best fit)
• Be sure to include your name in the lower right corner

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Real goal today is discussion and expanding this list

Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement (CSCCE)

https://www.cscce.org/

Lou Woodley, Katie Pratt,

CSCCE

The Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement (CSCCE) champions the importance of human infrastructure for effective collaboration in STEM, providing training and support for the people who make scientific collaborations succeed at scale – scientific community managers.

We do this by:

• Developing and publishing resources including core frameworks, guidebooks and tip sheets that address core concepts in scientific community engagement: https://www.cscce.org/resources/
• Providing professional development opportunities including online trainings, webinars and consultancy: https://www.cscce.org/trainings/

CSCCE – supporting scientific community mangers | CSCCE.org

A research and training center to support scientific community managers

• Convening a community of practice of over 300 community managers in STEM, where practitioners can crowdsource solutions and peer support as well as access free programming: https://www.cscce.org/get-involved/
• Conducting research to characterize scientific community managers and the communities they support: https://www.cscce.org/research/

Community programming

• Slack discussions – a range of public and private channels to discuss all aspects of community-building in STEM.
• Monthly community calls – 11am EST on the third Wednesday of each month (See https://www.cscce.org/calendar/ for up-to-date information). Community calls are open to both members and non-members.
• Working groups – Members work together on specific projects which provide opportunities to enhance their own community management roles.
• Special interest groups (SIGs) - Group members connect more informally to share resources and mutual support. Current CSCCE SIGs focus on data science, open research, and diversity, equity and inclusion.
• Co-authoring materials - CSCCE creates regular opportunities for community members to co-author materials, blog posts, and other outputs in collaboration with staff and other members.

Our community of practice supports community managers in learning together

Join us! Visit cscce.org/get-involved/ and request an invitation to our Slack workspace.

CSCCE – supporting scientific community mangers | CSCCE.org

CSCCE resources

CSCCE creates resources for, and in collaboration with, STEM community managers. Some examples:

CSCCE – supporting scientific community mangers | CSCCE.org

The CSCCE Community Participation Model

CSCCE Community Profiles

3-page snapshots of STEM communities

A 4-part guide to convening accessible, inclusive, and engaging virtual events

https://www.cscce.org/resources/

Core frameworks

Characterizing STEM communities

Hosting virtual events

CMX

• A company that brings together community / outreach professionals
• Has a definite corporate emphasis, but still useful for non-profits
• Hosts a lot of events
• Virtual events (even their premier ones) tend to be free.

https://cmxhub.com/

Dave C,

Interns and Mentorships: Outreachy, OLS, and CSSCE

• Outreachy
• Organization applications due this Friday
• Focused on Internships for Underrepresented Groups
• Next community application deadline is September 17
• US$6500 + Your time
• Open Life Science (OLS)
• Just started its 4th cohort this week
• Work with students / early career researchers to submit proposals
• CSCCE Community Engagement Fellowships
• Bi-annual fellowship program.
• Not clear when next program is starting.
• Participants get a thorough introduction to community building.

https://www.outreachy.org/ https://openlifesci.org/ https://www.cscce.org/cefp/

DC

Documentation resources

• How to make and organize written documentation/outreach/training: https://documentation.divio.com/
• Tools to help you manage documentation:
• Gitbook https://www.gitbook.com/
• Free for academics/nonprofits
• Readthedocs https://readthedocs.org/
• AsciiDoc https://asciidoc.org/index.html
• https://seaborn.pydata.org/examples/index.html - Example of useful documentation (from Dexter Pratt)
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• https://documentation.divio.com/

Mary G,

GOBLET

• Global training and education community
• Annual meeting
• Best practices
• Produce the Practical Guide and Critical Guide series at F1000Research

https://www.mygoblet.org/

Dave C,

ISCB Education

• Have a COSI at ISMB every year (2021, 2020)
• Significant collaboration with GOBLET

https://www.iscb.org/iscb-education-home

Dave C,

LifeSciTrainers.org

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A global community of practice for short-format training

in the life sciences

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Jason Williams

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Williams@cshl.edu

@JasonWilliamsNY

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• Slack channel started in November 2018

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• +439 members from 20+ countries and more than 14K slack messages exchanged

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• Monthly community calls on shared challenges, lessons, and trainer professional development

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• December 2021 meeting to help solidify challenges and global call to action

LifeSciTrainers.org

Goals and Vision

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• Promote individual trainers and give them voice

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• Promote and develop community standards learners can understand and trust

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• Foster community of practice for trainers across institutions, organizations and continents

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• Accelerate science by accelerating scientists

ITCR Training Network (ITCR UE5)

Making it easier for scientists to integrate cancer informatics into their workflows

• An ideal platform for ITCR projects that want to get started with training.
• Provide templates, best practices, and a publishing platform for training material for ITCR tools.
• Presenting at October 1 ITCR PI Call
• and you are encouraged to attend
• 2pm Eastern, WebEx

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https://www.itcrtraining.org/ https://www.itcrtraining.org/develop

Dave C, Carrie

ITCR Training Network (ITCR UE5)

• Courses that feature ITCR tools:
• Online courses on Leanpub and Coursera with standard structure/branding
• Available for free on Leanpub and for purchase on Coursera to further reach
• Learners can receive certificate of completion on both platforms
• Templates for tool developers to make similar courses - currently a work in progress but looking for feedback (git issues)
• Training Events
• Online - maybe in person last couple of years
• Looking for keynote speakers
• Automated video software to make videos from google slide decks

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https://www.itcrtraining.org/ https://www.itcrtraining.org/develop

Carrie,

ITCR Training Network (ITCR UE5)

• Current Courses:
• Leadership for Cancer Informatics Research
• target audience: PIs and lab leaders performing informatics cancer research
• Documentation and Usability
• target audience: ITCR tool/software developers
• Pending Courses:
• Data Management
• Reproducibility
• Events will start with these courses

https://www.itcrtraining.org/ https://www.itcrtraining.org/develop

Carrie,

What else? Thoughts? Discussion?

• What other resources and communities do you recommend for people working in training and outreach?
• Are there other resources and communities that are specifically useful for cancer informatics projects?
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Thank you!

If time allows: Directions for 2021-22?

• It’s a new year...
• What should we focus on / explore in the next year?

Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement (CSSCE)

• “a research and training center to support and study the emerging field of scientific community engagement.”
• As far as I know, this is the closest thing to a professional society that people working in science outreach have
• Lots of resources

https://www.cscce.org/

Dave C,

CSCCE Resources

• CSCCE Slack Workspace
• Lots of discussion covering the full range of outreach and training topics:
• #community - main channel, lots of questions and discussion. Some recent questions:
• Have you used an ASL interpreter and/or captioning service?
• Tips on creating impactful summaries of large documents?
• Event planning over the next few months?
• #data_science_sig, #diversity_inclusion_sig, #measuring_impact, #open_research_sig, #webinars_and_events
• Monthly calls
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Dave C,

https://www.cscce.org/

Life Science Trainers

• Short form training community for life science trainers
• Short form: Workshops, boot camps, etc
• A very active Slack channel
• Monthly community calls.
• First meeting is in December at CSHL.

https://lifescitrainers.org/

Dave C,