diff --git a/_site/search.json b/_site/search.json index 0f49dd9..a9561a3 100644 --- a/_site/search.json +++ b/_site/search.json @@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ "href": "mentors/activities.html", "title": "Current Activities", "section": "", - "text": "Please join us: nominate yourself in this Google Form by Sept 23!\n“Is this for me?” 5-min slides\nThrough facilitation and practical training for mentoring, teaching, and coaching, Openscapes will help NMFS mentors strengthen skills and strategies to support colleagues with diverse comfort levels with software, coding, and data, while also strengthening relationships across centers/offices. Through this, mentors will identify and co-create on common resources and activities – such as code or databases for identical tasks or community developed standard practices – so there is less reinventing at each center.\nThe FY24 mentor cohort will start with a mentors-only Openscapes Champions cohort (facilated bi-weekly group meetings) during which Openscapes will guide the mentor cohort in discussing the needs and challenges for adoption of Open Science in NMFS and to develop actions to take. The facilitated meeting are vitual and twice monthly. Mentors will also collaborate asynchronously (e.g. Google Chat, GitHub). During the fall session, mentors will learn and practice coaching and mentoring skills in preparation for the winter Champions cohorts. We will also start identifying cross-center roadblocks that mentors can collaborate on throughout the next years.\n\n\n\nDates: Twice monthly starting October 17, 2023\nTimes: 12:00 - 1:30pm PT / 3:00 - 4:30 pm ET < note revised time\nLocation: Remotely, via Google Meet\n\n\n\nMentor Calls are when we convene as a group to learn and plan. Agendas are accessible to Cohort participants in our Cohort Google Folder; they are also an archive of our live notetaking.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDate\nMentor Call Topics\n\n\n\n\n10/17\n1. Openscapes mindset for mentors: What does it mean to be a mentor? What does Open Science at NMFS mean? \n\n\n10/31\n2. Developing strong Open and Collaborative Communities \n\n\n11/14\n3. The art of teaching skills: running GitHub clinics \n\n\n11/28\n4. Facilitating discussions and developing team culture \n\n\n12/12\n5. Developing technical tutorials and teaching colleagues \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSeaside Chats are for small-group coworking in weeks alternating between Mentor Calls. Topics are to reflect with your other center mentors in-between cross-center cohort calls. Note particants from different centers or offices can have Seaside chats together. We will organize our Seaside chats after the first mentor calls.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDate\nSeaside co-working sessions\n\n\n\n\nWeek of 10/23\nBegin work on an Open Science Pathway for your center, office or program. Where are you at? Where would you like to be? Do you have the info you need to answer this?\n\n\nWeek of 11/6\nKeep working Open Science Pathway for your center, office or program with specific discussions of needs/challenges\n\n\nWeek of 11/20\nCross-FMC discussions of Open Science Pathways and work on shared organizing with GitHub\n\n\nWeek of 12/4.\nDiscuss ideas and plans for coordinating & engaging staff in Open Science goals" + "text": "Please join us: nominate yourself in this Google Form by Sept 23!\n“Is this for me?” 5-min slides\nThrough facilitation and practical training for mentoring, teaching, and coaching, Openscapes will help NMFS mentors strengthen skills and strategies to support colleagues with diverse comfort levels with software, coding, and data, while also strengthening relationships across centers/offices. Through this, mentors will identify and co-create on common resources and activities – such as code or databases for identical tasks or community developed standard practices – so there is less reinventing at each center.\nThe FY24 mentor cohort will start with a mentors-only Openscapes Champions cohort (facilated bi-weekly group meetings) during which Openscapes will guide the mentor cohort in discussing the needs and challenges for adoption of Open Science in NMFS and to develop actions to take. The facilitated meeting are vitual and twice monthly. Mentors will also collaborate asynchronously (e.g. Google Chat, GitHub). During the fall session, mentors will learn and practice coaching and mentoring skills in preparation for the winter Champions cohorts. We will also start identifying cross-center roadblocks that mentors can collaborate on throughout the next years.\n\n\n\nDates: Twice monthly starting October 17, 2023\nTimes: 12:00 - 1:30pm PT / 3:00 - 4:30 pm ET < note revised time\nLocation: Remotely, via Google Meet\n\n\n\nMentor Calls are when we convene as a group to learn and plan. Agendas are accessible to Cohort participants in our Cohort Google Folder; they are also an archive of our live notetaking.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDate\nMentor Call Topics\n\n\n\n\n10/17\n1. Openscapes mindset for mentors: What does it mean to be a mentor? What does Open Science at NMFS mean? \n\n\n10/31\n2. Developing strong Open and Collaborative Communities \n\n\n11/14\n3. The art of teaching skills: running GitHub clinics \n\n\n11/28\n4. Supporting teams to tackle workflow change through the Champions Program \n\n\n12/12\n5. Developing technical tutorials and teaching colleagues \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSeaside Chats are for small-group coworking in weeks alternating between Mentor Calls. Topics are to reflect with your other center mentors in-between cross-center cohort calls. Note particants from different centers or offices can have Seaside chats together. We will organize our Seaside chats after the first mentor calls.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDate\nSeaside co-working sessions\n\n\n\n\nWeek of 10/23\nBegin work on an Open Science Pathway for your center, office or program. Where are you at? Where would you like to be? Do you have the info you need to answer this?\n\n\nWeek of 11/6\nKeep working Open Science Pathway for your center, office or program with specific discussions of needs/challenges\n\n\nWeek of 11/20\nCross-FMC discussions of Open Science Pathways and work on shared organizing with GitHub\n\n\nWeek of 12/4.\nDiscuss ideas and plans for coordinating & engaging staff in Open Science goals" }, { "objectID": "mentors/activities.html#previous-activities", @@ -263,20 +263,27 @@ "href": "mentors/mentor-calls.html#call-1-openscapes-mindset-for-mentors", "title": "Mentor Call Skills", "section": "Call 1 Openscapes mindset for mentors", - "text": "Call 1 Openscapes mindset for mentors\n\nWhat does it mean to be a mentor? What does Open Science at NMFS mean?\n\nSpeaking up/sharing about yourself for 4 minutes - a challenge for some to take up that space, a challenge for others to limit to that space.\nKeeping on time - as a speaker and as a timekeeper\nListening: giving space/silence. Not jumping in - get comfortable with discomfort\nLive contributing to collaborative google doc - hear from more voices than we could only out loud, both time-wise and due to power structures\nLearned emoji shortcut - not frivolous; a way to connect, side conversations and encouragement to build relationships\nSaw us adjusting time on the fly in the doc and verbally - open facilitation\n\n\n\nYour tasks before next Call\n\nSeaside Chat: Organize 1 hour with mentors at your center/office (or other people from other centers/offices), to discuss how you could improve workflows with open science in your own work, your own center, or more broadly. You could also discuss these readings \nReadings: Read Shifting institutional culture to develop climate solutions with Open Science (2023 preprint) and How coaching skills have made us better open data science mentors (May 2023), both coauthored by NMFS Mentors, (and <20 mins combined). \n(optional) Attend Coworking. We’ll send a recurring calendar invite for the weeks between Mentors Calls, Tuesdays, 12:30 - 1:30 pm PT. (find your local time). On Oct 24, Eli Holmes will report on PARR and the new 2022 memo and changes to our data workflows that are being proposed, and discuss how these changes will impact staff. (Eli is the NMFS Public Access of Research Results (PARR) representative on the NOAA PARR working group.)" + "text": "Call 1 Openscapes mindset for mentors\nWhat does it mean to be a mentor? What does Open Science at NMFS mean?\n\nSpeaking up/sharing about yourself for 4 minutes - a challenge for some to take up that space, a challenge for others to limit to that space.\nKeeping on time - as a speaker and as a timekeeper\nListening: giving space/silence. Not jumping in - get comfortable with discomfort\nLive contributing to collaborative google doc - hear from more voices than we could only out loud, both time-wise and due to power structures\nLearned emoji shortcut - not frivolous; a way to connect, side conversations and encouragement to build relationships\nSaw us adjusting time on the fly in the doc and verbally - open facilitation\n\n\nYour tasks before next Call\n\nSeaside Chat: Organize 1 hour with mentors at your center/office (or other people from other centers/offices), to discuss how you could improve workflows with open science in your own work, your own center, or more broadly. You could also discuss these readings \nReadings: Read Shifting institutional culture to develop climate solutions with Open Science (2023 preprint) and How coaching skills have made us better open data science mentors (May 2023), both coauthored by NMFS Mentors, (and <20 mins combined). \n(optional) Attend Coworking. We’ll send a recurring calendar invite for the weeks between Mentors Calls, Tuesdays, 12:30 - 1:30 pm PT. (find your local time). On Oct 24, Eli Holmes will report on PARR and the new 2022 memo and changes to our data workflows that are being proposed, and discuss how these changes will impact staff. (Eli is the NMFS Public Access of Research Results (PARR) representative on the NOAA PARR working group.)" }, { "objectID": "mentors/mentor-calls.html#call-2-developing-strong-open-and-collaborative-communities", "href": "mentors/mentor-calls.html#call-2-developing-strong-open-and-collaborative-communities", "title": "Mentor Call Skills", "section": "Call 2 Developing strong open and collaborative Communities", - "text": "Call 2 Developing strong open and collaborative Communities\n\nWhat skills can we develop to support each other? What are the elements of successful open communities? What NOAA & NMFS open science communities do we like to participate in?\n\nActive listening and asking powerful questions - coaching to empower people to find their own solutions rather than suggesting our ideas of what they should do\nVulnerability, yes! Shame, no - learning and building trust by getting curious with each other\nLeveraging the experiences of a community - Kathryn, Ady & Christine presenting\nYou don’t have to be an expert to teach - Christine screensharing an efficiency tip she just learned\nSharing open resources for reuse - slides for 12-minute, 5-minute, or 1-slide only presentations\nCrowdsourcing resources - a list of NOAA & NMFS communities we recommend\nMaking time for live clarification - open facilitation ’til we all know the plan\nBringing attention to or sharing gratitude for a colleague - coaching kudos and examples of raising people up\n\n\n\nYour tasks before next Call\n\nSeaside Chat: Organize 1 hour with mentors at your center/office (or other people from other centers/offices), to discuss how you could improve workflows with open science in your own work, your own center, or more broadly. You could also discuss these readings\n\nContinue to add to ‘seeking mentors for Seaside Chat’ in the ‘Fall 2023 Openscapes mentors cohort’ sheet\nShare your Seaside Chat report outs in our doc\n\nReadings: Read 19 reasons why technologists don’t want to work at your government agency, Ben Balter\nOptional themed seaside chat. In between the full cohort calls, Eli will hold optional Seaside Chats open to any mentors. We’ll discuss Open Data and Open Science issues affecting NOAA Fisheries. Wed, Nov 8, Eli will give a brief update on what is happening at the NOAA level re Open Science. We’ve sent calendar invites." + "text": "Call 2 Developing strong open and collaborative Communities\nWhat skills can we develop to support each other? What are the elements of successful open communities? 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You could also discuss these readings\n\nContinue to add to ‘seeking mentors for Seaside Chat’ in the ‘Fall 2023 Openscapes mentors cohort’ sheet\nShare your Seaside Chat report outs in our doc\n\nReadings: Read 19 reasons why technologists don’t want to work at your government agency, Ben Balter\nOptional themed seaside chat. In between the full cohort calls, Eli will hold optional Seaside Chats open to any mentors. We’ll discuss Open Data and Open Science issues affecting NOAA Fisheries. Wed, Nov 8, Eli will give a brief update on what is happening at the NOAA level re Open Science. 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Mon, Nov 20 1-2pm PT, Julie and Eli will give an overview of the Openscapes Champions Program, our goals for the Feb-Mar 2024 NMFS Champions Cohorts and how this fits into the broader plan for NMFS Open Science." + "text": "Call 3 Experiential learning\nWe converged on open science challenges topics and people who want to work together and we learned about and practiced experiential learning.\n\nPitching ideas - to connect with colleagues\nListening - listening to understand, avoiding solutioneering\nAsking powerful questions - often begin with “what”, “what else?”, never yes/no\nBreaking down activities into teaching concepts - identifying and letting go of extra topics\nDo - Reflect - Apply approach to teaching\nTime constraints - how constraints both for planning time and teaching time can help determine scope of an activity\n\n\nYour tasks before next Call\n\nSeaside Chat: Have and report-out from your small-group Seaside Chats, building from topics in the Fall 2023 Openscapes mentors sheet\n\nWhat help do you need to arrange these?\nShare your meeting time so others can join. Options: post to our Google Space, Mentors Calendar, or add to column H in the Fall 2023 Openscapes mentors sheet.\nShare your Seaside Chat report outs in the SeasideChats_ReportOuts [ nmfs-openscapes-mentors ] doc.\n\nOpen Science News: Share your Open Science news in the Open Science/Open Data Weekly Updates doc\nReadings: Tips and Tools for Gentle R Introductions (slides, by Allison Horst)\nOptional themed seaside chat - Nov 20, 1-2pm PT. In between the full cohort calls, we will hold optional themed Seaside Chats open to any mentors. Mon, Nov 20 1-2pm PT, Julie and Eli will give an overview of the Openscapes Champions Program, our goals for the Feb-Mar 2024 NMFS Champions Cohorts and how this fits into the broader plan for NMFS Open Science." + }, + { + "objectID": "mentors/mentor-calls.html#call-4-supporting-teams-to-tackle-workflow-change-through-the-champions-program", + "href": "mentors/mentor-calls.html#call-4-supporting-teams-to-tackle-workflow-change-through-the-champions-program", + "title": "Mentor Call Skills", + "section": "Call 4 Supporting teams to tackle workflow change through the Champions Program", + "text": "Call 4 Supporting teams to tackle workflow change through the Champions Program\nWe followed up on making connections through topic-based Seaside Chats, practiced skills for presenting and iterating new-to-us material to different audiences.\n\nCalendaring - adding a shared group to a Google Calendar invite\nPitching to different audiences - how to reframe messaging and reuse slides to communicate\nSharing imperfect work - share early to co-design with feedback\nRapid prototyping - incorporating feedback live from 1st time, to present minutes later for 2nd time\nPresenting someone else’s slides - how to let go of how you might have made the slides – and iterate them to make them work more for you\nPresenting with little prep time - saying things out loud as a way to test and iterate\nAsking questions and giving feedback - shaping Champions program comms/engagement together. Balancing keeping what works, improvement, and time.\nFeedback framework - elicit more helpful feedback using explicit guides, from The Carpentries Instructor Training:\n\nContent\n\nPositive\nConstructive\n\nDelivery\n\nPositive\nConstructive\n\n\n\n\nYour tasks before next Call\n\nSeaside Chat: join or host a topic-based Seaside Chat \n\nYou can find and add Seaside Chats on the NMFS Openscapes Mentors Calendar and post to our Google Space\nReport out in SeasideChats_ReportOuts [ nmfs-openscapes-mentors ]\nContinue to add to \"seeking mentors for Seaside Chat\" (Fall 2023 Openscapes mentors cohort sheet)\n\nOpen Science / Open Data News: Share yours inDRAFT of OS/OD Weekly Updates and reuse/remix from each other to share back out in your newsletters\nReadings: \n\nAgile teams don't work without psychological safety skills\nThe changing skill-set needed for project leaders\n\nOptional themed seaside chat. Wednesday, December 6, 3:30 - 4:30 ET / 12:30 - 1:30 PT (30 mins earlier than last time). This session will be on Cloud Computing. You will get a brief introduction to JupyterHubs, which is a popular platform for cloud computing. You’ll get to play around on a JupyterHub set up on NOAA’s Azure account. The hub has both RStudio and Jupyter Notebooks loaded. We will discuss how cloud computing platforms streamline and accelerate open science by increasing reproducibility and removing the “set-up” phase of a computing environment." } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/_site/sitemap.xml b/_site/sitemap.xml index 9365d24..b39a0fd 100644 --- a/_site/sitemap.xml +++ b/_site/sitemap.xml @@ -62,10 +62,10 @@ https://nmfs-openscapes.github.io/mentors/activities.html - 2023-11-01T23:18:51.848Z + 2023-11-30T16:34:09.364Z https://nmfs-openscapes.github.io/mentors/mentor-calls.html - 2023-11-21T21:38:18.390Z + 2023-11-30T17:02:45.072Z diff --git a/mentors/mentor-calls.qmd b/mentors/mentor-calls.qmd index 7c5dae9..46cc028 100644 --- a/mentors/mentor-calls.qmd +++ b/mentors/mentor-calls.qmd @@ -13,19 +13,24 @@ alone" to "open science is something I support in others". ## Call 1 Openscapes mindset for mentors -### What does it mean to be a mentor? What does Open Science at NMFS mean? +What does it mean to be a mentor? What does Open Science at NMFS mean? - **Speaking up/sharing about yourself for 4 minutes** - a challenge for some to take up that space, a challenge for others to limit to that space. + - **Keeping on time** - as a speaker and as a timekeeper + - **Listening: giving space/silence. Not jumping in** - get comfortable with discomfort + - **Live contributing to collaborative google doc** - hear from more voices than we could only out loud, both time-wise and due to power structures + - **Learned emoji shortcut** - not frivolous; a way to connect, side conversations and encouragement to build relationships + - **Saw us adjusting time on the fly in the doc and verbally** - open facilitation @@ -54,23 +59,32 @@ alone" to "open science is something I support in others". ## Call 2 Developing strong open and collaborative Communities -### What skills can we develop to support each other? What are the elements of successful open communities? What NOAA & NMFS open science communities do we like to participate in? +What skills can we develop to support each other? What are the elements +of successful open communities? What NOAA & NMFS open science +communities do we like to participate in? - **Active listening and asking powerful questions** - coaching to empower people to find their own solutions rather than suggesting our ideas of what they should do + - **Vulnerability, yes! Shame, no** - learning and building trust by getting curious with each other + - **Leveraging the experiences of a community** - Kathryn, Ady & Christine presenting + - **You don't have to be an expert to teach** - Christine screensharing an efficiency tip she just learned + - **Sharing open resources for reuse** - slides for 12-minute, 5-minute, or 1-slide only presentations + - **Crowdsourcing resources** - a list of NOAA & NMFS communities we recommend + - **Making time for live clarification** - open facilitation 'til we all know the plan + - **Bringing attention to or sharing gratitude for a colleague** - coaching kudos and examples of raising people up @@ -95,14 +109,15 @@ alone" to "open science is something I support in others". ## Call 3 Experiential learning -### **We converged on open science challenges topics and people who want to work together** and we **learned about and practiced experiential learning.** +We converged on open science challenges topics and people who want to +work together and we learned about and practiced experiential learning. - **Pitching ideas** - to connect with colleagues - **Listening** - listening to understand, avoiding solutioneering -- **Asking powerful questions** - often begin with \"what\", \"what - else?\", never yes/no +- **Asking powerful questions** - often begin with "what", "what + else?", never yes/no - **Breaking down activities into teaching concepts** - identifying and letting go of extra topics @@ -140,3 +155,82 @@ alone" to "open science is something I support in others". overview of the Openscapes Champions Program, our goals for the Feb-Mar 2024 NMFS Champions Cohorts and how this fits into the broader plan for NMFS Open Science. + +## Call 4 Supporting teams to tackle workflow change through the Champions Program + +We followed up on making connections through topic-based Seaside Chats, +practiced skills for presenting and iterating new-to-us material to +different audiences. + +- **Calendaring** - adding a shared group to a Google Calendar invite + +- **Pitching to different audiences** - how to reframe messaging and + reuse slides to communicate + +- **Sharing imperfect work** - share early to co-design with feedback + +- **Rapid prototyping** - incorporating feedback live from 1st time, + to present minutes later for 2nd time + +- **Presenting someone else's slides** - how to let go of how you + might have made the slides -- and iterate them to make them work + more for you + +- **Presenting with little prep time** - saying things out loud as a + way to test and iterate + +- **Asking questions and giving feedback** - shaping Champions program + comms/engagement together. Balancing keeping what works, + improvement, and time. + +- **Feedback framework** - elicit more helpful feedback using explicit + guides, from [The Carpentries Instructor + Training](https://carpentries.github.io/instructor-training/index.html): + + - Content + - Positive + - Constructive + - Delivery + - Positive + - Constructive + +### Your tasks before next Call + +1. **Seaside Chat:** join or host a [topic-based Seaside + Chat](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hbjcOaMPirCJrh4Hr8fEtJsLr4WbbSKBmo-9yQgRJr4/edit#gid=0)  + + a. You can find and add Seaside Chats on the [NMFS Openscapes + Mentors + Calendar](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=Y181OGVjNjkzOGQzYjJjZTNhMzk2YzhlNGNhMGMzNzUzODUyOWVjZjRiMmQxODM5MDA0ZmMwMjU5YWQxYjc5YzY2QGdyb3VwLmNhbGVuZGFyLmdvb2dsZS5jb20) + and post to our Google Space + b. Report out in [SeasideChats_ReportOuts \[ + nmfs-openscapes-mentors + \]](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yqqPZbZRHgD1qjoiu67r9LqB9LK7QZuEaidVjRTNxzc/edit#heading=h.vsvqf3xcxomp) + c. Continue to add to \"seeking mentors for Seaside Chat\" ([Fall + 2023 Openscapes mentors + cohort](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/1hbjcOaMPirCJrh4Hr8fEtJsLr4WbbSKBmo-9yQgRJr4/edit) + sheet) + +2. **Open Science / Open Data News**: Share yours in[DRAFT of OS/OD + Weekly + Updates](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FPei7lBc54VwzZK2qCT9cnrU8-ISZbtQuP2rkg3y3Nc/edit?usp=sharing) + and reuse/remix from each other to share back out in your + newsletters + +3. **Readings**:  + + 1. [Agile teams don\'t work without psychological safety + skills](https://hbr.org/2022/02/agile-doesnt-work-without-psychological-safety) + + 2. [The changing skill-set needed for project + leaders](https://hbr.org/2022/03/managers-cant-do-it-all) + +4. **Optional themed seaside chat.** Wednesday, December 6, 3:30 - 4:30 + ET / 12:30 - 1:30 PT (30 mins earlier than last time). This session + will be on Cloud Computing. You will get a brief introduction to + JupyterHubs, which is a popular platform for cloud computing. You'll + get to play around on a JupyterHub set up on NOAA's Azure account. + The hub has both RStudio and Jupyter Notebooks loaded. We will + discuss how cloud computing platforms streamline and accelerate open + science by increasing reproducibility and removing the "set-up" + phase of a computing environment.