OBF Community Support Sponsorship - Comments/Feedback

[peterjc]

Blog post https://www.open-bio.org/2021/05/11/obf-community-support-sponsorship outlines a potential new grant programme, subject to approval by the OBF membership in a formal vote, which the OBF board would hope to launch this year.

This GitHub issue is to provide a public forum for community comments and feedback, especially from our membership.

You are also invited to email the OBF board directly https://www.open-bio.org/board/

Update: We would like comments in by Friday 4th 18 June 2021 (Malvika posted on OBF Slack).

[brianrepko]

Read through based on post on Slack. Very much in favor.

[malvikasharan]

Thank you @brianrepko! Really appreciate you commenting on this. 🙌

[mr-c]

Looks good to me as well. Somehow I missed the original announcement, so I've subscribed to the news feed http://news.open-bio.org/feed/

[malvikasharan]

Thank you @mr-c. Do we have this news feed listed somewhere? If not, it makes sense to add it in visible location on the website.

[mr-c]

Do we have this news feed listed somewhere? If not, it makes sense to add it in visible location on the website.

There's an icon on the bottom of the blog post:

Looks like it is part of the footer for every page.

[EstherPlomp]

Looks great!

The only thing that isn't clear to me was the following sentence:
"This mechanism will require the event organisers to have some sort of bank account or fiscal sponsor (e.g. a university staff member’s budget, a local hackerspace) where we can transfer the funds."

Does that include individual's bank accounts or would they have to go through an institute? Maybe that can be specified a bit more?

[peterjc]

@EstherPlomp I was thinking not an individual's personal account, but you're right this could be more explicit.

[kipkurui]

The Community Support Sponsorship is a welcome initiative that will reach underrepresented communities, and will ultimately increase OBF diversity. The document looks great!

[sbliven]

I'm reviewing this again for voting. I assume that the Code of Conduct requirement depends on #78 being accepted?

[hlapp]

@sbliven I assume you mean how does the CoC requirement depend on OBF's adoption of a CoC? Good question! As stated, the requirement is for the community event or activity in question to have a CoC policy. This is independent of OBF also having adopted a CoC or not. If and when OBF does have adopted a CoC, the question is would the CoC of the community event or activity have to be compatible with OBF's. The proposal does not answer this. (If the recipient group is already an OBF Affiliate, they would already be bound by the OBF's CoC.)

[nlharris]

Are there still action items here to be completed before this issue can be closed? If so, what exactly are they?

[hlapp]

I think this is complete.