D2.11: Community building: Impact of development workshops, dissemination and training activities, years 2 and 3

[minrk]

• WP2: Community Building, Training, Dissemination, Exploitation, and Outreach
• Lead Institution: Université Paris-Sud
• Due: 2018-08-31 (month 36)
• Nature: Report
• Task: T2.3 (T2.3: Community Building: Development Workshops #26)
• Proposal: p. 38
• Final report (sources)

An important key to the success of the ODK project is linked to its ability to foster a community in the spirit of the open source projects it is built on. Part of this relies on the organization and participation to scientific and development events of many different scales and objectives. Following up on D2.2 (#42) for year 1, we report here on more than fifty events we have been part of during year 2 and 3 of the project. This includes:

• the (co)organization of 13 development workshops;
• the (co)organization of 17 training workshops -- or sessions within larger events -- including 4 in developing countries;
• the (co)organization of 9 community building workshops, 4 of which targeted at women;
• the organization of 6 research workshops or sessions;
• communications at and participation to many external events.

We describe each event with its specific goals and explain the exact implication of ODK in the organization and realization of the event. We give a general overview of the impact of single events, thus drawing a picture of ODK impact as a whole, and describe future directions for the year to come.

[bpilorget]

#46 was merged into #36 with 3rd amendment of the contract

[VivianePons]

Dear all, a folder for the report is available here: https://github.com/OpenDreamKit/OpenDreamKit/tree/master/WP2/D2.11

Please, go and add all of your dissemination activities using the format of the default event there.

[ClementPernet]

I've added 2 linbox dev meetings to the report.

[olexandr-konovalov]

I've added a couple of sentences to CICM 2017 entry in c958788.

[nthiery]

I finally submitted the report, after adding a few more info and improving a bit the layout.

[nthiery]

The whole thing is quite something; I gather the EU will be impressed.
Thank you everyone for your contributions and Viviane for collecting them all. More importantly, thank you for all the great events you made possible!

[fangohr]

It is quite impressive! We could make more of this: a timeline, plot of events on map, an animation with one frame per event,... creative data masters; what can we do? ;)

Many thanks to Vivianne, Nicolas and all to put this together; looks great!

[nthiery]

It is quite impressive! We could make more of this: a timeline, plot of events on map, an animation with one frame per event,... creative data masters; what can we do? ;)

Right! Maybe a map, endowed with two sliders to specify a time range, and a default behavior of the sliders moving through time with a one month window to animate it? Produced with ipyleaflet, and export to "html+javascript"? Now this raises a very good point: our data around events is spread around our infrastructure and not always in machine readable format. So there is duplication (which means more work for organizers), we can't reuse it much, and not all of it is easily discoverable. Presumably we should have an _event folder on our web page, with metadata, pictures, and event description, that would feed our calendar, our blog, the above visualisation, and our report. Volunteers to setup the infrastructure? I presumably could ask our admin -- when we will finally be able to hire one -- to curate the data itself; a good occasion to learn our toolset :-)

[IzabelaFaguet]

Accepted by the EU on December 5th.