Spread the word about the Open Neuroscience and ask people to add their projects to the website

[amchagas]

One thing that has been working quite well to get projects added to the website is to ask developers/creators to add their projects to the website themselves.

This is good because:

• Projects added have the best possible description
• It allows us to interact with people
• Spreads the herculean effort of tracking and adding all these new projects to the website.

To do this we have created a template message that can be used to contact people via email/github issue. It should be tweaked/tailored a bit for each project, but it has been giving positive results. the template can be found here

[ChucklesOnGitHub]

I was thinking of a few other ways in which to promote awareness and how people can contribute:

• Have a slide available that people can include in their talks to say "This exists, it's cool, come join!".
• On twitter have a message or a challenge or a poll periodically
  • a message for ppl to tell othres with similar interests about openneuro.
  • to collaborate on a specific effort. (Like write up so and so)
  • poll (favorite project? Name new projects we haven’t covered? Let’s put xx country on the visitor map!!)
• Reach out to neuro societies in different countries?

[amchagas]

hi @ChucklesOnGitHub ! These sound like good actionable things.

The first and last items seem straight forward, and maybe we could start with those?

I can check if one of our contacts (TReND in Africa, etc) has a list of Neurosocieties somewhere...

In the meantime, try to think of a clever way to do periodic things on twitter without burdening one person to manually update things over and over?