Dr. Emily Lescak was the former Events Fund Program Manager (2020-2021) at Code for Science and Society. She is currently the Senior Research Community Officer at Wikimedia Foundation.
Emily Lescak, Stefanie Butland Stefanie Butland, Community Manager for rOpenSci, led a question and answer session for event fund grantees and fiscally-sponsored project leaders focused on community calls. rOpenSci community calls are online
We host a seminar series for grantees so that they can strengthen their skills in multiple aspects of event organization and implementation, including community calls, virtual event moderation and technical support, and accessibility.
Code for Science and Society is happy to announce its first cohort of Event Fund grant recipients! We appreciate the response to our first request for proposals from members of the data science
Happy new year! I'm working with the advisory committee and CS&S staff to finalize the next RFP and application questions. Stay tuned for their release later this month!
Next week is the JROST 2020 Conference, designed for communities who are building, maintaing, and advocating for open tools to support research and collaboration. I'll be representing the Event Fund at two sessions
This week, I've been working on optional programming for grantees focused on community calls, Zoom moderating and tech support, and language accessibility. A summary blog post will be posted following each session.
This week, I submitted a proposal for a panel discussion for the upcoming Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools Conference, to be held December 14th-16th. The panel would focus on supporting open research
This week, we made progress on the impact survey that we'll distribute to attendees of funded events and the grant agreement. We're also revising our request for proposals and applications in advance of
Co-Authors: Emily Lescak (Code for Science & Society, United States), Rachael Ainsworth (Software Sustainability Institute, United Kingdom), Sarvenaz Sarabipour (Johns Hopkins University, United States), Vinodh Ilangovan (Aarhus University, Denmark), Iryna Kuchma (Electronic Information
This week, I met with our program officer at the Moore Foundation about our progress and plans for the next year. Robin, Danielle, and I met to discuss advisory committee rotations. This fall,
This week, I had two meetings with the selection committee to make funding recommendations. We’ll be meeting again next week to finalize the list of proposals they would like to advance for
This week, Robin and I started working on a request for determination for our impact surveys for the OHSU IRB. Kari and I also met to review slides for next week’s CS&