Developing collective action campaigns for the neuroimaging community

[CooperSmout]

Project info

Title:

Developing collective action campaigns for the human neuroimaging community

Project lead:

Cooper Smout / @CooperSmout

Timezone:

UTC+10

Description:

Academia is trapped in a collective action problem: we all know there are better ways we could be doing things, but feel pressured to 'play the game' in order to survive a competitive career in science. Historically, collective action problems like this have been solved with collective action, i.e. the mass uptake of new behaviours that aim to further the group's interests. More recently, online conditional pledge platforms (e.g., Kickstarter) have demonstrated that collective action can be organised on a global scale with zero risk to users, serving to cut out middle-men and directly benefit the users themselves. At present, however, this strategy has yet to take hold in academia.

Project Free Our Knowledge (FOK) aims to rectify this by organising collective action in the research community. Using our platform, researchers can pledge to support open science practices, subject to there being a critical mass of support for the proposed behaviour. If the threshold is achieved, everyone who has pledged is contacted and directed to carry out the action together, thus motivating cultural change with minimal risk to individuals.

Link to project:
Website
Github
Twitter
Facebook

Mattermost handle:
@cooper_smout

Goals for the OHBM Brainhack

1. Open up a group discussion to determine everyone's interests
2. Figure out some focus-groups that are interested in similar objectives
3. Move into breakout rooms and develop the campaign ideas
4. Propose new campaigns by clicking 'New Issue' in Github and filling in the template
5. Return to the group and pitch our proposals
6. Comment on each others' proposals using the comments thread in Github
7. If we're happy with any particular proposals, we can also post them to the FOK website to start collecting signatures immediately.

Good first issues:

1. Read the project README to understand the project background, structure, and ways you can support/follow us
2. Read through the campaign proposals that have already been proposed and comment/react to any campaigns that you're interested in
3. If you have an idea for a campaign that hasn't yet been proposed, start thinking about what action you would like people to adopt and how many people you think should do it together. Then we can discuss this when we meet in the hackathon.

Skills:
No skills required, just a healthy desire for change (but would help if people can sign up to Github beforehand)

Chat channel:

• hbmhack-fok

-->

Image for the OHBM brainhack website

Project submission

Submission checklist

Once the issue is submitted, please check items in this list as you add under 'Additional project info'

Please include the following above (all required):

• Link to your project: could be a code repository, a shared document, etc. See here
• Include your Mattermost handle (i.e. your username). If you do not have an account, please sign up here.
• Goals for the OHBM Brainhack: describe what you want to achieve during this brainhack. See here.
• Flesh out at least 2 "good first issues": those are tasks that do not require any prior knowledge about your project, could be defined as issues in a GitHub repository, or in a shared document, cf here.
• Skills: list skills that would be particularly suitable for your project. We ask you to include at least one non-coding skill, cf. here.
• Chat channel: A link to a chat channel that will be used during the OHBM Brainhack. This can be an existing channel or a new one. We recommend using the Brainhack space on mattermost, cf. here.
• Provide an image of your project for the OHBM brainhack website

You can also include information about (all optional):

• Someone co-leading the project in the timeslot you have not selected to provide additional visibility.
• Number of participants, cf. here
• Twitter-size summary of your project pitch, cf. here
• Set up a kanban board on your repository to better divide the work and keep track of things, cf here
• Project snippet for the OHBM Brainhack website, cf. here

We would like to think about how you will credit and onboard new members to your project. We recommend reading references from this section. If you'd like to share your thoughts with future project participants, you can include information about (recommended):

• Specify how will you acknowledge contributions (e.g. listing members on a contributing page).
• Provide links to onboarding documents if you have some.

QMENTA has agreed to sponsor the event and provide computational resources through their platform.

• Get in touch with QMENTA through their Brain Innovation Hub Slack space, if you think your project would benefit from their support.

[CooperSmout]

hi @ohbm/project-monitors: My project is ready!

I just couldn't figure out how to link the image, please let me know where to upload this

[tiborauer]

@matteomancini has already taken care of it.