News

Event Fund supports more inclusive and accessible events in data science in order to lower barriers to participation in science and facilitate new collaborative relationships. Part of supporting emerging data science leaders to run good data science events includes developing a knowledge base for what it takes to run outstanding and creative events. In this post–part of an ongoing series that focuses on the organizing processes, tools, and practices used to run successful Event Fund-sponsored Open Science events–we learn about LA-CoNGA Physics and how they used a hackathon format to engage with students to enlarge their networks. Through this blog series, Event Fund seeks to highlight the processes and practices that undergird more inclusive and accessible data science event programming.

In this post, we learn about Event Fund grantee ESMARConf and how they have used automation to try to streamline a lot of the behind-the-scenes work.

Event Fund seeks to bring attention to the often under-documented and invisibilized processes, technologies, people, and practices that undergird more inclusive and accessible data science event programming. In this post we learn about Event Fund grantee, CODATA-RDA Schools of Research Data Science, which was a ten-week-long virtual course, with the objective of teaching foundational skills in data science to Early Career Researchers (ECRs) in Low to Middle Income Countries (LMICs).

As part of the Event Fund 2022 seminar series for grantees, CS&S convened an interactive workshop with Shannon Dosemagen on developing guidelines for community participation. Shannon led the group to reflect on and begin to articulate the values and practices they want to promote in their event (and what to do if those are breached).