Consider engaging with Birdaro

[kallewesterling]

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We are not the only organization currently focusing on the challenges faced by (scientific) OSS projects. As we’ve begun working on Birdaro, our primary goal has been to understand some of the ecosystem dynamics already at play – who is working in this space, what are their goals and audiences, how do these overlap with one another, and where are the gaps that we might be best placed to address? To do this, we’ve been carrying out a listening tour – speaking with leaders from a range of organizations addressing different aspects of open source (predominantly, but not exclusively software), and starting to map the landscape of existing projects and resources. These conversations are ongoing and if you’d like to participate, we’d love to hear from you!

When this initial research phase focusing on the “meta-level” of existing support is complete, we plan to share a report of what we’ve learned and host accompanying discussions of the findings (including participating in existing platforms and channels!). We’d like to bring open source leaders directly into the conversation to add deeper context and start exploring preferences for specific outputs we propose.

We’ll also start to build upon the relationships and partnerships we’ve fostered to co-create new outputs – which might look like partnering on an aspect of the curriculum, adopting key infrastructure hosted by others and providing them test cases in the process, or co-hosting emerging conversations together.

We currently envision that Birdaro products will likely include the development of a training program tailored to leaders of open-source projects, as well as complementary resources and activities (such as community calls or other “pop up” events) that address some of the needs identified in our research. We are, however, holding a lot of space for collaborative conversations and opportunities to build with others so if you’re interested in doing something together, please get in touch!