How are communities run? Exploring community governance

This month, in the lead up to tomorrow’s monthly community call (Wednesday, 17 November at 4pm UTC / 11am EST), we’ve been thinking about community governance models and how they play out in the STEM community ecosystem. On tomorrow’s call, we’re looking forward to hosting a conversation about the nuance of community governance, the pros and the cons of different models, and how in many organizations multiple models are employed to meet different needs, both in intentional and responsive ways. Have we piqued your interest? If so, do join us tomorrow for more (see this blog post for detailed information and how to join).

You can also see examples of how different STEM communities are run by checking out the CSCCE Community Profiles collection. The collection grew this month, with the addition of several new profiles created in collaboration with the Science and Technology Innovation Program at the Wilson Center. This particular collection focuses on communities in the open hardware and open science ecosystem.

We’ll be presenting (virtually) more about the CSCCE Community Profiles at next month’s AGU Fall Meeting, and also sharing our model for creating collaboration guides to scaffold large scale collaborations. If you’re attending the meeting and would like to connect, let us know by emailing info@www.cscce.org.

Also in this month’s newsletter:

Learn more about some of our new and ongoing grant-based collaborations
Read a recent article about CSCCE from our major funder, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Check out (and share!) an exciting job opportunity in the STEM community space
Find out more about the workshop we offered at the Japan SciCom Forum

News and updates

A conversation about community governance

For our November community call, we’re hosting a conversation in response to a need expressed within our community of practice to understand community governance models. Alyica Crall of The Carpentries will join CSCCE’s Lou Woodley and Katie Pratt to facilitate the call, which will take place tomorrow, Wednesday 17 November at 4pm UTC / 11am EST.

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CSCCE featured in Sloan highlights magazine

This issue of the Sloan 2020 highlights magazine begins with the foundation’s president, Adam Falk, outlining the importance of community in science, and includes an article about how CSCCE is “challenging outdated cultural norms in science.”

Read the article

Our profiles collection expands in collaboration with STIP Wilson

The CSCCE Community Profiles offer snapshots of communities in STEM, from programming to community structure and governance to funding. A new collaborative collection focuses on the open hardware and open science ecosystem.

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CSCCE in Japan (virtually!)

At the Japan SciCom Forum, hosted by the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) in Tokyo, CSCCE’s Camille Santistevan and Lou Woodley facilitated a workshop based around our PACT framework for virtual event planning. This also gave us the opportunity to create our first fully bilingual worksheet to enhance participation.

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Ongoing collaborations

CSCCE partners with the Environmental Data Science Inclusion Network (EDSIN) to support their community development

Over the course of the past 20 months, scientific communities have worked hard to pivot their member engagement strategy to support meaningful interactions in the digital space. Earlier this year, CSSCE worked with the Environmental Data Science Inclusion Network to reassess their members’ needs and ensure that the content and programming provided is responsive to them.

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CSCCE to work with Bioconductor on a new grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

As part of the latest cycle of grants under the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI)’s Essential Open Source Software for Science program, CSCCE will be working with the software nonprofit Bioconductor as they develop a new training program and community platform for their users.

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CSCCE collaborating on a new NSF grant to help students at minority serving institutions succeed in environmental data science

Thanks to funding from the National Science Foundation’s Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) program, we will be working with partner organizations in the data science domain to support a series of working groups and workshops for instructors at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs).

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JOBS AND OPPORTUNITIES

Engagement Lead – Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI)

Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) is seeking an Engagement Lead to join a growing team working to increase adoption, investment in, and the sustainability of open infrastructure in research and scholarship.The Engagement Lead position is key to ensuring IOI’s work is responsive to, and reflective of, the needs of the communities they serve: researchers, scholars, budget holders/funders, and the open infrastructure community. This role will drive IOI’s participation and engagement strategies to advance IOI’s mission. This position will work closely with the Director of Research and Strategy and the Executive Director to design strategy for tailored events to further IOI’s mission and operationalize IOI’s research. This is a full-time, remote position, reporting to the Executive Director.

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