OpenScienceKE Hackathon

Planning for the OpenScienceKE Hackathon held on the 30th and 31st August at KENET Training room, JKML, UoN.

Introduction

Having trained on Open Science tools in our last workshop, this stage of the project seeks to foster collaboration among workshop attendees through a two-day hackathon, where they will get to experience the power of the wisdom of the crowds. In addition, this hackathon will afford the participants an opportunity to further solidify their skills while addressing questions of interest to the Open Science community in Kenya, and Africa as a whole.

How to contribute

We are in the process of developing ideas for the hackathon. Our initial thoughts can be accessed in the issues section. Hop in there to comment on the current ideas or suggest one by creating a new issue. The current ideas are:

1. Exploring the status of open science in Kenya through literature search and data mining.
   • Requires writing and ability to search literature
   • Data mining requires experience in R or Python for data analysis
2. A resource highlighting journals that offer low-cost open access options for the students to publish.
   • Basic writing and literature search
3. What else can we explore?

Hackathon Projects

The following projects have been selected for the hackathon:

1. Status of open science in Kenya: Literature search
2. Status of open science in Kenya: Data mining
3. Publishing open access at low cost: what are our options?

Check the linked repos to know more about the projects. Reach out to the team leaders if you can help out with any of the projects.

What kind of projects are we interested in?

We looking for projects that:

• Can be tackled within two days
• Can be tackled by participants with entry to intermediate level coding skills
• Address a Bioinformatics or Open Science question. Should not, however, require highly specialized Bioinformatics skills Thank you for your interest. We already settled on the hackathon projects, but feel free to suggest projects we can explore in the future.

To participate

You can make an application to participate in the hackathon using the link: https://goo.gl/forms/kB8scJld2UG2NncH2. Applications Closed.

Hackathon Schedule

Find the hackathon schedule here.

License

All content of this repo is released under the CC-BY 4.0 license

Acknowledgement

We hereby acknowledge the funding for this project from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation through Mozilla Science Lab Mini-Grants.

The hackathon venue and computing resource support from Kenya Education Network (KENET) is also acknowledged.

Contributors

Organizers

• Caleb Kipkurui (OpenScienceKE Project Lead)
• Ben Mainye(Team Lead, Data Mining Group)
• Pauline karega(Team Lead,Open Access Options Group)
• Esoh Kevin(Team Lead, Literature Search Group)
• Daniel Ouso
• Rosaline Macharia
• Kelvin Muteru

Hackathon Participants

Reach out

For questions, suggestions or to participate, reach me via:

• Twitter: @calkibet
• Email: kipkuruis [at] hotmail.com