Sprint for your eLife! How the eLife Innovation Sprint Helps Drive Forward Open Science Projects

Episode Summary

In this episode we cover the eLife Innovation Sprint 2020, that was held online on September 2nd and 3rd, 2020. The sprint facilitates collaboration between people who are working on tools, services, and other projects that enhance open science and research.

We talk to the organiser Dr Emmy Tsang, who at the time was the Innovation Community Manager for eLife but is now the Community Engagement Manager for TU Delft. As well as participants from two of the projects that took part: Dr Cássio Amorim, creator of SciGen.Report, 'a platform to easily share and view any information that researchers may have on the reproducibility of papers'. And Esha Datta and Daniel Nüst, who who both joined the sprint to work on the Expanding Open Grants project, developed by Dr Hao Ye, which increases accessibility to examples of grants and proposals.  

Episode Links: 

eLife Sprint

• Emmy Tsang: @emmy_ft 
• @eLifeInnovation

SciGen.Report

• @ScigenReport 

Expanding Open Grants

• @nordholmen
• The new GH org for the sprint with latest developments:
  https://github.com/expanding-open-grants/
• The wrap up slides are at:
  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PlW7Iq5xOKu1kbo_CLvnYXBJ3ldPdd4ulggZJl4F2-Y/edit#slide=id.g96e132450a_0_112