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# Community-building online

## SSI Fellows Community Call

*October 2020*

**Jez Cope** (he/him)  
Data Services Lead  
The British Library

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# Agenda

1. I had fellowship plans
2. Then COVID happened
3. So what now?

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# My fellowship plans

Help people doing data science in cultural heritage feel a bit less isolated

Do this by building a community, first in the British Library, then wider

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# Then COVID happened…

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1. No face-to-face events for the foreseeable future 😷
2. Down a team-member during a recruitment freeze 🤦‍

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.center[![Shrugging muppet](https://media.giphy.com/media/jPAdK8Nfzzwt2/source.gif)]

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# On the other hand...

> “Help people doing *data science* in *cultural heritage* feel a bit less *isolated*”

We all need a *little more help* than usual *breaking the isolation* right now

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# What *can* I do right now?

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## 1. Learn

- [Open Life Science programme](https://openlifesci.org/)
- [Mozilla Open Leadership Training Series](https://mozilla.github.io/open-leadership-training-series/)

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## 2. Plan; Prepare

- Find and try some planning tools:
  - [Open Canvas](https://mozilla.github.io/open-leadership-training-series/articles/opening-your-project/develop-an-open-project-strategy-with-open-canvas/)
  - [Community Canvas](https://community-canvas.org/)
- Draft a [README](https://github.com/jezcope/chds-network/blob/main/README.md)
  - …a roadmap
  - …a Code of Conduct
- Get the project online
  [chds.netlify.app](https://chds.netlify.app/)

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![My Open Canvas!](https://gitlab.com/jezcope/ssi-fellowship-2020-project/-/raw/main/images/open-canvas.png)

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<iframe src="https://chds.netlify.app"
        width="960" height="540" frameborder="0">
</iframe>

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## 3. Get feedback

- From colleagues
- From prospective network members
- From you lot! 🚀

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# I can't be the only one…

…so let's let's talk & help each other out

![Tortoise helping another tortoise](https://media.giphy.com/media/jKDPsIrUnC7Re/source.gif)

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# Ideas

- Slack channel for discussions
- Journal/reading club
- Joint blog post
- …?
