Engagement Pathways In Open Science Ecosystem Community
The text outlines various community engagement strategies and programs aimed at enhancing member retention and participation in a STEM-focused organization. It highlights the importance of providing spaces for retired program members to remain active within the community, which helps maximize both member retention and program impact.
Forums, Feature request Collection, Up votes on ideas
Share with Public audience and Communities
New OSF user onboarding
Added to Customized Mailing Lists
Personalized Feed Based on Interest
Project management integration
Lab members/ research collaborators
OSF
Flu Lab
OSKB- STEM HUB
Data on interest, conversations, Engagement
COS/ Metascience
Policy
Product And Infrastructure
Enter into Community
Researchers Join Here!
When COS Program or Events are Retirement
Primary contact- Program leader
Private chat/ communication channels between retired program members
Posting of program accomplishments
Engaged program members have a chance to stay involved at the organization. Maximize retention of members and Maximizes impact of program.
After the conclusion of a COS program, Members can be offered a space in our ecosystem as a way of getting involved. Achievements from the program can also be posted.
Open Cultural & Translator
Primary contact- Community Manager (Daniel)
Forum/ Project space
Networking Connections
Addition of translated resources to our Resource library- Credit provided.
Benifits
COS- Provide Community developed resources in other languages.
Member- Help receive credit for translating resources and spreading open science
A space where researchers can help bridge the language barrier with translated resources.
Top/Prereg Resource Working groups
Forums, project working spaces, events and meetings
For COS: Community insight into projects and developments
For OSF audence: Community devloped insight into resources
For members: Level of prestige, help support new researchers.
a space for our working groups to come together to offer expertise on our next projects and decisions.
Open Science News
Primary contact- Community manager
Secondary Contact- Marketing Team
Ability to post and share Open Science Event/ Trainings Calendar
a general forum, with first post moderation. The hope is to share news for the general audience.
For members- A aggregation of open science news in one place for the audience, a place to get engaged.
General forum on the latest news and publications on open science
OSF Developer Community
Forum on UX community for Audience upvoting. (OSF UX working group)
Forum for engagement between members
For COS: Less time spent for Staff with integration changes. Potential community insight.
Members: Community driven integration, by the community. Credit for work
A sub community for developers to help build add-on integrations with the OSF.
Ambassador Networking & Workshops
Primary contact- Community Manager
Specific topic trainings
Workshops with clear output for resource library
Access to Networking events, and collaborative workshops
Access to direct messaging between members
Networking channel (Forum)
Job posting forum
Collaboration forum
Introduction forum
For Us: providing a collaborative space can lead to valuable outputs for our resource library
For Members: This provides a safe, collaborative environment for ambassadors to grow in open science an their careers.
A space and events specifically designed to connect ambassadors.
OSF UX working group
Primary contact- Mark Call
Secondary Contact- Community Manager
Clear quarterly directives for Goals, Mutual benefits, and time commitments
Add-on request voting (OSF software community)
Participation in UX workshops
Posting/voting on OSF Feature request forums
Discusion Forums
For COS/ OSF- Get community feedback for product design
For Members- Chance to get involved and shape next updates of the OSF.
A specific working group for improving the OSF and all of it's tools for Open Science.
Institutional Advocates
Primary contact- Gretchen
Secondary- Community Manager
Engagement Activities
Clear quarterly directives for goals, mutual benefits, and time commitments
Access to trainings (Swag), Networking Events (Ambassador Networking)
Forums for Networking and conversations.
Access to private resources institution members targeted at increasing engagement at institutions
Access to Community Resource Library
Benefits
For COS- Increased engagement from institutions, better KPI, Potential FFS
For Member- Access to Community Resource, private networking space, support for Increasing engagement at university.
What
A space where advocates for Open Science from institution members can converse about challenges, resources, and general networking.
