After one of the meetings of the open research working group here in Sussex, Neil Jacobs from the UK reproducibility network UKRN has asked for a primer on open source hardware for their website. They already have primers for software, data, open access, etc. They can be found here.
For the hardware one they want something with the same headers from other primers. It should be a 3-4 pages introduction for researchers who may be interested in a topic but are not sure how or where to start.
I am writing this post to see if people from GOSH would like to contribute to the writing/commenting. My plan is to finish this draft by April 24th and send it to Neill. He would then review it and make suggestions. Once those are incorporated, the primer will be published on the UKRN website.
Sounds great! I won’t be able to comment, but UKRN seems to be in touch (“affiliated partner”) with the German Reproducibility Network (GRN) and I could offer to translate your work for them. Would you mind asking Neil, if this sounds like a valid option?
Hi @Paul! Don’t know if you were asking me or @amchagas but yes I can certainly ask Neil. He is not in the office today, but I plan to catch up with him next week and will let you know. That said, I’m almost certain it’s fine to translate it! And yes, the GRN is affiliated with UKRN:
there is some content at Open Hardware — The Turing Way, it may be nice to combine that chapter with your new worked document, and the work we want to do during the book dash (see one earlier entry in this forum) ??
@hpy just whatever people would like to contribute with really. Point is that a community effort is certainly going to be better than just me writing it
@Paul I can also mention this to Neil once I send him the first draft.
@Juliencolomb This primer needs to be short (3-4 pages max) and be an overview with pointers towards resources for people that would like to get started. If you are keen, what about adding those resources to the primer text?
Hi @amchagas I’ve suggested various edits, additions, deletions, and comments to the document. Hope it’s useful! Please let us know how to proceed. Thanks for doing this!
Thanks @hpy and @julianstirling for your input! I have included them in the text, together with some more links and minor changes. I think this has reached a stage where it can be shared with UKRN people for comments and feedback.
We got a reviewed version of the primer. It lives here. I have worked on some of the comments, leaving everything as annotated changes.
Will try to finish incorporating changes until Friday this week and then send it over back to UKRN on Monday (unless someone from this thread/collaborating requires more time).
Thanks @amchagas. I had a quick read just now, and the text largely looks OK. Any other major items that you think we need to address before another iteration with UKRN?
Hi @hpy!
sorry for the delay in replying to your messages here… as usual, things got backlogged for a while… I took another pass at the primer and I agree that it looks fine for sending it over to UKRN again…
I’ll send out a message to everyone that contributed to give them time for one more pass, and then send it off…
