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1. Ten simple rules for measuring the impact of workshops.

Author

Sufi, Shoaib, Nenadic, Aleksandra, Silva, Raniere, Balzano, Melissa, Coelho, Sara, Ford, Heather, Jones, Catherine, Higgins, Vanessa, Duckles, Beth, Simera, Iveta, de Beyer, Jennifer A., Struthers, Caroline, Nurmikko-Fuller, Terhi, Bellis, Louisa, Miah, Wadud, Wilde, Adriana, Emsley, Iain, and Philippe, Olivier

Subjects
FORUMS, RESEARCH, DECISION making, STRATEGIC planning, PARTICIPATION
Abstract

Workshops are used to explore a specific topic, to transfer knowledge, to solve identified problems, or to create something new. In funded research projects and other research endeavours, workshops are the mechanism used to gather the wider project, community, or interested people together around a particular topic. However, natural questions arise: how do we measure the impact of these workshops? Do we know whether they are meeting the goals and objectives we set for them? What indicators should we use? In response to these questions, this paper will outline rules that will improve the measurement of the impact of workshops. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2018
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2. Ten simple rules for helping newcomers become contributors to open projects.

Author

Sholler, Dan, Steinmacher, Igor, Ford, Denae, Averick, Mara, Hoye, Mike, and Wilson, Greg

Subjects
SOCIAL learning, OPEN source software, SCIENCE education, HEBBIAN memory, SOFTWARE engineering, LIFE sciences, SCIENCE & state, HUMAN-computer interaction
Abstract

Open-source software projects are also communities of effort. "...developers who join an organization through these programs are half as likely to transition into long-term community members than developers who do not use these programs... although developers who do succeed through these programs find them valuable". 47 Fagerholm F, Guinea AS, Münch J, Borenstein J. The role of mentoring and project characteristics for onboarding in open source software projects. [Extracted from the article]

Published
2019
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3. Targeted pandemic containment through identifying local contact network bottlenecks

Author

Chris T. Bauch, Di Wang, Shenghao Yang, Priyabrata Senapati, and Kimon Fountoulakis

Subjects
FOS: Computer and information sciences, Viral Diseases, Facebook, Computer science, Epidemiology, Distributed computing, Social Sciences, 01 natural sciences, Systems Science, Oregon, Medical Conditions, Sociology, Agent-Based Modeling, Medicine and Health Sciences, Centrality, Biology (General), Computer Networks, 0303 health sciences, education.field_of_study, Ecology, Simulation and Modeling, Quebec, Social Communication, Computer Science - Social and Information Networks, Infectious Diseases, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Social Networks, Modeling and Simulation, Convex optimization, Physical Sciences, Network Analysis, Algorithms, Research Article, Physics - Physics and Society, Computer and Information Sciences, QH301-705.5, Population, FOS: Physical sciences, Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph), Research and Analysis Methods, Models, Biological, Bottleneck, 03 medical and health sciences, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 0103 physical sciences, Genetics, Humans, Computer Simulation, Quantitative Biology - Populations and Evolution, 010306 general physics, education, Molecular Biology, Pandemics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 030304 developmental biology, Social and Information Networks (cs.SI), Simulation modeling, Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE), COVID-19, Covid 19, Flow network, Communications, Transmission (telecommunications), Flow (mathematics), FOS: Biological sciences, Social Media, Mathematics
Abstract

Decision-making about pandemic mitigation often relies upon simulation modelling. Models of disease transmission through networks of contacts--between individuals or between population centres--are increasingly used for these purposes. Real-world contact networks are rich in structural features that influence infection transmission, such as tightly-knit local communities that are weakly connected to one another. In this paper, we propose a new flow-based edge-betweenness centrality method for detecting bottleneck edges that connect nodes in contact networks. In particular, we utilize convex optimization formulations based on the idea of diffusion with p-norm network flow. Using simulation models of COVID-19 transmission through real network data at both individual and county levels, we demonstrate that targeting bottleneck edges identified by the proposed method reduces the number of infected cases by up to 10% more than state-of-the-art edge-betweenness methods. Furthermore, the proposed method is orders of magnitude faster than existing methods., Comment: 38 pages, 21 figures

Published
2021

4. Ten Simple Rules for Curating and Facilitating Small Workshops.

Author

McInerny, Greg J.

Subjects
FORUMS, WORKSHOPS (Facilities) -- Design & construction, RESEARCH, TOPIC & comment (Grammar), DISCUSSION, TIME perspective, INTERACTION model (Communication)
Abstract

The article discusses the creation of good workshops which could be in a diverse form and fit different goals. This is needed for exploring a single research topic, initiation of working group, and interdisciplinary collaborations. It requires attendees, timetables, and interactions. Topics discussed processes in facilitating workshops including assessment on past success and failures, developing of workshop name, and preparing for speakers speech.

Published
2016
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