Open Science Community Calls

This page describes community calls sponsored by CZI Open Science to engage our grantee community. This program ran through the second half of 2024 and all of 2025 and is now over. For a complete list of notes from the calls, please visit this GitHub organization or review the list below.

The summaries of our previous calls include:

• Managing an Open Source Project: A checklist of things to consider
• 10 Simple Rules for Leadership Without Formal Authority
• Measuring and Assessing Open Source Project Impact and Community Health
• Sustainability & Financial Models
• Implementing Software Peer Review: Tips and Examples
• Developing a Security Mindset for your Open Source Project
• Strategic Thinking Starter Kit for Open Source Projects
• Open Source Dependency Management and Supply Chains
• Scaling Strategies for Open Source Scientific Projects
• Sustainability Resources for Open Source projects
• Governance Signals and Strategies for Open Source Scientific Projects

Who?

These calls were intended to help connect current and former members of the Open Science grantee community. Given that a large percentage of our grantee community was funded via our Essential Open Source Software for Science (EOSS) program, the call topics reflect areas of interest to scientific open source software projects. In addition EOSS project PIs and key personnel, we invited other Open Science grantees to attend. Other Biohub researchers and the broader open science community were also welcome to attend the calls.

What?

Our community calls were a partnership with Organizational Mycology, who identified relevant topics, scheduled call times, and hosted the events.

Calls came in two types:

1. Topic-based calls, which invite participants to share ideas, experiences, challenges, and successes related to a common area of interest. Call hosts collaborate with attendees to create a shared resource; you can view the summaries of previous calls here.
2. Collider calls, in which attendees visit with other participants in multiple small breakout rooms during the course of the call. These are excellent opportunities to find unexpected connections with other community members and expand your personal and professional network.

When?

In 2024, we held one topic-based call per month from July through December. In 2025, there were six topical calls and six collider calls.

This program is complete, but the resources are open source, with a CC0 license, so feel free to use them, incorporate them in your content and materials, and contribute back to them.