[Grants] Grant Application from Rowland Mosbergen for RSEAA24 Accessibility Fellowship

[Rowland Mosbergen]

Thanks for the questions Sae Ra.

1. Let me answer the first part around "Open values and Open Methodologies,
as well as advocacy for "open" during the event.

Research software is usually quite open and we have tried to make this
conference as open as possible. The discussion topics that are part of the
core of the unconference are open access through a public github
repository.

The posters that will be submitted and approved will be through a
Zenodo community and will be open access. The report that the potential
fellow would write would also be put on Zenodo or Figshare so that it can
be open access as well.

I would be encouraging the fellow to create a Mastodon account to provide a
microblogging experience for people who may want to follow them during the
event.

During the event we will be talking a lot around open source software, as
many research software engineers use python, R, and other open source
software.


2. For the second part around the values of Open
Technology, Community, Freedom, Respect, and Diversity.

As for open technology, we recognise that github is not open but we have
made sure all the information is open access.

This is definitely a community event. For example the maximum price that
anyone would pay for the event is $30 Australian dollars. This is about
lowering the barrier to entry for the community to attend. This is why we
rely on sponsors and volunteers.

Freedom is mainly through the open access of the Zenodo community
where members can submit posters and we would approve appropriate posters.
We will be encouraging people submitting posters to have CC-BY-4.0
licenses.

As for respect we do obey lawful restrictions placed upon us particularly
with reference to licence in copyright and patents, to the best of our
ability. In particular, we really want to respect the most marginalised
people in our community by listening to them and recognising that we need
to support them. I think that this is just the start.

Diversity is one of the core principles of the event and is the main reason
why I am the founder of this event. I think this particular fellowship is a
potential example for other community events to be able to get good, honest
feedback from marginalised members of their communities in a proactive,
positive way.


I hope that clarifies things! I'm also happy to clarify further if it
hasn't.


Regards,

Rowland Mosbergen



On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 8:57 PM Sae Ra Germaine <s.germaine at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Roland,
>
> Thank you for submitting your grant proposal. A couple of questions from
> me, I'm wondering if you could please expand for us on the link to Open
> values and Open Methodologies and how this can be progressed forward. Will
> there be advocacy for "Open" during the event etc.
>
> Also if you could please expand on how this may be in line with
> https://linux.org.au/about-us/values/
>
> I personally can see the tie to Openness but just want to make it more
> noticeable for the grants process.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sae Ra
>
> On Fri, 21 Jun 2024 at 19:05, Linux Australia Website <
> admin-team at linux.org.au> wrote:
>
>> Your Email Address: rowland.mosbergen at gmail.com
>> Project name: RSEAA24 Accessibility Fellowship
>> Grant Type: Community Grant
>> Aim of the project: We would like to create an accessibility fellowship
>> for RSEAA24, that is Research Software Engineer Asia Australia 2024 in
>> September 2024. The majority of this community works in open source.
>> The idea of this accessibility fellowship is to encourage a blind or low
>> vision member of our community or adjacent community to join RSEAA24 so
>> that they can hold us accountable of how accessible the experience of the
>> event really was.
>> This would be provided as an open access blog that could be put into
>> figshare or Zenodo and would be provided as part of the event summary
>> report.
>> It is hope that this type of fellowship could be replicated at other
>> events to ensure that accessibility is considered with the most
>> marginalised people in mind.
>> Estimated cost breakdown of the project: The idea would be for the fellow
>> to get a free ticket to the event (that RSEAA24 would cover) as well as
>> $250 AUD beforehand and $250 AUD when the final report is submitted. We
>> would love for Linux Australia to cover the $500 AUD for the fellowship.
>> Project team details: Rowland Mosbergen is the co-chair and he would be
>> the main person organising the fellowship.Rowland has experience in
>> designing events and programs that are underpinned by Diversity, Equity and
>> Inclusion principles as his work as Practical Diversity and Inclusion shows
>> (https://www.practicaldiversity.org/). He has also experience in
>> centring and working with people from marginalised backgrounds.
>> We would provide an EOI form and then identify someone who best
>> represents the RSE community and has a screen reader that they can use
>> during the event.
>> First Name: Rowland
>> Last Name: Mosbergen
>> Email Address: rowland.mosbergen at gmail.com
>> A statement including a willingness to provide regular project updates on
>> the project: We would be keen to hear about how we are progressing even
>> before the event. We would hope the fellow would be able to post via their
>> own Mastadon or through the RSEAA24 Mastadon account. We could provide
>> these links to Linux Australia on a regular basis to show how the
>> accessibility of the event is progressing. We would expect the report to be
>> finished by the end of September or the first week of October.
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