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

[Rowland Mosbergen]

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El sáb, 22 jun 2024, 11:30 a. m., Kathy Reid <kathy at kathyreid.id.au>
escribió:

> Hi everyone,
>
> For full transparency, I encouraged Rowland to submit this request.
>
> Rowland, who I know personally, does excellent work in the research
> software engineering space, and in particular has created a community of
> practice for research software engineers both in Melbourne and broader,
> evidenced by: https://rse-aunz.org/
>
> Research software engineering as a practice, and a profession, is
> gaining broader recognition both in Australia an abroad. Research
> software is predominantly based on open source software, and where it is
> not, there is often a desire to escape proprietary vendor lock-in. As
> research in general becomes increasingly dependent upon software
> engineering and research software infrastructures, Linux Australia, in
> my view, should look to engage research software engineers as a key
> aligned community (as Sae Ra has done so successfully with the library
> technology community).
>
> +1 to this request.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Kathy Reid
>
>
> On 21/6/24 19:04, Linux Australia Website 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.
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Grants mailing list
> > Grants at lists.linux.org.au
> > http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/grants
>
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