Here we define potential users and contributors and how they fit into this project. For further information we would like to refer you to this document which explains the purpose of personas.
Ida is a researcher in life sciences working on fruit fly genetics. For several years she has been part of the Open Science community and has been very active there. Besides that she likes modern art, Jazz music, and tries to get into soldering in her local hack space.
She would like to teach an Open Science class but she knows establishing such a course from scratch requires a lot of work which she cannot squeeze into her tight schedule. Ida does a search on the web for potential material and finds Open Science 101. As this reduces the preparation effort for her dramatically she decides to offer an "Introduction to Open Science" class. After each lecture given she reports back to the Open Science 101 team and points out if there is any material that is missing or that needs improvement.
Nick is a student of Physics and will soon start his Master in semi-conductor quantum mechanics. While talking to a PhD student during an intership he heard about problems in the way science is currently being conducted. He was informed that there is an Open Science movement that would like to change how science is performed and he got interested in learning how he could apply these principles to his research.
He finds a course about Open Science at his university that is given by Ida. Ida invites the participants of the course to give feedback to the Open Science 101 project. Nick creates a GitHub account and generates several issues where he suggests how the material could be improved.
Natalia works as a lawyer at a large company. At some point she recognized, inspired by the books of Carl Sagan, how much fun science and engineering can be. Because of this she started some small science projects in her spare time on her own.
On Twitter she stumbles accross a link to the Open Science 101 project and reads the material of the different topics. Based on the newly aquired knowledge she makes her small science project open and connects to the Open Science community by joining the OKFN Open Science mailing list. Some months later she gives a lightning talk about Open Science at a maker fair in her town. She uses some graphics and material taken from the Open Science 101 project. While preparing, she spots a typo in the material and writes an email to the maintainer of the material.
Aimee is the maintainer of topic Open Peer review. She ...
- ... is a member of the Open Science community, since several years
- ... has deep knowledge of Open Science and and practices frequently in the community
- ... understands the main philosophy of Open Science 101
- ... is dedicated to work on the topic
- ... is responsible for writing the main text
- ... is able to handle
git, GitHub, and to write Markdown - ... is able to communicate with others and to moderate disussions
- ... is involved in the discussions about content, format, and styles
Dante contributes to different topics by adding small pieces of text or correcting. He ...
- ... has an understanding of his specific topic
- ... is not able to handle
gitbut can edit Markdown in the GitHub web-interface
Wei is a student of graphic design and wants to contribute to the open content community. He ...
- ... is very skilled in generating informative and beatiful graphics that explain difficult topics in an easy way
- ... has a basic understanding of Open Science
- ... can upload his graphics to the respective Open Science 101 topic via the GitHub web-interface