By Damien Irving and David Flanders

The second annual Mozilla Science Lab Global Sprint (mozsprint) has just wrapped up (see the global summary here), so we thought we’d recap the action here in Melbourne:

Still going strong here at #mozsprint #Melbourne, some break out groups doing training as well. pic.twitter.com/vHkFagq8X3

— David F. Flanders (@dfflanders)

June 4, 2015

Scott Ritchie and Harriet Dashnow worked on the Software Carpentry teaching materials for Rstat. They received pull requests from all over the globe and even got to chat with the authors of the Gapminder dataset, upon which the materials are based.

Damien Irving and David Flanders worked on the ResBaz cookbook, with help from Nick Jones in Auckland and Bill Mills in Vancouver.

Flanders also wrote this quick blog post on the number of research tools we are starting to see grow in number, over 250+ from our researcher survey.

Isabell Kiral-Kornek and Rob Kerr worked on Isabell’s new D3.js lesson materials. They received pull requests from as far afield as Bangalore and Isabell even found the time to submit her PhD thesis during the sprint!

The reinvigorating effect of #mozsprint in one picture #50ShadesOfGreen @ResPlat @MozillaScience pic.twitter.com/e65U6GBQXX

— Isa Kiko (@Isa_Kiko)

June 12, 2015

Louise van der Werff worked on her new 3DSlicer teaching materials and with the help of Tim Dettrick she managed to get Slicer working on the NeCTAR Research Cloud.

Cobi Smith interviewed everyone in sight about their knowledge of Figshare.

Kerry Halupka, Martin Paulo, Tim Rice and Paul Mignone worked on their MATLAB, NeCTAR Research Cloud, LaTeX and AutoDesk Inventor teaching materials respectively.

The DevOpps team (Linh, Tim, Justin, Jake and Dylan) did some peer2peer training on the DIT4C engine which powers the resbaz.cloud.edu.au platform.

Some of our friends from Monash stopped by - hi Steve Androulakis!

Our friends from research technology MDHS (thanks Fiona Smith!) came along to say hi, as did several other researchers around campus to check out this hackery stuff!

Melbourne team on our last hours of #mozsprint! Balloons, cake, wine - oh my! @dfflanders @Isa_Kiko @cobismith pic.twitter.com/EAiNT3toyR

— Dejan (@heyDejan)

June 5, 2015

Written by David F. Flanders during #MozSprint.

As Research Community Manager for the University of Melbourne, the most frequent conversation I have with researchers goes something like this:

Researcher: “Hey Flanders, thanks for the training your team did on <ResearcherToolXYZ> the other day; but have you heard of this new tool called <ZYX>?

Flanders: [Loading the tool on my tablet ad hoc] “Oh wow, this new researcher tool looks brilliant, how are you using it for your research?!”

Researcher: "I'd love to use the tool but I need help to get it working so my research team can collaborate in using it together."

Flanders: "You've come to the right place, let's figure out a way to bring like-minded researchers like yourself together to start using this tool collaboratively; and I'll talk to our dev team to get it up on our Research Cloud!"

I’ve had the above conversation over and over again, and it is only increasing in frequency. Though don’t take my word for it! - Check out this growing list of Research tools on Wikipedia (via our DVCR, thanks Liz!)!

In addition, we ran a survey at the beginning of the year (as part of our “Research Bazaar” conference) where we surveyed over 400 researchers througout Australia (early carreer, average age 33) asking them "what next generation digital research skills (aka tools, apps, datasets) are you working with right now?"

Below, over 200+ posters by researchers (ECRs) listing the current tools they are using for their research:

The most popular "next gen digi res skills" training at ResBaz:

Having worked in the sector for over 15 years (accross three contients and dozens of instituions) I was blown away by this researcher response, where we not only saw well over 250+ tools mentioned but also saw a massive crying out for more opportunites to work in cross disciplinary environments.

[Go on, step out of your castle/cathedral on campus and visit us in a common marketplace of next gen digi res skills - welcome to the bazaar!]

Stay tuned to the ResBaz News Channel (aka Twitter hashtag) for more tactical thinking on how we can support researchers as they use more and more data intensive research tools in the cloud.

By Damien Irving.

The Mozilla Science Lab Global Sprint (or #mozsprint, for short) is on again and we will be an official host site!

Have an idea 2 help research thrive on the web? Call 4 projects &hosts! @MozillaScience sprint http://t.co/UjxwHnTnqM pic.twitter.com/ndIMWd69yr

— Abby Cabunoc Mayes (@abbycabs)

April 7, 2015

The inaugural #mozsprint was held in July last year and brought together developers and researchers from all over the world to hack on open science projects for two-days straight. At the Melbourne site we hacked on some of our Software Carpentry and Digital Blacksmith teaching materials and received some great assistance from the global community.

Blog: A wrap-up of #mozsprint in Melbourne, feat. @andsdata, @AusOceanDataNet, #digismith http://t.co/jqiiAgv0gc @MozillaScience

— Research Platforms (@ResPlat)

August 3, 2014

No matter where you are in the world, the 2015 event will be held from 9am - 5pm on 4-5 June. Following the global timezones, that means things will start in New Zealand and Australia. As our first day progresses we’ll be joined by sites in Asia, South Africa and Europe, and then on the morning of day two we’ll link up with sites in Brazil, Canada and the US.