White paper (Thomas: A review of open research initiatives; Bapu: A “policy forum” in Science; Simon: an open project using social science data)
Feedback for existing tools: what need to be improved, what is working really well (JOGL, Knowen). Also comments on projects and initiatives that are not related to tools.
Getting a list of people willing to try new features and tools, so that on the long run we can collect their opinion/experiences/data
Some data / examples showing how open practices are already benefiting people here would be helpful! Open source (scientific) software is an example, but ideally we would have some open access / open data / open process examples too.
Compare our goals with current initiatives, like the Center for Open Science and Force11. To what extent do our goals and/or methods align with them (are we more bottom-up for example?)
Encourage researchers to slowly adopt open projects, share their work, adopt different methods for recruiting students and gathering collaborators
An open science initiative at Perimeter (or your home institution)
Core open science principles (open access, open data, open process, etc.)
Get postdocs and faculty to commit to trying out open science in at least one way (something they are not already doing)
Could try to encourage more influential/important people to try open projects (media involvement as incentive)
Write editorial piece on licenses in Nature, Science, or specialized journals
Encourage creation of arXiv overlays, which allow experimentation in publishing
explore CS-type conference proceedings publication model
Long term goals:
Imagine a vision statement: how research in academia will look like in a few years, if open research is adopted and spreads. (Here is a doc with future scenarios that may be useful; it was generated by SCWG4 of Force11)