Kim Wilkens “Our idea was to bring in a funhouse element so people can face their fears — to know that even if something is scary at first, it can be a lot of fun.”
Ani Martinez “There is always a challenge of creating opportunities for new audiences to participate meaningfully.”
Paul Oh “Hacking can seem like such a foreign and threatening term — so we facilitated a workshop which showed how the idea of hacking represents agency and the ability to repurpose, reimagine, and remix.”
Brian Bot “The Working Open Workshop forced me to pay attention to adjacent disciplines and how they deal with the same problems we see in biomedical research.”
Rob Schaefer “It’s important to be OK with mistakes or negative results — to be OK with trying something different or new — to know that your successes are measured incrementally.”
Anna Krystalli “The greatest moral questions of our times are played out on the web and in the fight to keep it open.”
Christie Bahlai “During my fellowship I developed an open science and reproducible research course — my students' work was then highlighted in Science Magazine.”
Hera Hussain “No matter how dangerous it is for young women to be online, they still want to get online. Their social activities are there. Now there are so many things you can _only_ do online.”