Thank you for your interest in contributing to Digital Safety for Open Researchers 🎉!
We couldn't do this without you, your expertise, and your experiences.
Our Project Vision
Researchers who make their work publicly accessible, especially those from underrepresented or marginalized communities, can come under vicious personal and professional online attack. This can be a real issue for those who research topics the public may define as controversial. Currently, there are few academic institutions proactively working to educate researchers on digital safety, and many researchers are unsure of how to prevent or remedy attacks on their digital privacy. As project leaders, we believe that raising awareness about researchers’ digital safety and privacy is one way help to safeguard intellectual freedom in the digital age.
Digital Safety for Open Researchers will produce an open educational resource (OER) for members of the higher education community looking to mitigate digital safety threats while working and teaching open. Digital Safety for Open Researchers will be a living collection of case studies that present tools and practices researchers can learn from as they consider their own digital safety. It will bring together researchers who share their stories and suggest tools and practices based on their experiences.
Why should I read the contributor guidelines?
This document is a set of guidelines for contributing to Digital Safety for Open Researchers on GitHub. These are guidelines, not rules. This guide is meant to make it easy for you to get involved! You can also explore some of the benefits of contributing to this project. If you have any comments or questions, please contact [email protected].
Table of Contents
- Participation guidelines
- What we're working on & how you can help!
- How to submit changes
- Recognizing contributors
- Communication channels
This project adheres to an evolving community agreement. By participating, you are expected to uphold this agreement. Please report unacceptable behavior to [email protected].
We invite collaborators to contribute expertise and stories to our OER.
Different skills will be needed to contribute to different portions of our project. Our hope is to have this GitBook OER shared and expanded on by other researchers and academic institutions.
This collaborative, open effort will help us pool our knowledge to create the best possible resource and by working open we will ensure that everyone has equitable access to this resource.
We could use your help with the following:
➡️ Build out content for modules: Share your own story about a digital safety problem, Share successful privacy expertise, teaching exercises, or lesson plans relevant to the module topics
➡️ Provide expertise on: digital safety and law, creating good education texts, tools and practices for digital safety
➡️ Provide perspectives from various fields: computer science, communication, journalism, activism, and other relevant fields
Take a look at our current issues to see how you can contribute to our project. Take note of the issue "labels" to match your interests and expertise to a particular issue (a digital privacy expert might be interested in working on the issues labeled online surveillance, for example).
If you'd like an easy way to get started helping with our project, view our good first issues.
Feel free to send information about our project to individuals you know that might be interested! Still unsure of how you can contribute? Email us: [email protected]
To submit changes or additional content to our project, please explore our issues tab. Each issue will provide details on how you can contribute to a particular piece of the project. In many cases, you will be asked to comment on the issue or email us your edits to [email protected] for the project leaders to review. If you notice a problem with any portion of our GitHub page or our GitBook page, please email us.
First time contributing to open source? Check out this free series, How to Contribute to an Open Source Project on GitHub.
We want to be sure that you are thanked and acknowledged for the work you do contributing to this project. Depending on your contribution, we can show our gratitude to you in some of the following ways: we can assist with your project in return, we can help spread the word about your project, we can list your name among project contributors, and in other ways.
We want to hear from YOU about how we can thank you for your contribution. If you have ideas or requests, please email [email protected]. If you feel comfortable, add your name to our Acknowledgements section of our online text!
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @opendigsafety