Episode 43: Investing in Open Infrastructure with Kaitlin Thaney

Sponsored by Linode
Panelists Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman | Pia Mancini | Richard
Littauer Guest Kaitlin Thaney Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI)
Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! Today, we have Kaitlin
Thaney, who is the Executive Director for Invest in Open
Infrastructure (IOI). Kaitlin will tell us all about IOI and what
she’s doing there. She also explains the history of the Mozilla
Science Lab and how her team came up with it. How has COVID
impacted the organization, especially since her first day of the
job was when New York City went into lockdown! Download this
episode now to find out! [00:01:17] Kaitlin tells us what Invest in
Open Infrastructure is and what she’s doing there. [00:04:17] Eric
wants to know is this organization built to create essentially just
the technology behind these infrastructures or is it primarily ways
of sharing data? Kaitlin explains the end goal in simplistic terms.
[00:09:50] With Kaitlin’s background and previous organization’s
that she’s worked for (Wikimedia, Mozilla, and Creative Commons),
Justin wants to know how those former employers shaped her for what
she’s doing now as an Executive Director. [00:16:41] Kaitlin
explains Mozilla Science Lab. She also has a call to action called
“Get credit for your code!” She talks about this and how she and
her team came up with it. [00:21:35] Richard asks Kaitlin to tell
us what Elsevier is and how they represent what’s happening in
academia now. Also, since she started this initiative before COVID
happened, she tells us how she’s adapted, how she’s changed, and
what’s happening moving forward. [00:28:21] Pia wants to know from
Kaitlin what the broad impact COVID has had and what are her plans
going forward, and how are folks thinking about this? [00:33:12]
Richard gives a s/o to the Schmidt Foundation for funding Invest in
Open Infrastructure (IOI). [00:33:42] Kaitlin lets us know how you
can get involved with her project if you are a software developer,
work at a university, or a researcher. Also, how you can find her
and where can you sign up. Spotlight [00:34:35] Richard’s spotlight
is BibTeX. [00:35:02] Justin’s spotlight is Undraw.co. [00:35:28]
Eric’s spotlight is Betterhelp.com and Therapistaid.com (both worth
checking out) [00:37:55] Pia’s spotlight is Excalidraw. [00:38:43]
Kaitlin’s spotlight is a portable Informed Consent Toolkit from
Sage Bionetworks. Quotes [00:13:55] “You all know the deep roots
that Open Source has, and software and the internet have in
science. But beyond those initial stories, I think there’s an
interesting kind of proof space that this sort of work allows for,
because in terms of moving decisions forward, it’s not just talking
about researchers. It also touches those in the education sector,
universities, policy makers, for profit tech, and non-profit tech.
All of these various elements that by their very nature, help bring
and incubate different solutions that you can then apply to broader
society.” Links Invest in Open Infrastructure
(https://investinopen.org/) Open Infrastructure in times of crisis:
How IOI can help
(https://investinopen.org/2020/04/08/open-infrastructure-in-times-of-crisis.html)
Kaitlin Thaney Twitter (https://twitter.com/kaythaney) Kaitlin
Thaney (IOI) (https://investinopen.org/participants/) Mozilla
Science Lab-Get credit for your code!
(http://mozillascience.github.io/code-research-object/#extensions)
BibTeX (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BibTeX) unDraw.co
(https://undraw.co) Betterhelp.com (https://www.betterhelp.com/)
TherapistAid.com (https://www.therapistaid.com/) Excalidraw.com
(https://excalidraw.com/) Schmidt Family Foundation
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_Family_Foundation) Credits
Produced by Justin Dorfman (https://www.justindorfman.com/) Edited
by Paul M. Bahr at Peachtree Sound
(https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Show notes by DeAnn Bahr at
Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Ad Sales by Eric
Berry Special Guest: Kaitlin Thaney.