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PREreview OSSD Sprints
As you may know, last year PREreview and Outbreak Science joined forces to build an open-source platform to host community reviews of preprints with topics related to outbreaks. We released the first version of the site, Outbreak Science Rapid PREreview (OSrPRE) on January 1st. Briefly after, the COVID-19 pandemic started and suddenly the number of preprints published on preprint servers took off like never before (check out this nice visualization of the number of preprints on COVID-19 since January). Now more than ever we need to mobilize communities of researchers to work collaboratively and help each other vet this massive amount of research output. This is a great opportunity to prove that together, we can do more — in open source and open science!
We are working with a group of Open Access publishers on an initiative to encourage researchers to rapidly review COVID-19 preprints and on workflows that can seamlessly link community preprint reviews to editorial reviewing processes. We would love to engage the open-source community in this work. WE NEED YOUR HELP!
When: July - Early August 2020
What: The goal of the Sprint is to work on improving the OSrPRE platform, in particular, views and feeds of the prereview content (preprints, prereview requests, prereviews, etc) to enable more engagement on topic specific content, e.g. COVID19 (and other outbreaks) as well as other general improvements.
Where: On the PREreview GitHub and Slack (#prereview-software)
How: Recommended issues are tagged as Mozilla 2020 Sprints and some may additionally be tagged to indicate issues that are good entry points for those new to the project. We have resources to provide bounties for issues and are currently looking into issue bounty tools. Check the sprint page for more details. Join us in Slack (#prereview-software) for assistance, to discuss the project, and to get to know the team!
Information on contributing to the project can be found here.