Community onboarding cookbook published

Project: EuroScienceGateway was funded by the European Union programme Horizon Europe (HORIZON-INFRA-2021-EOSC-01-04) under grant agreement number 101057388 and by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee grant number 10038963.

Document: D 5.1 Community onboarding cookbook published

Work Package: Work Package 5: Community engagement, adoption and onboarding

Task: Task 5.4 Mentoring and onboarding new communities

Lead Beneficiary: University of Oslo

Contributing Beneficiary: All partners

Executive Summary

The onboarding cookbook is a set of documents describing the creation of the Galaxy communities of practice called Special Interest Groups (SIG). It outlines the necessary steps which shall precede every SIG creation : search for already existing SIGs which match the required profile; clear definition of the future SIG's goals; setup of SIG's administrative bodies and routines; planning of future publications and training. The Cookbook also lists the minimum of prerequisites required before the creation of a new SIG. The goal of these recommendations is to empower the SIG creators to run a Galaxy community . Success stories of already onboarded communities with different levels of maturity are shared, focusing on their experience in using Galaxy and building their SIGs (Milestone 12 - Interim report on the activities of the 3 early adopters and assessment of the take up by their respective communities).