Advancing and Promoting Quantum Computing Using Alliance DRI to Current and Future Quantum Scientists

[Jaim-gem]

Project Lead: Jaimie Greasley (Jaim-gem)

Mentor: Robert Giessmann

Welcome to Open Seeds! This issue will be used to track your project and progress during the program. Please use this checklist over the next few weeks as you start Open Life Science program 🎉.

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Week 1: Meet your mentor!

• Meet mentor for 30 minutes
• Create an account on GitHub
• Check if you have access to the HackMD notes set up for your meetings with your mentor
• Prepare to meet your mentor(s) by completing a short homework provided in your shared notes
• Complete your own copy of the open leadership self-assessment and share it to your mentor
  If you're a group, each teammate should complete this assessment individually. This is here to help you set your own personal goals during the program. No need to share your results, but be ready to share your thoughts with your mentor.
• Make sure you know when and how you'll be meeting with your mentor.

Before Week 2: Cohort Call (Welcome to Open Life Science!)

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube

• Create an issue on the OLS-9 GitHub repository for your OLS work and share the link to your mentor.

• Draft a brief vision statement using your goals

  This lesson from the Open Leadership Training Series (OLTS) might be helpful

• Leave a comment on this issue with your draft vision statement & be ready to share this on the call

• Check the Syllabus for notes and connection info for all the cohort calls.

Before Week 3: Meet your mentor!

• Meet mentor
• Look up two other projects and comment on their issues with feedback on their vision statement
• Complete this compare and contrast assignment about current and desired community interactions and value exchanges
• Complete your Open Canvas (instructions, canvas)
• Share a link to your Open Canvas in your GitHub issue
• Start your Roadmap
• Comment on your issue with your draft Roadmap
• Suggest a cohort name at the bottom of the shared notes and vote on your favourite with a +1

Before Week 4: Cohort Call (Tooling and road mapping for Open projects)

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube
• Look up two other projects and comment on their issues with feedback on their open canvas.

Week 5 and later

• Meet mentor
• Create a GitHub repository for your project
• Add the link to your repository in your issue
• Use your canvas to start writing a README.md file, or landing page, for your project
• Link to your README in a comment on this issue
• Add an open license to your repository as a file called LICENSE.md
• Add a Code of Conduct to your repository as a file called CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
• Invite new contributors to your work!

This issue is here to help you keep track of work as you start Open Life Science program. Please refer to the OLS-9 Syllabus for more detailed weekly notes and assignments past week 4.

Week 6

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube
• Comment below to share your progress and link to resources for review with your peers and mentors below

Week 7

• Meet mentor
• Comment below to share your progress and link to resources for review with your peers and mentors below

Week 8

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube
• Comment below to share your progress and link to resources for review with your peers and mentors below

Week 9

• Meet mentor
• Comment below to share your progress and link to resources for review with your peers and mentors below

Week 10

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube
• Comment below to share your progress and link to resources for review with your peers and mentors below

Week 11

• Meet mentor
• Comment below to share your progress and link to resources for review with your peers and mentors below

Week 12

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube
• Comment below to share your progress and link to resources for review with your peers and mentors below

Week 13

• Meet mentor
• Comment below to share your progress and link to resources for review with your peers and mentors below

Week 14

• Attend call or catch up via YouTube
• Comment below to share your progress and link to resources for review with your peers and mentors below

Week 15

• Meet mentor

• Celebrate your participation!

• Share your presentation on Zenodo and share the link in the comment!

• Graduate! 🎓

[Jaim-gem]

[DRAFT #1] VISION STATEMENT

As a Digital Research Alliance (DRA) EDIA Champion, I aim to encourage the use of the DRA’s high-performance computing (HPC) resources for quantum computing education and research. Whilst these efforts would be extended to the interested field-relevant persons and groups within BC, particular focus will be placed in reaching members of visible minorities and women.
For the research aspect, I am hoping to present and promote an alternative HPC resource platform for quantum researchers within British Columbia, other than those which are more familiar or common in the field. With regards to education, I intend to target Vancouver Island schools for hosting introductory quantum computing workshops for high school students, particularly those with visible minority groups and women.

It is important that Canadian quantum researchers are aware of the HPC resources available to them so that they may themselves assess the most efficient and effective tools to make progress in the field. It is also important that visible minority groups and women are not limited to opportunities in choosing and advancing their careers in technological fields within Canada.

Contributions to the current project will come from affiliate researchers and personnel within the University of Victoria. Support will be garnered from Let’s Talk Science (LTS) Canada for science outreach events. The current target audience for these awareness campaigns are high school students within Vancouver Island and the quantum computing research network within BC.