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This week’s news in Open Science

• A special issue of Learned Publishing is all about data publishing. We contributed one of the articles, but you should read them all, or at least this one from the British Ecological Society, about their experiences with mandated data archiving.
• Do you have the skills to fight Ebola? If you can code, you can join the Computing for Ebola challenge, which runs from today until end of next week.
• Earlier this week we held a tweetchat about rare disease research, and discussed the importance of open data in this community.
• FOSTER call for open science training is now open. If you can train others on open science topics, FOSTER is inviting you to apply to run an event in 2015. Open to institutions from Europe, and deadline for application is November 3^rd.
• Staying in Europe, last week Neelie Kroes gave a speech about open science at the European Intersectoral Summit on Research and Innovation. You can leave your comments on the speech on her website.
• From Mozilla Science Lab, a list of open science projects. Anything missing? Add it to the list!
• Billy Meinke jotted down some open science thoughts on a plane. We’d love to see more!

Lots of time in the air = further riffing on the idea of a skills+curriculum map for #openscience. /cc @Kubke pic.twitter.com/07RQUrdh6o

— Billy Meinke (@billymeinke) October 2, 2014

• Finally, Open Access Week is rapidly approaching. We’re planning a few online events here at F1000Research, including a Reddit Science AMA on October 21^st (AMA stands for “Ask Me Anything”). Stay tuned for more on that and other fun things.