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-params:
- cohort_name: "[ Cohort Name ]"
- cohort_name_long: "[ Cohort Name Long ]"
- date_start: "2022-01-28"
- date_interval: 2 #every other week
- num_meetings: 5
- time_start: "12:00pm PT"
- duration: 90
- google_drive_folder: ""
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-
-
-# `r params$cohort_name_long` Openscapes Champions Cohort
-
-Welcome to the `r params$cohort_name_long` Openscapes Champions Cohort! To learn more about what to expect (the purpose, outcomes, and process of our Cohort), please read the homepage of the [Champions Program Lesson Series](https://openscapes.github.io/series).
-
-
-
-## Cohort Agendas
-
-We will meet as a Cohort via Zoom four times over two months for 1.5 hours .
-
-- **Dates: `r params$date_start-to-date_end-alternating-weeks` **
-- **Times: `r params$time_start-to-1.5 hours later ET or PT`**
-- **Location: Remotely, via Zoom**
-
-Agendas are accessible to Cohort participants in our [Cohort Google Drive Folder](`r params$google_drive_folder`); they are also an archive of our live google-docing. Please see to view blank versions of the agendas.
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-Cohort Call Agendas | Series Chapters | Between Cohort Calls
-------------------|----------------------|---------------------------
-1. Openscapes mindset | [mindset](#mindset), [better science in less time](#bsilt) | Seaside Chat (trailhead)
-2. GitHub for publishing & project management | [publishing](#github-pub), [project management](#github-issues) | Seaside Chat: shared organizing with GitHub
-3. Team culture and data strategies for future us | [team culture](#team-culture), [data strategies](#data-strategies) | Seaside Chat (code of conduct);
Co-working
-4. Open communities and coding strategies for future us | [open communities](#communities), [coding strategies](#coding-strategies) | Seaside Chat (pathway); Co-working
-5. Pathways share and next steps | |
-
-[**Cohort Call Digests**](`r paste0(params$github_repo, "issues")`)
-
-## Participating teams
-
-Some brief information about participating teams. Teams, please add any edits directly (we'll learn how in our GitHub Clinic!)
-
-
-## Openscapes team
-
-**Julie Lowndes**, Openscapes Co-Director, NCEAS, UCSB, is co-leading
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-**Erin Robinson**, Openscapes Co-Director, Metadata Game Changers, is co-leading
-
-
-## More about Openscapes and the Champions program:
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-* **[Our path to better science in less time using open data science tools](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0160)** (Lowndes et al 2017, _Nature Ecology & Evolution_) - this paper greatly influences the whole Champions program and we’ll ask that everyone participating reads it before our first Cohort Call on September 9.
-* **[Openscapes: Better Science for Future Us](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HGw4P095-lblHiGQHXYidHiVysjrPxuojxTxKtE13vk/edit#slide=id.ge2b7c2f974_0_2017)** - 2021 plenary talk at the Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology (SORTEE) inaugural conference
-* **[Openscapes embraces kindness and inclusion in open science](https://sparcopen.org/impact-story/openscapes-embraces-kindness-and-inclusion-of-open-science/)** - 2021 article about Openscapes
-* **[openscapes.org](https://openscapes.org/)**
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