Building a community of reflexive feminist researchers to learn together, teach other, and advocate for better research practices.
Welcome to ORReries! Thank you for visiting the ORReries repository. We're excited to have you here!
This document (the README file) is here to tell you about ORReries. Scroll down to find out more!
ORReries works with researchers to create and share understanding of what it means to research in a reflexive and feminist way, and to build tools for researchers to develop these skills, teach others, and advocate for feminist reflexive research practices in their communities.
Researchers who want to make their research feminist and reflexive can use ORReries to find resources to help them and to communicate and connect with other researchers. They can also contribute to ORReries to help other researchers.
ORR stands for Open Reflexive Research.
Open: these materials and this community are built on open principles. Mozilla defines open working as a way of working in which "everyone is invited to collaborate on something amazing, and any new product or knowledge is shared widely and freely."
Reflexive: paying attention to how research and researchers shape each other and how they are influenced by - and influence - their contexts.
Research: broadly defined - any work that aims to find something out!
Orreries are models of the Solar System. They are tools which helped early astronomers make sense of the ways that celestial bodies moved. As well as being clever pieces of engineering, they are often beautifully designed. Orreries don't capture everything we know about how the universe works: but they are a good place to start and help us go further in our work.
ORReries is a very new project! It has a basic roadmap which sets out some short-, medium- and long-term tasks.
Currently the best way to get involved is to open an issue or a pull request in this repository. The best way to contact the team is to open or comment on an issue.
Do you have a question about ORReries? Or a suggestion for something to add or improve? Or have you noticed something that isn't working and needs to be fixed? The best way to reach other contributors for all of these is to open an issue.
To open an issue, you need to have a GitHub account: if you don't have one yet, you can register for a free account here. Once you have an account, log in and then follow these steps to open an issue. Your issue will be visible to anyone who looks at the repository. Once the issue is opened, you can edit it. Other people can also respond with comments, questions and suggestions.
Issues are really useful to suggest improvements, ask questions, or describe tasks in a GitHub repository. You can see a list of currently opened issues here. If you have any suggestions on how to address these, we want to hear from you: please leave us a comment!
This work is licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
