The INTERACT Incubator isn't just a network -- it's a working group. Our charge is to collaboratively envision next-generation research infrastructure for improving equity in STEM education. This page contains resources and materials relevant to the incubator's collaborative work.
Membership in the INTERACT incubator carries a set of expectations for how members interact with one another, share their ideas, and contribute to a vision for future infrastructure solutions. These expectations are outlined in the following agreements, which are requested of all incubator members:
- Code of Conduct: The purpose of the code is to set basic, unambiguous standards for network members’ behaviors, and for the effects of members’ behaviors. In the incubator we will be discussing issues related to equity in education and beyond, and these can be sensitive topics. We establish that members are responsible for helping to inform and correct others in good faith when necessary. At the same time, individual members are responsible for their own actions.
- Intellectual Property Agreement: All incubator members maintain individual ownership of the research designs ideated and shared with the incubator. We want to encourage free sharing of ideas, minimizing concerns that individuals need to be protective of their future plans. This agreement preserves individual ownership of research ideas, credit attribution, and authorship status. At the same time, the incubator is charged to outline a consensus infrastructure that would support these research ideas; the design of this research infrastructure will not be owned by individual members, although it will be made open source.
- (Optional) Media/Photography Release: We want to document and highlight our work at the in-person convenings, and we request members to agree to a standard media/photography release, if they are willing to do so. This is not required.