The Problem: An Impedance Mismatch

• Scientists have high-powered workstations or even supercomputers
• Readers have smartphones
• Science journalists are caught in the middle

Target Users

• Science journalists with a mobile audience

Challenges

• Reproducibility
  • Readers want you to "show your work".
• Device constraints
  • Mobiles have small screens, limited processor, RAM, storage and bandwidth.
• Distracted or multitasking readers
  • "One eyeball and one thumb".

repjourn.mobi Components

• RStudio IDE (preview release 0.98b)
  • The 'gold standard' in reproducible research
• R Markdown — Dynamic Documents for R
  • Translate Markdown to HTML/CSS via Pandoc
• rOpenSci
  • Software Carpentry tools for scientists
• Mozilla Firefox OS Application Developer Tools
  • Gaia Building Blocks
  • Brick

Plan

1. Looking for sponsors
   • Knight Prototype Fund grant proposal submitted
2. Acquire repjourn.mobi domain
   • Done
3. Integrate RStudio and Mozilla tools / marketplace
4. End-to-end testing on ZTE Open
   • Prototype 'story' (probably from finance)
   • Stretch goal - test on Android "Fennec" Firefox browser
5. Extensive testing with readers

Licenses, etc.

• Code: GNU Affero General Public License
• Documentation: Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
• Location: Private repo on GitLab
  • ETA for alpha release: June 27, 2014 at Open Source Bridge
  • If anyone wants to test before then, tweet @znmeb