# IOI jargon Last updated: 2023-06-20 URL for this page: https://hackmd.io/@investinopen/jargon URL for this site: https://hackmd.io/@investinopen/how-we-work --- This page is under construction. :hammer_and_wrench: --- This page is meant to list and explain evolving terms, acronyms, and nicknames used by IOI staff in internal communications. --- AB = Amy Buckland. Arcadia = Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin; one of IOI's philanthropic funders. B + O = Weekly business and operations meeting. BnO = Weekly business and operations meeting. Civi = CiviCRM, IOI's internal database for tracking contact information of collaborators and stakeholders. Clarifying questions = Cobudget = Collective or participatory funding. COI = Conflict of interest. COIs = Catalog of Open Infrastructure Services. Collaborator Call = Quarterly virtual meeting for leaders of aligned initiatives, institutions, consortia, and funders to share knowledge, identify collective action opportunities, and build relaionships. Community discussion = CSS = Code for Science and Society, IOI's fiscal sponsor. CZI = Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, an IOI sponsor. CY = Calendar year. DPA = [Data processing agreement](https://hackmd.io/@investinopen/standards#Vendors). Deliverable = DI = Digital infrastructure. ECB = ED = Executive director. Focus task = FOS = [Future of Open Scholarship](https://investinopen.org/research/future-of-open-scholarship/) research project. Friday blogpost = Biweekly "[What We Are Working On](https://investinopen.org/tag/friday-updates/)" blogpost. Started 2022-02. FY = [Fiscal year](https://hackmd.io/@investinopen/standards#Fiscal-year). Infra Costs = [Costs of Open Infrastructure](https://investinopen.org/research/costs-of-open-infrastructure/) research project. JROST = Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools. KT = Kaitlin Thaney, IOI Executive Director since 2020-03. Mellon = Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, one of IOI's philanthropic funders. OI = Open scholarly infrastructure. OKR = Objectives and key results. OOO = Out of office. The Packet = IOI's annually updated orientation packet (or guide), intended especially for new members of our governance bodies. PI = Preliminary research investigation. Probing questions = PTO = Personal time off. R + S = Research and Strategy, a former division of IOI. In operation 2022-01 through 2022-12. Research weekly stand-up = Weekly meeting of the research team. Scoping = Shared notes = Single source of truth = Steering = IOI's steering committee. Thursday team meeting = Weekly research meeting. Toxic positivity = Tuesday team meeting = Weekly business and operations meeting. ## Further reading * [The upside of workplace jargon: Acronyms and slang can help build cultures and improve efficiency](https://www.economist.com/business/2023/06/15/the-upside-of-workplace-jargon), The Economist, 2023 ## See also * https://hackmd.io/@investinopen/oitp-acronyms * https://hackmd.io/@investinopen/who-is-who --- This page first published: 2023-01-30 ###### tags: `about-us` `process` `onboarding` --- <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />This work is made available under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</a>. Users are free to share, remix, and adapt this work. (Please attribute [Invest in Open Infrastructure](https://investinopen.org/) in any derivative work).