Evolving Open Source Practices in Science
Max Franz | A Network50 Spotlight
Max Franz is a software engineer, specializing in user-interface design, who currently works at the University of Toronto. He is an open research advocate within his organization and in the wider community. He has been active in the internet health movement as an Open Project Lead and a MozFest volunteer. He is a member of our first cohort of “Network50.”
Max has been a huge contributor to Open Science through his participation in many open research and working open initiatives. He has helped many others in the Mozilla communities understand and adopt open working principles through his contributions and presentations at Global Sprint 2015, Global Sprint 2016 and MozFest 2015/16.
In all his interactions Max has shown himself to be eager to learn things, help others succeed and take on challenges while building out his technical and leadership skills.
Over the course of the past few years, Max has emerged as a leader not only on his project, Cytoscape.js, but also in the broader community, helping to continually evolve our common understanding of open source practices in science.
