 So, hello, everyone. Welcome to our birds in the feather session and today we have two sessions in one. So first of all, they are ladies and then second is developers. Developers. Welcome. Welcome. Okay. And I will start today talk with you about they are ladies. So, my name is Daniela Casal and I am part of the by conductor community advisor, and I am also the co-founder of to our latest chapter. And to the, as I mentioned today, I want to talk about the global community involving our ladies, but also I have super exciting news that I'll be showing to you in the end of this presentation. Okay. Can you see these lights? The people. Okay. I see it ends up awesome. So, my, my first point here is like why we need initiatives like our ladies and why we need to talk about this. So, in the 2017 survey, the authors contact the grand package maintainers. Okay. And who self identified as a scientist, and they send out the contact them by email and they ask a few questions to answer that online. And as you can see in this plot, and this was just 2017, only 11% of the package maintainers who identify themselves like as a scientist where women women are now a non binary. And this is like something incredible for me. And also in the survey, they found out that 16% of the respondents self identified as being located outside Europe and North America, as we know that is super central. The developer of the package and users. They are users are super central to Europe and North America. In addition to that, 80% of the answers self identified as either having a complete PD or like they are in the process to get the degree. So, based on that is really clear that we need to have initiatives to fill this gap. And to try and to equilibrate and try to have a more proportional within the community. And now I would like to ask you a few questions. Have you a please and here please hands your, your hand and the people virtual also you can use the feature. Yeah. Thank you, Stephanie. Have you heard about our ladies. Okay. Well, cool. Nice. This is awesome. And have you ever attended the meetings. Okay. Okay. And are you a chapter organizer. Okay. Okay. To anyone local one here. Okay, so for those. Okay, this was my slide for those who doesn't know about our ladies are highly recommend you to watch. Last year's bioc conference keynote talk from Gabrielle de Keros. I think this is a awesome talk she talks about Gabrielle de Keros is the founder of their ladies, and it's awesome talk to understand these three behind our ladies. So really recommend you to watch that I had to hear the link so it's easy to find them slides, but also by probably you already noticed by bioconductor has a YouTube channel. And if it's does a good search you find that. And then there you can also see that they have an entire playlist with all the recordings for last year conference, besides like all the other recordings there. Also a nation that we have the developers forum and all the recordings for that also is done by a conductor so please check that out. And so they are ladies, it's here's the mission of the lady, the goal of their ladies is the order wise organization that promotes diversity in their study community via meetups and mentorship in a friendly and safe environment. So this is the mission this is division and this is the goal of the organization. But as as a volunteer organization, we, we know that we need a lot of people to organize organizations such as our ladies, and our ladies is organized with a global leadership, which is led by Claudia, Erin and Hannah. But also, when we need more people to do this work, and then we have volunteers that take care of the website, the blog, the Slack, the Twitter, and all the other activities like the mentorship. The directory will talk about more that in a moment, the emails and the code of conduct so we need a lot of people to organize and to have an organization as we have in the our ladies. And besides of that, our ladies also have the local leadership and what I meant that each city has one chapter. And if that local chapter, we do have a local co founders and the organizing of that chapter. So what I'm showing here to you is the global team, but we also have the local co founders and organizers. But now we understand what is the mission of their ladies and what and how is organized their ladies. Let's understand a little bit about the beginning, even though here probably everyone knows about this. But they are ladies is starting in 2000 was born into in 2012 in San Francisco. And the, as I mentioned before, Gabriella, the heroes is the founder of their ladies. And at the time, she was going to a lot of media meetups and in San Francisco. And she noticed that we need a safe and a welcome and a friendly environment to everyone to feel okay to ask questions to make comments and a welcome environment. So she decided to host the host, the first meetup our ladies. And then a few years past, and then other three chapter were created. And then in 2016, San Francisco and the London chapter, they got together and they use our conference. And they are ladies global work created. That's the way they are late early is global. We're committed. And then, as we know, as I was mentioned, a lot. We need a lot of people to organize such organization. Also, we need resources. We need money. So they, in 2016, when they found their latest level, they apply for their consortium and then our latest level was awarded with $10,000. So that helped them to establish the resources to develop and to grow other chapters around the world. And this is really impressive. So with that mark in the creation of their latest global in 2016. You can see how the growth of how many chapters around the world we have. And this I know this is 2020 plot, but as yesterday I'm sorry. Yesterday, I update this data. And as you can see here, we now have 216 chapters over 100,000 members in 61 countries, and then we are close to 4,000 almost 4,000 events. So it's, it's huge. It's a lot. And I'm super happy to be part of this, this community. Only one click. Okay. And other thing is like what to mention that in 2018, our ladies, God is long term support from the art consortium, which this means they don't need to renew this award every year. It's a long term of three years. And also our ladies became this top level project within the art consortium. So that is what is allowing to the organization to continue to grow and have the resources to be able to have all these meetups around the world. I'm free to pass here. So our ladies has a lot of initiatives and here I'm just highlighting a few as for instance, we have the communities like where you have many channels there to ask help to find peers. And it's a very nice community. I guess it's almost 5,000 people in this is like community. Also, they have, which I think is awesome. The abstract review process. So if you have abstract, you need to send to a conference or you are adding that in a paper, you can submit to a review and also you can sign up as a reviewer. So both of our links are on these lights. And also they have the mentoring program. Also, you can see the slides, the link there in those lights to sign up for the mentoring program. And they have the directory, which means that you can sign up and you can make you available to present. So if you are looking for someone to present, to give an workshop, a talk, you can visit this page and find ladies around the world. If you are willing to talk about the package they have, or wants to present the work they are doing, please check this out if you are organizing a workshop or any type of events. And also they are super active on Twitter. So if you don't know, please follow all the, our ladies Twitter accounts. And now I would like to invite Hedja to talk about one amazing initiative she's held with our ladies Tunis. Hi everyone. So I'm Hedja Tnani. I'm co-founder of Our Ladies Tunis. And can you hear me? Yes. Yeah, okay. So I am passionate about our and all related to programming and in 2020 we co-founded Our Ladies Tunis. We figured out that there was no an art community in North Africa and it was an amazing experience. But then the idea was, since I was doing bioinformatics work, how to connect bioconductor and R and all related, you know, to R and bioconductor. So we came out with this initiative called R for BioInfo. And it was about organizing free workshop for people coming from low income countries such as Tunisia, because in Tunisia we didn't have the opportunity to attend like workshops abroad. It was very expensive for us. And we came up with this amazing initiative, R for BioInfo. Please the next slide. Next slide please. Yeah. So we had amazing speakers such as Stephanie Hicks. Thank you very much. And Mike Love and Martin Morgan. And we had really, we organized 14 workshops about bioconductor, bioinformatics, and it was to give the opportunity to people from all over the globe, from people from Africa, from low income countries, no low income countries. Yeah, women or who everyone who wants to learn more about bioinformatics. So it was an amazing initiative. And here I show so one of the videos we have in YouTube, which reached 2000 views. So we had lots of you in YouTube and we've got many people asking for more workshops from these series. So if you want to learn more about this initiative, please, yeah, we have our Alley Distriniest YouTube channel where you can find all the workshops. And yeah, thank we, yeah, in the name of Alley Distriniest, I would like to thank all the speakers that were really nice and we really enjoyed those workshops and we learned a lot from them. So thank you a lot for these amazing talks. Thank you. Thank you, Daniela. Thank you. And then also you are talking about the YouTube channel from your initiative. I just remind myself that we do have our YouTube channel for the Ad Ladies, which I forgot to add here. Sorry about that. Also, like in that you can find the talks from different chapters. So it's like a hub of like all all the people who wants can add the videos there so you can also find like multiple videos in the Ad Ladies YouTube channel. Can I add something? Actually, when I joined Alley Distriniest, I didn't, well, I know about programming, but I've learned so much from all the Ad Ladies chapters. And they were really nice, you know, in like Spanish and all the language, English, even Arabic from, yeah, the like Alley Distriniest North Africa from Algeria, Morocco, and it was a great opportunity to join this, yeah, amazing community and to learn a lot, you know, from this amazing experience. So it was a great opportunity for me. Thank you. So the big question now is like, are you ready to join us? And to do that, it's super easy because with this link, you can visit this mirab.com, our ladies, and you can find the list of all the chapters so you can search for the chapter around you. However, if your city doesn't have a chapter, it's also super easy to create a chapter. So the first thing you need to do is just send an email to infoatourlades.org and they'll send you all the information, everything you need to know and everything, all the steps in this process. But also, I'm super happy, like, be honored to answer any questions you may have with that, because as I mentioned, I already co-found some chapters. So if I can answer the question and point you the right direction in that, I'm happy to help anyone who wants to do that or have questions related to that. And also, recently, we have the Our Ladies Remote. So then is like another chapter that you can also participate. But most of our ladies, I'm seeing, like, they're still hosting because of the pandemic. We are all hosting events on Zoom. So it's easy and super nice sometimes, like, you can go to Canada or you can go to Poland and then you can go all places or go to Tunisia and then see other places. Other events are organized for, like, all the ladies around the world. And finally, here is our big news that, okay, here. We are organizing the Our Ladies Biosy Hub. So this is an initiative to bring together the Our Ladies community with the bioconductor community as well. We are just setting up this so we don't know all the details, but please stay tuned because we are posting soon all the details about, like, how this will be. It will be, of course, online, a remote event. But we are posting on the social media everywhere, like, how this will work. And so stay tuned for the Our Ladies Biosy. And with that, I would like to open a discussion because we are starting this Our Ladies Biosy. But my question to you all is, like, what are the types of events you like to see there? Is it a workshop, it's talks, it's tutorials, package a demo, or other suggestions. And then also one of the questions is how we can improve network mentorship and support the community. So I would like to open this discussion. And also, if you point your phone to the QR code, we create a Google form to you give is an open Google form and remain open to anyone to give us suggestions and ideas. And also if you want to present or help organize any of these activities, please let us know. Oh yeah, so on this like we just created on by conductors like we just created this channel called Our Ladies. So please join that channel as well. And I love to hear what your suggestions and any feedback. I believe the people online can, yes. They can unmute and talk. Yeah. Great. Okay. Thank you so much. I guess like one thing that I struggle with. So my name is Stephanie Hickson. I run a local Our Ladies community in Baltimore, Maryland. And I one of the things I struggle with is not wanting to impose too much genomics on the Our Ladies community in Baltimore because there are a lot of people who do other things besides genomics. And so I've struggled with the balance, I guess. And Hopkins has a large medical community, so there's a lot of demand for it. But then we also have a lot of people in the local DC area who come for events and things. And I was just wondering if you, Danny, or others have thoughts on that striking that balance. For me, it was the same thing because I always wanted to invite it. So that was one thing, I guess, we come up with this idea to have their Ladies Biosy. Because I always want to invite everyone from Biosy for my local chapter. So I guess I also struggle with the same thing. And for me, talking about my experience, I struggle with finding people. Because I know some people, but I would like to have a more diverse people, not just the people I know. So I guess having a directory is easy to contact people, to find people by a field or by the area they are working with or the language they talk. Also, I guess it's really helpful. And it's one of the things I struggle the most, I guess. Adina or Lauren, you want to comment on that? My basic struggle was the same thing. Well, that and trying to get people, I guess, initially. So I'm trying or trying or it's been a little bit of a hiatus to start a chapter in Buffalo, but it was very slow. And I was trying to think of ways to get more people involved as well as struggling with finding presenters. So I'm still kind of balancing the idea. And at least for me, my initial search for help in doing that was also trying to get the local universities and institutions involved too. And like going back to my own computer science department and some of the professors that I had to try to get them involved. It's still a work in progress, but that's kind of where I'm going with it and trying to do it and get it off the ground. But I am, I am really sitting there right now to get the bubble checker off the ground. As I'm trying to remember the Twitter password for the Buffalo, our ladies Twitter account. I don't know, do we have other our ladies on the calls. So you like to share your experience. Yes, actually about like in our latest units, we tried to split like the R for bio info in data science. So we had two teams one working on data science like workshops and the other team, the one I was leading the R for bio info. And that's how we were trying to balance a little bit because also in our team, we had people from coming from data science. And I was a person about bioinformatics and trying every time to look for like a speaker, like to organize a workshop about like bioinformatics. So and the issues we were having is the language because in Tunisia, we talk Arabic and French. So not many people are fluent in English. So yeah, we had this big issue actually. Can I just ask what is the format of our ladies because I attended personally pie ladies, which was like a course. It was basically do you want to learn how to do Python. And they really like introduce you. Well, if you write a equals one, then you type a it returns you want so it went like like straight from scratch. So like I'm just wondering, is it is this just more like workshop you are expected to have some, you know, prior our experience or, or is it more like a course you can also learn how to how to code. How to code from scratch. I'm just wondering my experience intending it it's kind of whatever the local chapter wants. So in Boston at least where I attended it the work courses like that that took things from scratch and gave courses. But then after that was done there was a series of kind of various different workshops from different people in different industries talking. So it kind of just went with the interests I think of the organizers as much as I think that's but it wasn't just like a repeating intro to our course. Yeah, yeah, I have the same experiences I guess is that they are leaders global doesn't impose any format is basically what the local chapter or the local community is interesting name. So if the local community is looking for more like intro, then you may have that. But for instance, in the chapter I organized in Riverside, California, a lot of the people who show up are from the knowledge department. So then we had some talks like how they use like this kind of specific to what they do like and then what they are looking for. So at the beginning, for instance, in our chapter, we did a survey to see like, what are you looking for? We did this first meeting, we call like everything everyone who like wanted to participate and then we ask, what are you looking for? And then we try to achieve that to provide that. So I guess there is no rules or like established format is what you want to create or what your community is looking. Kind of the same question here, what is the bio conductor community is looking for? So then, as we are organizing a new chapter, our latest by see how we can help the bio conductor community. What would you find most useful? So that's based, I don't know, but you know, like in terms of kind of advertising it to other people, I just kind of like wanted to know what the format is because based on that, you kind of find your audience, right? So like if it's like coding from scratch, you can also like, you know, there might be girls in high schools that are interested in like getting heads up before like going to college, you know, or if it's bio conductor, for example, or like biological data There are so many people in molecular biology, breaking out about breaking out about bioinformatics and entering computational biology. So just like maybe kind of like addressing these kind of like biologists, maybe something like this, you know, I and I know that everyone is just like, Oh, I know how to how to do what lab. And I'm just really, I know that, you know, computational biology is important. I just have no idea like where to start and I know that they're scared. So like I'm just like, you know, I think that their first has to be kind of what is the purpose, and then you can find your target audience kind of, I guess. So that's what I was asking. Okay, we have, I saw Susan, but I want to make one point here. Sometimes your community you have people looking for a basic like from where they start, and as you have more advanced people. So how is like, I see the opposite. What are you saying, because for me, like if you want to have the community together, you need to have a way not to be like just providing basic. But also you need to bring the community together to have the advanced people. So the way I see is like, if you have a base, let's let's call basic in advance, basic and events, people in the same room, the advanced can help the basic starting in that in the process. So, I don't know if you will need to find first what we propose, rather than see what the community is looking that and then we can attend that or maybe do something as Stephanie was saying how you calibrate that between everything the community is looking for. Because we can do that. We can actually have series of workshops or talks or anything to different targets within the community. I don't know, Susan. Yeah, I think that I wouldn't talk about people in the same room right now because I'm sort of more geared towards doing a lot of online work. In the context of more global, our ladies global and getting to countries where there's not the same resources. But I think that it's not so much organizing a workshop or a tutorial, then teaching people how to navigate what exists. And people, of course, we don't know what we don't know. And having discussions about, okay, here's a career path or here's a path that gets you from A to B. In your knowledge, you'll have to do this, this and this. That's more useful. Because there's so many YouTube videos, there's so much material available, but it's very hard to navigate. And so having more sort of panel discussions and answering questions and explaining, you know, this is how to get started. This is the next step, you know, what the paths are, I think is really important. And that's what we can provide. And I know you said, stay tuned for the BioC help, but could you actually talk about a little bit more? I mean, you can't show me that little sticker and not. It's because it's really new. We don't know all the details. I'm sorry about that. Okay. I don't know if you can figure out the details, but it's basically another chapter, but focus on the Our Lady is BioC. Okay. Yeah, I don't know. I'm still navigating the details, how we set up because of the remote. But yeah, stay tuned. Okay, if I can promise that. I'll be patient. What's your name? I'm Jen. Okay, yeah. Oh, do people want to sign up to help? Yeah. That's like the big other thing here is she would love to have other people to help us. Yes, please. Okay, she's volunteering there. Anybody here wants to help? On that Google form and on the QR code, I have a question there, like, if you want to help, please let us know. And if you didn't get that, just like, Slack us at the CAB. Yeah. Yeah. And then there are ladies channel on. Yeah. There's a new our ladies channel and a community conductor. Yeah. So can I just ask. So is, I know the title is our ladies, but so non binary people can join or everyone clear people. So it's just like ladies every one name, but not necessarily everyone representative group. Okay. Thank you. And well, not strictly our ladies, just to find out the other side, there is a diverse by a C community Slack channel that aims at all diversity and inclusion as well. So that's another Slack channel that would be good for communication. Yeah, everyone. And I don't think our ladies is restricted to ladies like Mike. No, no, no, no. Actually, guys that want to help. Yeah. If you look at the definition is for represented people. Okay. All right. Thank you. We start. Yeah, we switch over to the developers group now. Mark, did you get my slides? I just like. Did you just put them up? Slides I emailed you.