 Welcome to the presentation of Communities of Practice in Latin America, our and friends for user 2020. There is the shape of Latin America composed by the hex logos of the initiatives that will be presented. Next slide. This slide includes names and photos of 12 of the abstract authors from six countries, of the authors that accepted to contribute to this presentation when we cast a wide net to include as many as possible our reference and projects from Latin America, including experts. Next slide. Authors names and photos continue here with 12 others from nine countries. Next slide. Finally, this slide with 11 other authors from six countries. We didn't want, they didn't want or didn't have enough time to contribute their photos in the midst of the pandemic. These authors are a small subset of people representing all that is going on about our and friends in Latin America. The next minutes of this video will cover briefly several of the are related initiatives in the region. We will close the video sharing some lessons learned and how we see our future. We hope to inspire this type of development in other underrepresented regions in the art community. Next slide. Latin art is an international showcase for the use of our in research and development across Latin America. Since 2017, a group of highly motivated chairs built a team of volunteers from the art community in Latin America to help organize and run the event. Our meetings are growing each year over 200 participants from 15 different countries took part in the latest edition. The first meeting took place in some in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2018. The second in Santiago, Chile in 2019 and the 2020 edition was moved from Montevideo to white to a virtual format works in Spanish, Portuguese or English are presented by and to users of all levels. And from various academic or professional disciplines, along with outstanding international plenary talks and tutorials. The conference has an important networking role. Latin art allows, and most importantly, promotes interaction and long term collaboration among our users in Latin America. Our meetings have been a starting point for new packages, local user groups reading clubs, our ladies chapters translations and other initiatives in the region. We hope to continue growing and invite everyone to visit our website and to follow us on our social media channels. Next slide. Connecta era took place during January 2426, 2016 2019 at the University of Costa Rica in San Jose, Costa Rica. It was the first event in Central America and those endorsed by the art foundation and with and it was held completely in Spanish. Our goal was to provide a space to create a community among our users in industry academia, cities in science and teaching in the region, and we successfully managed to welcome our enthusiasts for 12 countries. The third day event consists of talks, workshop and a poster session from 150 registered participants 32% were female and 22% were full time students, professional from finance, government and data companies were present as well as faculty member from our major university in the country. Since then, the Costa Rica community has been growing and given the current situation we are planning to have a virtual edition at the beginning of the next year. Connect our 2021 is going virtual. Please stay connected and follow us on Twitter. Next slide. Another day is a conference about our in its application that happens all over the world. The events are organized by the local community, and we seek to make events with respectful and inclusive environment. The first Saturday event in Latin America was in Santiago in 2019 in Chile. And the second Saturday event happened in Sao Paulo, Brazil last year. And the idea of making the event in Sao Paulo started after some of the organizers saw a panel about Saturday's news hour last year. So other events are happening, a plan to happen, like the second edition in Santiago this year, which probably is going to happen online. But the organization of some of the events are uncertain because of the pandemic, like the first edition in Concepcion in Chile in the second edition in Sao Paulo. It's going to Saturday has an infrastructure to help to make easier to organize the event like we have a template to use in the website to sticker a conduct conduct, and most important we have a lot of other organizers that are happy to help each other. So if you've got interested to organize Saturdays in your local community, the first step is to read about it in the website Saturdays that are there's a lot of information there on how to get started. If you want to organize Saturdays anywhere in Latin America, please get in touch so we can help each other. Next slide. So our ladies is a global organization that promotes gender diversity in the art community. Currently it has 123 active chapters in 51 countries across the world. In Latin America, we have 49 chapters in 10 countries. In Latin America, one of the best represented regions chapter wise. The chapters started in 2017 with the first one being founded in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and it was quickly followed by eight other chapters founded that same year. It continues to grow until this day this year, for example, we had new chapters appearing in Mexico, the Galapagos and Argentina. Our members are also part of the Our Ladies Global team. COVID-19 has not stopped Our Ladies. We have switched our events online thanks to having access to a Zoom account from Our Ladies. One example of this switch has been Our Ladies La Paz in Bolivia, which they're a study group. They are using the Book R for Data Science in Spanish to motivate people from gender minorities, including women, to learn about R. Also, COVID has allowed or promoted collaborations between chapters, especially within countries and between countries as well. So we have some examples like Argentina that promoted their first step using Git or Chile, like with their club, which included several chapters within that country. And I'm part of the Ecuadorian team, and we are also organizing a series of webinars with the three chapters getting together. Hello, R for Open Science, commonly known as R OpenSide, provides free technical review of our packages to improve the quality of open source software in order to maximize readability, usability and usefulness, and at the same time minimize redundancy. R OpenSide pioneered the RUN conference on-cuff events that were engineered to mix new R developers with seasoned veterans to learn from each other and break down access barriers. The R OpenSide community now includes a number of Latin American members. For example, Laura Leonardo Armado met at on-cuff 2018 in Seattle, participate at R OpenSide and have collaborated beyond R OpenSide. The relationship between R OpenSide and Latin America and the Latin American community strengthened through the 2018 and 2019 Latin R conference, where Mayel Salmon presented R OpenSide and several community members share their experience. Latin Americans are now authors, peer reviewers, and guest editors of R OpenSide packages, including Chrome R, Git Ignore, Met Archive R, Mbik M, R Polyhedra, and Trade Statistics. Latin Americans also participated by sharing data, using and citing R OpenSide packages, engaging through GitHub issues, and joining R OpenSide community calls that are a great way for newcomers to get started. Furthermore, R OpenSide is in the process of expanding the R package peer review process to other languages, including Spanish. The discussion already started. You can follow it on R OpenSide's Twitter account or at ropenside.org. Personally, R OpenSide is a source of inspiration and a model community. Next slide. The community of bioinformatics software developers, or CDSB in Spanish, was born in 2018 with the goal of helping Latin American art users become art and bioconductor developers and increase the representation of Latin Americans in these communities. To achieve this, we have partnered with the Mexican Bioinformatics Network and the National Bioinformatics Note in Mexico to run a one-week long advanced R workshop alongside other introductory workshops. We have a Slack workspace to foster the community the rest of the year and have helped CDSB members navigate scholarship applications and prepare presentations or posters of late work. That is, we help reduce language barriers and advise those who might not have local guidance on how to navigate these systems. We have also provided project-specific guidance through monthly meetings and GitHub code feedback, which lead to the first CDSB art bioconductor package called ReguTools by Joseline, Carmina, and Emiliano, that you can find a preprint on bioarchive and which was recently accepted for publication. Bioconductor and the art consortium have provided us with support and a venue to share about our work, and we work on useful community building techniques from other like our open site, our ladies from Baltimore and Mexico City. Then we pass on this knowledge to other groups such as our ladies Queretaro and our ladies Cuernavaca. We like to highlight work by our members through our blog and we love to hear more about you to our Twitter at CDSB Mexico or to our website. For more information about us, check the link in the bottom. And finally, join us for our 2020 summer virtual workshop in Spanish August, tier two seven. Next slide. Today, there are several our user groups in Latin America. This shown here are only the quote and quote official are user groups sponsored by the art consortium, but there are also many other free range independent ones. When you join a user group, the expectation is most likely that you are mostly going to organize meetups and worships, but what it usually turns out is that the most meaningful moments are the informal ones. The after meetup of gathering the all day WhatsApp group. What what really fuels the group is a social interaction between its members, creating a welcoming and good natured space is crucial for keeping the ideas flowing. Many of us learned that from our ladies chapters in Latin America. This not only ensures that everyone's comfortable learning and sharing what they are, they've learned, but it also allows for surprising appearance of new projects. For example, the package present this was brewed in the Buenos Aires slack. It all started when Florencia shared a new package with data about victims of Chilean state terrorism during their last military government. Since Argentina suffered through a similar bloody military regime. Our first thought was, why don't we do the same here. Some conversations and several lines of code later. And we now have the percentage package, which Diego is presenting in this very conference. Next slide. The resources to learn are in English are many awesome online and free, but in Latin America, few people can afford to learn English and the resources in Spanish or few. To help solve this problem with the community translated from English to Spanish one of the best resources to learn are today. The book are for data science. This book is free online popular and now it's available in Spanish thanks to this community effort. From that book we also translate every data set for this we develop the package status and decided to engage first time contributors. The workflow is simple to translate the variables and values of a data set the contributor edits a single young file. This workflow has been effective and we're happy to announce is now guiding the development of a new version in Portuguese that will be released in the next few months. Next slide. While we were translating the book and developing that does a question arose. How do we share this community efforts with a broader audience. How can these products help to connect Spanish speaking users within the active our community in Twitter. People from Latin America were participating actively in Teddy Tuesday. Although this is a great opportunity for learning there are challenges that non English speakers users face that go beyond the scope of these initiatives, like dealing with encoding issues or working with algorithms and training data set customized to English language. And what about people that doesn't speak English. Data from your colleagues the Latin American casting of Teddy Tuesday was created with the same. It is not only to use data sets are in Spanish but also data sets that are relevant for people from our region. Currently we're exploring new ways of fostering the community with the student account. This year for example we decided to launch a 30 days database challenge called 30 days of graphics as a way to celebrate the work of floors nightingale. It was a great opportunity for people to learn collaboratively about database to share their insight and discoveries to highlight relevant data set for our community. And for us to foster the Spanish speaking our community, not only in Latin America, but around the world. If you want to participate proposing a data set for that of the miércoles, please visit our you to have account and say to for the next database challenge on our Twitter account. Next slide. The carpentry spills global capacity in essential data and computational skills for contacting efficient, open and reproducible research. Building a sustainable and active community in Latin America includes several initiatives. Lesson translations is structured training, workshop coordination and fundraising. How to contact us via the main list and the carpentry slack on the Carpentries underscore ES channel. What are our outputs, translating lessons to Spanish and incrementing workshops for the Latin America region. How are we growing network groups, short springs, supporting each other and I have seen with the carpentries to establish a strategic plan for regional growth. Next slide please. RIPROHAC is a growing community for researchers that are fighting the reproducibility crisis by sharing their experiences across disciplines. It is focused on organizing hackathons where participants attempt to reproduce Polish research from a list of proposed papers with public code and data. This way, participants have a had none experience to learn how to make a paper reproducible and the features that are needed to achieve this. By the end of the hackathon, it is provide a structure feedback to authors. During COVID lockdown, we hosted the first remote RIPROHAC so far which was very successful and had attendees from different countries and research fields. We are planning the first RIPROHAC in Spanish for October this year. Follow us on Twitter. I want to thank RIPROHAC team, Ana Ricardo, Linda Daniela and Paloma. Next slide. AI Inclusive is an organization that promotes the forest in the AI community. We want to bring awareness around artificial intelligence issues and empower the community so they can enter the AI field, a field that is not diverse at all. Our goal is to increase the representation and participation of gender minority groups in AI by opening doors, encouraging, inspiring and empowering people currently underrepresented in the AI community. In December 2019, we had our launch events in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and San Francisco, California. Together, we are building a community to make artificial intelligence more inclusive to everyone. Follow us and join us. Next slide. In May 2016, we started the first Data Latam podcast aimed at offering an easy entry point in Spanish to those interested in data science. We always ask our interviewees, how did you get where you are and the diversity of stories has been enormous. The podcast has documented role models for those members of the audience who want to start or continue their own career in data science. Most certainly for us interviewers, the stories have been inspiring. Soon after the podcast, we started organizing training events, always followed by a lunch. In this way, we highlighted the importance of creating an opportunity for networking in a group that shares an interest in our. By the same token, when we started the online webinars, we always began with a round of introductions, but this has become more difficult with the numbers of people currently assisting. To date, we have published 51 podcasts with more than 3000 people listening in each month in different countries in Latin America. We have published our monthly webinars on YouTube where we have more than 20,000 views of the content. Thanks to the participation and effort of many people, today Data Latam is a Latin American community of professionals and academics who apply data science in their day-to-day work. In our events, training sessions and extension programs, we will continue to explore technologies, learn about data science, talk about trends and relevance events in the industry, and share new developments in the field. We invite you to participate. Next slide. What happens in the art community doesn't stays in the art community. All the good practices of inclusive and diverse communities learning in several of the initiatives percent before, generating a strong work teams within and beyond the art community. Examples of new community and projects that go well beyond art are the study group for RStudio Instructor Training and Certification, the community translation of the book Teaching Texts Together, and Metalsensia, a teaching community to teach how to teach online to Spanish-speaking teachers in the wake of COVID-19. All these initiatives show how sustaining and coordinated work in addition has helped the art community to grow and has had an impact beyond it. There is still a lot to be done, but we have already achieved this very encouraging and provide a solid foundation for the future. Next slide. These initiatives are sustained by many people making a great effort behind the scenes, which is mostly voluntary. Some of the challenges that these communities face are translated into multiple, positive, sustained, and a lot of invisible hard work. For example, looking for international funding because regional funding is very limited, translating and generating content in our language because English is most of the times a barrier to access knowledge. Joining forces across organizations and gathering capacities which makes information, opportunities, and achievements more accessible and amplifies all voices louder. Organize our own international conferences in our own languages and bring other events from the global western north in our region. Promote and build spaces of representation in conferences and consolidated spaces in the international community, such as USAR, becoming developers of the technology instead of being only its users and its consumers, and thinking globally, acting locally, and considering the different realities within the region. Next slide. The Latin American art community is growing fast and so does the responsibility to make this growth solid and safe. Some of the future work that us as community builders look forward to fulfill are consolidating regional conferences with support of international support sponsors, sustaining through funded efforts the maintenance of translations as soon as the latest updates in English become available, amplifying the voice of minorities within and outside the region, bringing more educational and work related opportunities to the region, connecting Latin experts with their local communities, giving support to our ladies and rug chapters in those countries where the interest is present, but haven't found the space and support to start, actively participating in other communities such as forward and plan joint activities with other our communities like Africa are an MIR, increasing our and other minorities representation in the R core team, the R foundation and the R consortium. Next slide. Thank you. Thank you very much. Muchas gracias. Obrigado.