Mozilla Study Groups in Brasil

[bkatiemills]

@rodrigopadula and I were just talking about how great it would be if we could get a series of Study Groups started up around Brasil. But, we need a plan to move this forward effectively. Some rough steps we talked about:

1. Get this repo translated into Portuguese on a Portuguese branch (help wanted!). Translation of other assets like the Handbook can come later, but this repo is key.
2. Start a few groups around Brasil. I know @pcjunger has one coming for UFRJ, and @rodrigopadula is looking into ICUFF. One or two more around the country would be a great start.
3. Once there are two or three groups started, we should start a monthly google hangout in Portuguese, lead by the local community. We do one in english so far (which everyone is welcome to join in on), but one organized regionally would be a great addition.

This is a pretty simple plan so far - any ideas or details I'm missing? Please feel free to forward / cc anyone else who might like to help out with this!

[pcjunger]

That sounds like a great starting point @BillMills and @rodrigopadula. I'm currently approaching the end of my Masters, thus time is limiting, but I will be glad to spend all time I have left to help out with this plan.

I've contacted a few colleagues from other Universities who might be interested in founding more R study groups around Brazil. @paternogbc @Ewaldoj @LucianoFSgarbi would you guys be interested in starting up a Mozilla Science Study Group at UFRN and UFG, respectively? It couldn't be simpler than it actually is. Let us know in case you have any doubts. The more we are, the quicker we can step forward!

[rgaiacs]

@ctruciosm, @lbenitesanchez, @ocefpaf and @fernandomayer Do you have interest on this?

[paternogbc]

Hi all,

Could you please provide more information about this idea?
What is the main aim of these study groups?

Cheers,
G

[lfsgarbi]

What is the aim of this study group?

2015-10-06 8:48 GMT-03:00 Gustavo Paterno notifications@github.com:

Hi all,

Could you please provide more information about this idea?
What is the main aim of these study groups?

Cheers,
G

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Luciano F. Sgarbi
Currículo Lattes
http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.do?id=K4299200T7
Laboratório de Ecologia Teórica e Síntese
Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas V.
Universidade Federal de Goiás, campus II, Goiânia-GO, Brasil

[pcjunger]

Hi @paternogbc and @LucianoFSgarbi, sorry for including you without providing further information. This idea is all about open science. You can find the general idea in the readme.md file in this repository: https://github.com/mozillascience/studyGroup

This Study Group repo is part of the Mozilla Science Lab project: https://www.mozillascience.org

I've just created a group for ecologist at UFRJ, which you can access here: https://github.com/pcjunger/studyGroup
It would be awesome building a great network in Brasil.

Anyway, that's all very new for me. Perhaps @BillMills can give you more details and properly answer your questions.

[paternogbc]

Hi @pcjunger, thanks for the update! ;)

I will have a look, but the idea sounds very interesting.
I am very kin to open science and reproducible research.

I can start a group in my university, just need to check how the group works and what are the activities that we should organize.

All the best,
G

[rgaiacs]

If people want to talk in Portuguese let me know. =)

[paternogbc]

Português então. kkk Fiquei confuso pq todo mundo escreveu em inglês. Mas vamos lá.

O primeiro passo então é traduzir esse repositório para pt, certo?
Eu posso criar o "branch" inicial e começar a tradução. Alguém pode ajudar nessa tarefa?

Abraços,
Guga

[paternogbc]

@BillMills should we create a portuguese branch or a fork from the original repo?

Thanks,
G

[pcjunger]

hahaha..continuei escrevendo em inglês pq o cara que abriu a discussão não é brasileiro, mas uma das ideias é preparar o terreno para que as discussões possam acontecer em português tbm :-)

De qualquer forma, obrigado pelo entusiasmo! Eu posso te ajudar nessa tarefa @paternogbc, let's wait for @BillMills reply.

[rodrigopadula]

Olá pessoal, desculpem-me pela demora. Estou bem enrolado com o doutorado esses dias mas vamos lá!!!

A idéia é estimular a criação de vários grupos de estudo em universidades brasileiras para que possamos desenvolver projetos, estudos e principalmente compartilha código e conteúdo através do github. Venho conversando com o pessoal da Mozilla há algum tempo e a idéia é fazer um intercambio entre academia e comunidade mozilla também. Temos atualmente uma comunidade Mozilla Brasil bem forte www.mozilla.org.br e pretendemos envolver mais gente na luta por uma web cada vez mais aberta e democrática, acessível a todos!

[rodrigopadula]

Conversei com o @BillMills no último domingo e concluimos que a melhor estratégia seja criar pequenos grupos em nossas universidades, amadurecer um pouco mais a idéia e daí poderemos partir para eventos e encontros regionais/nacionais. Criar um hub local entre universdades de um mesmo estado/cidade ja seria um ótimo começo. Estou atualmente na UFF mas fiz meu mestrado na UFRJ no PPGI. Então podemos contar com apoio do pessoal de computação de ambas! Comentei com o @BillMills que vou solicitar à mozilla a criação de uma lista de emails para que possamos trocar idéias e convidar mais gente para esse empreitada! Qualquer dúvida podem entrar em contato comigo também, participo das atividades da Mozilla no país desde 2006 ativamente.

[Ewaldoj]

Olá pessoal, boa noite. Também estou meio perdido, mas vou me ambientar no
site e pegar mais informações para discutir melhor.

@paternogbc, sou aluno de graduação da Ecologia (UFRN) e posso falar com
você na quinta feira, antes ou depois da sua apresentação do bioforum,
sobre esse assunto. Eu me apresento para você lá, :)
On 6 Oct 2015 6:32 pm, "Pedro C Junger" notifications@github.com wrote:

hahaha..continuei escrevendo em inglês pq o cara que abriu a discussão não
é brasileiro, mas uma das ideias é preparar o terreno para que as
discussões possam acontecer em português tbm :-)

De qualquer forma, obrigado pelo entusiasmo! Eu posso te ajudar nessa
tarefa @paternogbc https://github.com/paternogbc, let's wait for
@BillMills https://github.com/BillMills reply.

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[paternogbc]

Opa beleza, valeu @Ewaldoj! Nos encontramos por lá então.

[bkatiemills]

Hi everyone,

@paternogbc & @LucianoFSgarbi, what was said by @pcjunger is pretty much exactly correct; Study Groups are informal, community organized meetups to talk about open science, reproducible research, and the skills needed to do that. Existing Study Group activities have been:

• Hands on demo sessions of a tool, programming language or other technique. These are the most popular sessions, since they focus on teaching & building skills. You can see links to lists of many of the lesson notes here.
• Coworking sessions, where people bring whatever they are working on at the time, and work on it while talking to each other and looking for chances to get feedback or collaborate.
• Journal clubs, where someone suggests a couple of papers and the group discusses them.
• Code review sessions, (a new thing just starting out), where someone presents some code they've written, and everyone discusses ideas for improving or learning from the example.

These are just a few ideas, but the most important thing is that Study Group is lead by you and your community - whatever your attendees want to talk about or work on is what you should do. Then, we're trying to encourage people to share back their lessons or ideas with other Study Groups around the world, so we can learn from each other and reuse each other's work.

@paternogbc, I would love to see a portuguese branch in this repo. It's important to have all the forks coming from the same repo, since that's how I keep track of who is joining the program and starting new groups. With a portuguese branch, it would be possible to serve the website in Portuguese in two lines:

branch -D gh-pages
git branch -m portuguese gh-pages

Actually, it may even be possible right from within github, without having to do any command line git at all. Let me know what you think, and if there are any ways I can help!