OS101 Study Group in Spanish hosted by MetaDocencia 🍎

[lauracion]

Dear TOPS Community,

I am here to report that yesterday Misión Exploración hacia la Ciencia Abierta got started. It was very successful! It is a Spanish-speaking study group for OS101, masterfully led by Melissa Black, OS101 SME and OpenSciency contributor. We had almost 30 participants connecting from Mexico, Colombia, Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil, and Spain. All of them were researchers and technicians from a wealth of disciplines, including, but not limited to, Biology, Bioinformatics, Political Sciences, Communication, Anthropology, Library Sciences, Statistics, Geography, and Medicine.

We shared our experience of getting the Module 1 badge from a Latin American lens. Module 1 got very positive feedback regarding the design, its content, and ease of reading. The quizzes were also praised. The number of acronyms and the reaction time of the animations got some of us in trouble, and some participants knew they would have to go back to the material due to the wealth of links to explore. Most of us would have preferred to read the content directly in Spanish as it would have been faster, but we know that is coming. We are supporting each other asynchronously through MetaDocencia's Slack to go over the whole MOOC until getting all the badges.

We were lucky to have persons in the audience with a lot of regional experience in open science, which generated a lively exchange about Latin Americans' points of view on open science ethos, pros and cons, and what is feasible from Latin America. This study group is essential for the contextualization into Spanish that MetaDocencia is doing. We are thrilled with the great response to this Mission.

Everyone is welcome if you want to join. In this link (in Spanish 😅 ), you have all the information you need: https://www.metadocencia.org/eventos/.

Best,
Laura

[bressler95tops]

Thank you for sharing that resource @lauracion. It is exciting to hear that there are groups of researchers and others from many scientific disciplines and cultures gathering to share the knowledge of Open Science from our curriculum.

As you noted there are efforts underway for a Spanish translated version of the curriculum and I am glad you are supporting each other as a group before that happens. If there are any stories that you would like to share about your experiences from the Latin American lens, I would definitely suggest submitting a story here or engaging in conversation right here in GitHub discussions.