How to join this free online event with Beatriz Milz, Carolina Pradier and Victor Ordu.

Champions programs are designed to identify, recognize, and reward emerging leaders within a community. The rOpenSci Champions Program is part of a series of activities and projects we are carrying out to ensure our research software serves everyone in our communities, which means that it needs to be sustainable and open, and built by and for all groups.

On this call Beatriz, Victor Ordu and Carolina Pradier will share their experience of being rOpenSci mentors and champions. We will highlight the benefits of being part of the program for you and for your community, what kind of learning, activities and opportunities an open source community champions program provides. Yani will present the details of our Champion Program and answer all your question about it.

See below for speaker bios and resources.

Speakers

Beatriz Milz

I’m a mentor in the rOpenSci’s Champions Program. I’m an R-Ladies co-organizer in São Paulo – Brazil and a Ph.D. Candidate in Environmental Sciences at University of São Paulo. I also work as a Data Scientist and an R teacher at Curso-R. I am a tidyverse instructor certified by Posit, and a co-organizer of communities and events, such as Latin-R, R-Ladies São Paulo and satRday São Paulo.

Victor Ordu

I’m a medical doctor with many years of experience in the Nigerian healthcare space. I’m an independent consultant for the UN and international NGOs working in Nigeria, and R has been the focus of much of my work. I also conduct R training programs for public and private organizations in Nigeria. I’m the author of R packages; one is part of my project as rOpenSci Champion.

Carolina Pradier

I am an economist and data scientist. I have a degree in Economics, and I am currently finishing my Master’s degree in Labour Studies, both at the University of Buenos Aires. I work as a research and teaching assistant at CEPED-UBA and I’m also an active member of Ecofeminita’s economics and data team (ecofemidata) and maintainer of the eph R package, which is my project as rOpenSci Champion.

Resources

• R package on Nigeria and for Nigeria, The goal of naijR is to make it easier for R users to work with data related to Nigeria. This package is going through the rOpenSci software peer review.
• eph – Toolbox for the processing of the Permanent Household Survey in Argentina, package to download and manipulate the Permanent Household Survey from Argentina (eph is the Spanish acronym for Permanent Household Survey)
• Champions Program, web page with details about the champion program.