Ricardo @ametodico
About the opencon, i enjoy a lot of stuff... i disagree also, but the main issue that i carry on is i can learn of openess, and learn a lot more now, but im returning to my university where, in some way, i feel alone, and can not influence the people thsat maube the next month will be going to another open related conference, being super empowered and “my voice” is so dificult to arise. It is not equal than in europe or usa. The guys involved are very specialized or focused people... but in latam is far away from how they build society.
So everybody talk about socialism in SA, however we are in a savage capitalism, so if the earning of a lot of people is low, i guess it is different world how to approach to the access. You could ahave a beatiful repository, buyt they dont know how to manage media, pdf, formats, etc... Anybody in my Uni use microsoft word as office suit... but nobody buy it. And you ask them about libreoffice, or openoffice, that could be the same. This is also related to inlcusiveness, and the opportutiny, in teachers who are learning how to comunicate, to carry it to them schools... to become more efficient with money.
Media, Open, etc are words that need discussion how to define them. Foster have amazing graphs and images related to open.. i will present them in opencon santiago. I guess the first impression will be “wow, amazing how many stuff it envolv”, the second one will be “wow, this stuff is super complicable to understand”.
I guess it is imposble to manage a common languaje, thats because we need to define contents and meanings, maybe one word become 10 stuff, and it is neccesary to do that.
Emotions are also envolved. Maybe with just one buttom, added to your webpage, related to google translation, top manage your document, could change a lot the ecosystem where we live and how to make information more accesible.
Related to OpenCon meeting, i told you, there were moments where i felt super confortable, and others that not. Related to work, Do-a-thon was amazing, because, i had few ideas going around in my brain, that if i become involved to do them, could cost me 6 months... with the help of cool people like Asura and Chris, happened in 1 hour?.
Related to emotional side, i guess the support is different. The last year opoenconsantiago arrive like 35 people?, now i expect something different.... but think about campinas opencon, 300 peoples!, but they have no voice here. Which is weird for me. There are doing this any funding kind of support, just webpage, sched and the amainzing Lorraine, but nothing else, just the “love” of them. If you dont care about this “love”, this will die, the passion will dissapear.
I remark, it is not about money, it is about to care the emotions or the other trying to involve their hands in the problem, and give them support is such that important.
Other topic is to create an space for more discussion and questioning paradigms.
Sam: (this is done)
Sam Hindle is a professional researcher at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF). She is also an ambassador for ASAPbio - a scientist driven initiative to promote the use of preprints in biology. She came to OpenCon because she is very passionate about science communication and improving how science is communicated, both to our peers and also to the public in general. She's passionate about this because she is involved in various science communication projects at UCSF, including iBiology - an online science seminar series which is completely open for anyone to look at. Sam is also in a science podcast that came out of UCSF called Carry, the reason she attended the unconference session to help others get involved in science communication. She believes the biggest challenge is managing to reach the public. "We try really hard when we're communicating the science that's happening in the lab at UCSF and surrounding universities; we try really hard to talk about the science in the ways that the public can understand." Sam thinks the biggest challenge is how to reach out to the public and bridge the gap between the bench and the public.