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Authors Steffi LaZerte, Yanina Bellini Saibene, Yi-Chin Sunny Tseng, Pascal Burkhard, Yaoxiang Li, Hugo Gruson

This week we had a wonderful community call, From Novice to Contributor: Making and Supporting First-Time Contributions to FOSS, where Sunny Tseng, Pascal Burkhard, and Yaoxiang Li shared with us their experiences with, and advice for, first time contributors, with the excellent moderation of Hugo Gruson.This was a perfect start to our special series of activities to support first time contributors to Open Source Software.

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Author The rOpenSci Team

In 2024, we remained committed to open science and open source software.We continued to build a welcoming andinclusive community, through innovation and collaboration. Here are the highlights of the year:R-Universe R-Universe, rOpenSci’s platform for finding and publishing R packages,saw major advancements in 2024,making it an increasingly useful and trusted resource for the wider R community.

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Authors Steffi LaZerte, Yanina Bellini Saibene, Yi-Chin Sunny Tseng, Pascal Burkhard, Yaoxiang Li, Hugo Gruson

This week we had a wonderful community call, From Novice to Contributor: Making and Supporting First-Time Contributions to FOSS, where Sunny Tseng, Pascal Burkhard, and Yaoxiang Li shared with us their experiences with, and advice for, first time contributors, with the excellent moderation of Hugo Gruson.This was a perfect start to our special series of activities to support first time contributors to Open Source Software.

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Authors Yanina Bellini Saibene, Mark Padgham, Natalia Morandeira

Maintaining Community Trust and Safety The rOpenSci community is supported by our Code of Conductwith a clear description of unacceptable behaviors,instructions on how to make a report,and information on how reports are handled.We, the Code of Conduct Committee,are responsible for receiving, investigating, deciding,enforcing and reporting on all reports of potential violations of our Code.We are committed to transparency with our community

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Since 2022, rOpenSci has been developing tools and processes to localize and translate our content.As a result of this effort, we created a set of guidelines to assist our community in translating and localizing our resources.What started as an internal challenge has evolved into a collaborative blueprint that we believe can help transform how scientific resources are shared in a multilingual research landscape.

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Author The rOpenSci Team

Dear rOpenSci friends, it’s time for our monthly news roundup! You can read this post on our blog.Now let’s dive into the activity at and around rOpenSci!rOpenSci HQ Looking for Maintainers to Support First-Time Contributors Now open to non-rOpenSci package maintainers! Making your first contribution to Open Source can be both empowering and intimidating.

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Thanksgiving is celebrated in many parts of the world.The USA, rOpenSci’s official location, celebrates Thanksgiving this Thursday, 28th November.Giving thanks to contributors is also an important part of open-source software development.Many open-source software projects use the allcontributors.org system to acknowledge contributions, which includes One strong motivation for allcontributors.org is to “Recognize all contributors, including those