We are pleased to open the call for the second cohort of Champions and Mentors for the rOpenSci Champions Program 🎉 ! This program will continue to support our goal of identifying, recognizing, and rewarding passionate community members who help the community grow and improve.
rOpenSci is seeking mentors to support our inaugural cohort of rOpenSci Champions! The rOpenSci Champions Program is for people from historically and systematically excluded groups who are interested in contributing to rOpenSci and the broader ecosystem of open source and open science communities.
Why a Champions Program? Champion programs are designed to identify, recognize, and reward passionate community members. At rOpenSci, we recognize that there is a dismaying lack of diversity in the ecosystem of research software and open source communities. The R Community is no exception; its developers are overwhelmingly white, male, and from a handful of countries.
This blog post is intended to help you get started in rOpenSci community by highlighting some key links and activities. If you have questions, please get in touch with our Community Manager, Yanina Bellini Saibene by email or schedule a meeting. We are here for you as you begin your journey with our community. Welcome!Where do I get started? Glad you asked!
Do you have an account on the rOpenSci forum?As underlined in our contributing guide, our forum is where we encourage Q&A and exploration of ideas on a various range of topics .Compared to our Slack semi-open workspace, the forum is entirely open and much easier to search , so a great place to gather some collaborative knowledge!We have recently streamlined categories so that it might be
With the US government shut down, many of the federal government provided data APIs are down. We write R packages to interact with many of these APIs. We have been tweeting about what APIs that are down related to R pacakges we make, but we thought we would write up a proper blog post on the issue. NCBI services are still up! NCBI is within NIH, which is within the Department of Health and Human Services.
To help you use rOpenSci packages we put tutorials up on our site at /tutorials. Up to now, we created them with combination of raw html + converting code blocks to html and inserting them, etc. – it was a slow process to update them when changes happened in our packages. So we thought of a better plan… Recently CRAN started accepting R package vignettes (basically, tutorials built in to packages) in R Markdown format.
Just a quick note that the Task View we have been working on with others Web Technologies and Services is up on CRAN now. Find it here https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/WebTechnologies.html. This is the first version - there are definitely changes to come. Changes are being suggested as I write this on Twitter… The draft version of the task view is on Github here if you want to file an issue.
