We have developed a prototype dashboard which aims to help organizations maintain complex systems of inter-dependent software components.Our initial prototype organizational dashboard provides insights into code contributors, their repositories, and maintenance status and needs.The prototype dashboard shows data for the three related GitHub organizations, reconhub, epiverse, and epiverse-trace, all of which develop and host open-source software

As we welcome the third cohort of the rOpenSci Champions Program, our second cohort has now completed the second phase of the program.In this article, we share each Champion’s project, their achievements, and their outreach activities. 🔗Champions’ Projects In their applications Champions choose to develop a new package or to participate in the review process as authors or reviewers.

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 🔗Community call: “R-multiverse: a new way to publish R packages” On Monday, 29 September 2025 14:00 UTC, we’ll host a community call about the R-multiverse, starring Will Landau!

The “Climate Sensitive Infectious Disease” (CSID) Network looks to connect a global community of actors contributing towards impactful CSID software tools and establish localized CSID communities that can link existing on-the-ground issues and initiatives to the development and maintenance of CSID tools.

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 🔗Open Science with a Latin American Identity: Meet the New Cohort of the rOpenSci Champions Program We’re very excited to introduce the new rOpenSci Champions!

We’re very excited to introduce the new rOpenSci Champions! This cohort will participate in the program and carry out their work in Spanish, allowing us to continue strengthening the open science and research software development community in this language. We’re excited about the projects they’ll be developing, which tackle real-world challenges across diverse disciplines and regions of Latin America.

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 🔗Farewell to software review editor Julia Gustavsen This month we say farewell to Software Peer-Review Editor Julia Gustavsen.

We are excited to welcome Emi Tanaka and Nima Hejazi to our team of Associate Editors for rOpenSci Stats Software Peer Review.They join Laura DeCicco, Julia Gustavsen, Jouni Helske, Toby Hocking, Rebecca Killick, Anna Krystalli, Mauro Lepore, Noam Ross, Maëlle Salmon, Emily Riederer, Adam Sparks, Beatriz Milz, Margaret Siple and Jeff Hollister.Since 2015, rOpenSci has operated a thorough and collaborative software peer review system.Our

As we’ve said before, we believe that publishing multilingual resources can lower the barrier to access to knowledge, help democratize access to quality resources and increase the possibilities of contributing to software and open science projects.Our ongoing efforts at multilingual publishing are crucial work for rOpenSci’s mission.When discussing this project at conferences and elsewhere, we start an important conversation with people less

We are excited to introduce the new team of mentors for the rOpenSci Champions Program! This year, we have ten very talented individuals, all from Latin America, who bring a unique combination of experience, enthusiasm, and commitment to open science. Some of them have already been part of the program in previous editions, either as mentors or Champions, and today, they return to continue strengthening this community.

To be part of the rOpenSci Champions program has been an experience of professional growth and an opportunity to contribute to the rOpenSci community . I learned about R package development while working on a tool to facilitate access to census data from Argentina.