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rOpenSci News Digest, December 2024

18.12.2024

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 R-Universe Named an R Consortium Top-Level Project We are excited to announce that R-Universe has been named the R Consortium’s newest Top-Level Project! We’re glad to be i...

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Introducing the rOpenSci Localization and Translation Guidelines

16.12.2024

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 sc...

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R-Universe Named R Consortium Top-Level Project

02.12.2024

We are excited to announce that R-Universe has been named the R Consortium’s newest Top-Level Project! We’re glad to be in the company of community and infrastructure projects that have been designated critical to the R Ecosystem, such as R-hub, DBI, R-Ladies, and the R User Group program, and we are grateful for the support of the R Consortium...

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rOpenSci News Digest, November 2024

28.11.2024

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 an...

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Give Thanks with the allcontributors Package

25.11.2024

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 i...

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A comunidade R fala português

05.11.2024

How to join this free online event with Pedro Faria, Beatriz Milz and Francesca Belem Lopes Palmeira. A comunidade R está realizando vários esforços de traduções comunitárias para o português de diferentes recursos: livros, pacotes e guias. Nesta chamada da comunidade, três líderes da comunidade de língua portuguesa apresentarão suas exp...

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rOpenSci News Digest, October 2024

22.10.2024

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 Fostering open science in Latin America: CZI awards funds for sustainable research software development Exciting News! The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has awarded rOpenSci a new...

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Looking for Maintainers to Support First-Time Contributors

21.10.2024

Do you remember your first contribution to open source? Or are you still waiting to make it? Contributing to open source can be very rewarding, but also incredibly intimidating. When we asked about first time contributions on the rOpenSci Slack, people recalled the challenges and mistakes they made, but mostly how much they learned from and enjoyed...

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Fostering Open Science in Latin America: CZI Awards Funds for Sustainable Research Software Development

09.10.2024

Exciting News! The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has awarded rOpenSci a new grant to foster sustainable scientific software as a pillar of Open Science in Latin America by building capacity and community. With this $340K grant, we’re planning to launch a Spanish-language version of our Champions Program, along with other new initiatives to make sust...

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Deposits In The Wild

16.09.2024

For the better part of a year, I have been looking for an opportunity to use the rOpenSci package deposits in my role as the Data Librarian at EcoHealth Alliance. I had done some initial testing with Mark Padgham, the brilliant person who developed this package, but there weren’t any projects ready for me to put deposits through its paces. Enter ...

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