Organizing Community Calls using GitHub
Yani Bellini Saibene, rOpenSci Community Manager
rOpenSci
We foster a culture that values open and reproducible research using shared data and reproducible software for everyone built by everyone. And we do it by creating technical and social infrastructure.
- Creating a suite of carefully vetted, federated R software tools.
- Making the right data, tools and best practices more discoverable.
- Nurturing a welcoming and diverse community.
- Building capacity of software users and developers and fostering a sense of pride in their work.
- Promoting advocacy for a culture of data sharing and reusable software.
Community Calls
Quarterly one hour online events with 2-5 speakers, 1 moderator and Q&A time.
The main goal of strengthening our community.
informing people on technical and social topics,
bringing different stakeholders’ perspectives to light,
identifying unmet needs on a topic,
reinforcing our mission and values.
R users and developers (22-91 attendes from 11-15 countries). Academia, government, industry, and non-profit.
rOpenSci member’s point of view
How do I find out about what happened?
How do I find out what’s going to happen?
How do I contribute to what is going to happen?
Community Manager point of view
Crowdsourcing ideas (public repo)
Manage the process (private repo)
… through issues and issues templates (check list)
Why GitHub?
Meet your members where they are
- Diferent levels of notifications (email, slack integration).
- Transparent and open (public repo).
- No need for onboarding or …
- … good first contribution using the platform (important if you want to develop/review software)
- Screen reader friendly
¡Gracias, Thank you!
- Slides: https://commcallgh.netlify.app
- Slide source code on GitHub: https://github.com/yabellini/commcallgithub
- The pictures are adaptation by my 7yo son and me to images by Freepik on hand drawn style stickman set
- I use R, excalidraw and quarto for build this talk.
