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Slackathon 2018-09-28

Attendance

Core team

Present: Di Cook (DC), Isabella Gollini (IG), Kevin O'Brien (KO), Heather Turner (HT)
Absent: Tania Allard (TA), Jenny Bryan (JB), Emily Dodwell (ED), Jasmine Dumas (JD), Jonathan Godfrey (JG), Julie Josse (JJ), Tanja Kecojevic (TK), Michael Lawrence (ML), Augustina Ragwitz (AR), David Smith (DS)

Sub-teams

Present:
Absent: Stella Bollmann (SB), Carolin Strobl (CS), Rudolf Debelak (RD), Andrea Foulkes (AF), John Fox (JF), Gina Griffin (GG), Madlene Hamilton (MH), Liz Kellogg (LK), Joslynn Lee (JL), David Meza (DM), Gina Merchant (GM), Ileena Mitra (IM), Wenfeng Qin (WQ), Joyce Robbins (JR), Maëlle Salmon (MS), Tracy Shen (TS), Noa Tamir (NT), Charlotte Wickham (CW), Hadley Wickham (HW), Yizhe Xu (YX)

Minutes

Core team/General

  • HW had 300 Forwards hex stickers printed for us! ED and JR will distribute some at next teaching workshop for girls.

ACTIONS

  • Do keep us up-to-date on conferences, etc., that you plan to attend so hopefully we can distribute in person (ALL)
  • See item under On-ramps team Actions (below)

Community team

  • (See thread in #community channel on Slack.)

Conferences team

(No items at this time.)

On-ramps team

  • (HT) Hacktoberfest ideas:
    1. Publish the (first?) blog post on collaborative coding (c.f forwards/tasks#26).
    2. Liaise with rOpenSci to get them to promote good-first-issue as a tag, as promoted by GitHub, vs beginner as used last year. MS opened an issue to update their dev guide.
    3. See if we can label any of our own issues as Hacktoberfest issues and promote on Twitter.
    4. Re-tweet/discuss on Facebook about Hacktoberfest opportunities related to R, e.g. rOpenSci post, R-Ladies Hacktoberfest hackathons. Call from rOpensci to label issues has been re-tweeted; keep eye out for more.

ACTIONS

  • Work on blog post (CW, AR)
  • Review issues to see if we can promote as Hacktoberfest issues (HT,and Core Team)

Social media team

(No items at this time.)

ACTIONS

  • Promote R-related Hacktoberfest activities.

Surveys

(No items at this time.)

ACTIONS

  • Analyze the useR! 2018 survey data.

Teaching

  • IG will be giving a short version of the package workshop at the Datafest in Tbilisi (and maybe also in Dublin with R-Ladies).
    • (HT) Feel free to use my satRdays slides for the content, which was basically a selection from the full day course and is about 2 hours of material. I would probably skip/simplify the bit about how packages get into memory, it's a bit too much detail at that stage. They are in ppt, so you could try using the slidex package to convert to xaringan as mentioned in this Github issue.
  • IG has material for a beginner R workshop she gave at the Diversity in Data Workshop here in Dublin. Can be shared on GitHub with addition of CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
  • HT has a half-day R programming workshop where I have made an effort to include "stepping stones" to package development, e.g. documenting and testing functions. She'll see how it goes, but can probably share that afterwards, so we have a sequence from R starter to R developer workshops.
  • Priority for distribution of Forwards hex stickers is priority is workshop participants, diversity scholars and members of Forwards.

ACTIONS

  • Convert workshop slides into xarigan; use Earo's slides as a starting point (IG, NT)
  • Get Forwards hex stickers to Nor'eastR conference to a) to hand out there, b) to pass some (the rest?) on to DS who would be a good distributor as he goes to many R conferences!
  • Get Forwards hex stickers to DC somehow for girls workshop in Brisbane in November (ED mail them?)

AOB