The NumFOCUS Diversity & Inclusion in Scientific Computing (“DISC”) Unconf took place as a hybrid event in São Paulo, Brazil, from March 14 to 16, 2025.Our community manager, Yanina Bellini Saibene, and rOpenSci Champions, Andrea Gomez Vargas and Liz Hare, participated.In this short post we report on our experience at and around the unconference.

rOpenSci’s activities and spaces are supported by a Code of Conductthat applies to all people participating in the rOpenSci community,including rOpenSci staff and leadership.It applies to all modes of interaction including GitHub project repositories,the rOpenSci discussion forum, Slack, Community Calls, Co-working and social sessions,and in person at rOpenSci-hosted events, including affiliated social gatherings.Our Code of Conduct is developed

Handling reported incidents related to a Code of Conduct (CoC) is a complex and delicate task. Managing reports timely and with care is crucial for maintaining a healthy and inclusive community. To assist with this process we’ve developed a template, based on the work of the useR! 2021 CoC Team, designed specifically for analyzing rOpenSci’s CoC incident reports.

We have great news: The call for applications to be part of the new cohort of our 2025 Program is now open! And for the first time it will be in Spanish! Our program seeks to identify, recognize and reward people who are leaders in an open science community, research software engineering and the R programming community. This year’s program is focused on people from Latin America and for the first time will be conducted entirely in Spanish.

Since the initial launch in 2021, our R-universe platform has steadily grown into a comprehensive infrastructure for publishing and discovering R material.As functionality keeps evolving and community adoption increases, we felt the need for a central documentation point.

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 and Open Source only with Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Including all of humanity is and always will be at the heart of open science.Read more about our mission in our blog post.

🔗Context setting rOpenSci organizes monthly co-working hours on a variety of topics.But the constant is the quality of the discussion that ensues and the renewed energy that comes from it. The November coworking session welcomed Stefanie Butland from Openscapes as a co-host.She shared Openscapes’ approach of “Forking as a worldview”.Forks in the open-source software world refer to copies of an existing open-source project that add their own

At rOpenSci, our mission is to and we achieve this through We feel it is a time to reiterate and clarify why this is and what it means. The open in open source and open science means more than how we share code or data.It means knocking down the barriers to participation so that it is open and accessible to all,that everyone can join in the benefits and joys of science, and removing our blinders to the humanity of those we previously missed.

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 🔗rOpenSci 2024 Highlights and what comes next in 2025 In this blog post, the rOpenSci Team shares the highlights of 2024 and what come next in 2025.

This week we had a wonderful community call, From Novice to Contributor: Making and Supporting First-Time Contributions to FOSS, where Sunny Tseng, Pascal Burkhard, and Yaoxiang Li shared with us their experiences with, and advice for, first time contributors, with the excellent moderation of Hugo Gruson.This was a perfect start to our special series of activities to support first time contributors to Open Source Software.

In 2024, we remained committed to open science and open source software.We continued to build a welcoming andinclusive community, through innovation and collaboration. Here are the highlights of the year: 🔗R-Universe R-Universe, rOpenSci’s platform for finding and publishing R packages,saw major advancements in 2024,making it an increasingly useful and trusted resource for the wider R community.