Diversity Alliance Events

Upcoming

Date Topic Goal
17 Jan 2025 The Role of a Package Maintainer Open discussion with package maintainers so those who are interested can get a peak in to the lives of large and small scale package maintainers
21 Feb 2025 Review the change log from the latest R release Astrid is going to take us through the new latest version of R
21 March 2025 Positron IDE Walk-through Orla is going to walk us through using the new IDE
18 April 2025 Plan for the Next Hackathon Hackathon planning with a bit of socializing
16 May 2025

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2024 Meetings

Date Topic Goal
22rd Mar 2024 Kick-off Let’s connect informally and discuss our aspriations for our diversity alliance and what you would like to see in upcoming events.
19th April 2024 IDE Tips and Ticks Bring your favourite IDE tricks and have some fun learning
24th May 2024 Open-source community How to start contributing to open-source packages.
26th July 2024 Diversity Alliance Conference Opportunities Let’s discuss some opportunities for this community to participate in upcoming conferences.
23rd Aug 2024 Logistics of the R/Pharma Hackathon Now we have agree to do this we need to sort some logistics
27th Sept 2024 Hackathon Mentor Meeting Work through the final bits of logistics for the hackathon
25th Oct 2024 Optional Hackathon Re-Group Pull in any final pull requests and re-group with your team
22nd Nov 2024 End of Year Review Reflect on the year and start to plan for next year