R/Pharma Diversity Alliance: Open-source Hackathon

Diversity Alliance Chairs

Hackathon Agenda

Today: Main group activities [1 hour]

Diversity Alliance: goals and vision for our community
Mentor intros
Open-source intro: working in git
Open-source intro: working with humans (expected behaviours)

Today: Mentor Group Activities [3 hours]

We have paired our mentors to form groups
Each group is aligned to a topic with an associated set of open-source issues
Mentors will be on hand to guide you in terms of tools and the issues

Optional re-group [Fri Oct 25th @ 2pm BST / 9am EST]

Please join us to re-group with your team and to discuss any remaining pull requests.
Join using: addevent calendar

Diversity Alliance

We aspire to be an inclusive R community for developers who work in the pharma space. The Alliance is chaired by Christina Fillmore, Harvey Lieberman and Orla Doyle.

If you want to know more check out our origin story.

Goals and Aspirations

Our goal is to provide a welcoming, equitable and supportive space for people to upskill, share knowledge and build a community of diverse voices. We want all ways of being and doing to feel welcome.
We hope to have a positive impact through:
1. Opportunities for upskilling
2. Opportunities for networking / community building
3. Promote speaking / panel opportunities to a diverse network

We launched in March 2024. We run monthly meetings to begin to grow our community.

If you have ideas for future meetings then please reach out to us at the diversity alliance email address.

How to join this community

Please call us, we (mostly) can’t call you!

Sign up using our diversity alliance email address
Subscribe to our addevent calendar
Once you sign up we’ll add you to our slack channel

Let’s shape this community together

Join our monthly meetups:
- Help co-define the agenda and topics for future meetups
- Make new connections
- Learn new skills
Co-host a workshop:
- Share a topic with the community.
Are you organising sessions and you want to connect to a diverse group of people:
- The Diversity Alliance chairs can advertise these opportunities to help find nominations / volunteers from a more diverse pool.