Present: Heather Turner Kevin O'Brien, Yanina Bellini Saibene, gwynn
Present: Liz Hare Absent:
ACTIONS
- grant to automate alt-text in ggplot submitted to RConsortium and waiting for response
ACTIONS Await response
Present: Ella Kaye (organising/co-hosting an open Zoom call on the revival of RainbowR)
- about 22 people showed up, much interest and enthusiasm of the relaunch
- many ideas on growth & development
Kevin O'Brien is coordinating with various RUGs in Africa to assist with a series of online meetups throughout 2022. WIthin recent weeks, there was
- A meetup co-organized by Botswana R, Eswatini R and Bulawayo R
- The launch of Namibia R (where Heather Turner gave a presentation)
- A meetup with Osun R user group
- A meetup with the Accra R user group Ghana. Assistance comprises provision of a Zoom Webinar Room, Event Promotion, and - on an ongoing basis - speaker recruitment. The aspiration is to have more speakers from the various countries give talks.
KOB is also assisting London R revive the live-meetup series. The next London R meetup takes place in Elephant & Castle, South London in late June. (as an aside - KOB is a former, and still occasional, resident of Southwark)
KOB is assisting Python colleagues in running EuroPython in Dublin. There is a Trans*Code hackathon event taking place at it. Naomi Ceder (formerly the chair of the Python Software Foundation) and Anna-Jayne Metcalf (organizer of the Trans Day Of Remembrance - TDOR) are due to attend.
R Consortium Working Group on Inclusivity Diversity Equity and Accessibility, chaired by Samantha Toet with the assistance of Joe Rickert, are looking to set up a series of Online SatRdays on an ongoing basis. The first nominated one is a Francophone SatRdays , mostly featuring Speakers from West Africa - with other regions being pencilled in for future events (e.g. Southern Africa). It will probably take 4 or 5 iterations to properly get some momentum going, but this will break in inertia a bit.
WhatsApp group for AfricaR email list sent to everyone on MailMerge file
ACTIONS
ACTIONS LH: Working on testing screen reader accessibility of the UseR!2022 website/platform/hub. Not much of it is configured yet. I'm encouraged because a lotof the configuration stuff is surprisingly accessible. We'll need to know if the attendee-facing part is accessible, including third party applications like chat and video. I can forward detailed notes for anyone who wants. Also, we are close to releasing the call for participants for the MiR/CSS #TidyTuesday accessible data visualization event.
Yani:
Some more notes about useR! 2022:
- thank Liz for her patience and work on the accessibility aspect. The biggest problem is that the team in charge of the platform takes a long time to answer because they are going from one conference to another.
- There will be a strong outreach campaign to get more registrations. At this moment we have 400 registered people. We will ask you to help us to spread the word to their contacts.
- Some tutorials have already been sold aout. I will make more diffusion of the tutorials in Spanish that still have places available.
- The results of the diversity scholarships have been sent out. We were able to award all that were requested.
- The program is now complete, including poster and elevator pitches.
- As always we meet every Thursday.
- We are still working with CZI for money to hire subtitles and translations.
- We are talking with more potential sponsors.
LatinR 2022:
- goes virtual again. This time there is also a call for tutorials as well as papers and thematic tables as usual. Trilingual like always.
- Dissemination is appreciated.
- We will pay 100 dollars to those who give tutorials.
- We are putting together the team for this year, we want to:
- Change the web to another format.
- Create the CoC team.
- We have a draft about LatinR going virtual to send to the R Journal as a conference report. I hope we can send this soon.
SSI Software Camp: Paola Corrales and I did a from spreadsheet to R in Spanish! Was the only option in other language than English and was very well received. Pleople ask for more.
- Planning Bug BBQ to fall after useR! 2022
- Event will be open to all, not just attendees of useR!. It will be free.
- Tools will be YouTube Video, Zoom breakout rooms and R-Devel Slack. All of these are optional - people could just read the instructions on the web page and work independently.
- GitHub will be used to record activity, so people will need a GitHub account or will need to team up with some else that can record activity on GitHub.
- There will be 3 sessions of 4 hours each, people can watch a video to get started: either a long tutorial video, or a short welcome video. Maybe the welcome talk will be live insome sessions, depending on personnel.
ACTIONS
- Create GitHub repo to use during the event
- Create instructions document so people know what to do during the event
- Create event page to help advertise the event
- Update on Latin American Survey (led by Pao Corrales and Claudia Huaylla)
- Team has been meeting every few weeks or so (including others from outside Forwards)
- Working on blog post(s) for Forwards blog. Hope to have something ready in a few weeks' time
- Future goals
- Clean and anonymise data to add to
forwardsR package - Modify survey to reach more people, in particular people that don't (yet!) use R.
- Clean and anonymise data to add to
- useR! survey
- Need to prepare 2022 survey
- Will we run satisfaction survey again? Or will organizing team do that?
- Need to liaise with organizers: How to publicize survey? When? Does anyone on the organizing team want to help?
- Need to review questions, e.g. missing employment question, check whether questions related to LGBT status should be updated
- Review report from 2021
ACTIONS
- Andrea will check with Yani about liaising with useR! 2022 organizers
- Pao and Claudia will update when there is news on the Latin America survey
ACTIONS
- Next Core Team meeting will be 2022-06-13.