From 23e873c870d5f1706c65fbcbe6c623ba624ce978 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Heather Turner Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2023 15:27:00 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] update news --- blog/2023/index.qmd | 40 +++++++++++++ edu/workshops/index.qmd | 6 +- index.qmd | 33 +++++++---- oldnews.qmd | 124 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 190 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) create mode 100644 blog/2023/index.qmd create mode 100644 oldnews.qmd diff --git a/blog/2023/index.qmd b/blog/2023/index.qmd new file mode 100644 index 00000000..73b28d0d --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/2023/index.qmd @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +--- +title: Website Relaunch +author: + - name: Heather Turner + - name: Ella Kaye + - name: Zane Dax +date: "2023-12-07" +categories: [news] +description: 'Announcement about the relaunch of the Forwards website.' +draft: true +--- + +It's been long time since we updated the Forwards website. At some point our +continuous integration workflow stopped working and we didn't have time to fix +it. Moreover, we wanted to take the opportunity to update to newer tools and +processes, to make the website easy maintain. This was a bigger task, but +we're happy to say that we've now updated from blogdown plus a convoluted +Travis CI workflow, to Quarto plus a GitHub actions workflow. + +We have simplified the organization of posts, so that they are group by year +rather than the full date of publication, which caused editing headaches when +collaborating on a blog post over several days or weeks. This has changed the +URL of blog posts, but rest assured we have added aliases so old links +should still work. + +Despite the lack of blog posts, the Forwards taskforce has remained active! +We've updated the news section on our homepage, which captures some of the +main activities in the past few years. For a fuller account of the missing +years you can check out the news column of the R Journal + +- [2020 vol 2](https://journal.r-project.org/news/RJ-2020-2-forwards-news/) +- [2021 vol 1](https://journal.r-project.org/news/RJ-2021-1-forwardsnews/) +- [2021 vol 2](https://journal.r-project.org/news/RJ-2021-2-forwards-news/) +- [2022 vol 2](https://journal.r-project.org/news/RJ-2022-2-forwards/) +- [2022 vol 4](https://journal.r-project.org/news/RJ-2022-4-forwards/) + +We plan to round up news from 2023 in volume 4 of the R Journal. + +Beyond that we hope to post here more regular in the coming months! + diff --git a/edu/workshops/index.qmd b/edu/workshops/index.qmd index e62279a8..55540313 100644 --- a/edu/workshops/index.qmd +++ b/edu/workshops/index.qmd @@ -10,15 +10,17 @@ Thanks to generous funding from the [R Consortium](https://www.r-consortium.org/ - *Workshops for high school girls* serve as an introduction to coding in R and are designed for students interested in STEM, coding, and data analysis. Participants learn about plotting data, web scraping, and the development of Shiny apps. A selection of topics related to contemporary current affairs are used, and where possible, incorporate data specific to the workshop’s geographic location. + + +### Past Workshops - [**Package development workshop for women & other underrepresented groups**](../york) at the University York *2020-01-07, York, UK* Free to attend, travel scholarships available for travel within the UK. [More details](../york). Instructors: Emma Rand, Susannah Cowtan -### Past Workshops - - [**Forwards and ACEMS R Coding Workshop for Year 11 Girls**](../brisbane/) at River City Labs *2019-03-30, Brisbane, Australia* Free to attend, [More details](http://bit.ly/Brissy_girls_coding) diff --git a/index.qmd b/index.qmd index 4c6c5532..40a1dd86 100644 --- a/index.qmd +++ b/index.qmd @@ -19,26 +19,37 @@ Find out more [about]() the task force. *For more details on past workshops, see the [Edu](edu) section.* -*2019/05/25* [First ever R conference in East Africa: SatRdays Kampala 2019](https://kampala2019.satrdays.org/) **Lend your support to this pathbreaking conference by contributing to SatRdays Kampala's [Indiegogo campaign](https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/satrdays-kampala-2019-fundraiser#/)** +*2023-11-18, Montevideo, Uruguay* - Yanina Bellini Saibene co-chairs [LatinR2022](https://latin-r.com/), which includes a keynote by Di Cook, a lightning talk by Pao Corrales on contributing translations to R and a +contribution space for working on translations. -![](images/AfricaR.png){fig-alt="AfricaR logo"} +*2023-11-16* - RainbowR launch a [pilot buddy scheme](https://rainbowr.netlify.app/posts/2023-11-16_introducing-buddies/) to foster stronger connections between community members. -*2019-04-06, Dublin* Isabella Gollini, with Bruna Wundervald, Chiara Cotroneo, and Jo Niec, teach "Develop Packages in R" +*2023-11-16* - Heather Turner gives a keynote on +[Contributing to R](https://hturner.github.io/IIConferenceOfR/) at the +II Conference of R (Spanish R Users conference) in Barcelona. -*2019-03-30, Brisbane* Di Cook and a team of brilliant women teach "R Coding Workshop for Year 11 Girls" - -*2019-02-23, Chicago* Stephanie Kirmer and Angela Li teach "Women's Package Development Workshop", jointed hosted with [R-Ladies Chicago](https://rladieschicago.org) +*2023-11-09* - Di Cook, Heather Turner and Jonathan Godfrey obtain grant from R +Consortium to support adding alt text to R Journal articles. -*2018-10-27, New York City* Emily Dodwell and Joyce Robbins lead "Data Science in R: Coding Workshop for 11th and 12th Grade Girls" +*2023-11-06* - Kevin O'Brien starts a monthly community call for organizers +of R User Groups, see the [Global R User Group](https://www.meetup.com/globalr/) meetup. -*2018-07-30, Vancouver* Di Cook serves as panelist on late breaking session at JSM2018, [*Addressing Sexual Misconduct in the Statistics Community*](http://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2018/onlineprogram/AbstractDetails.cfm?abstractid=329833) Organizer [blog post](http://statisticalrecipes.blogspot.com/2018/06/addressing-sexual-misconduct-in.html) +*2023-08-29* - Several Forwards members participate in [R Project Sprint 2023](https://contributor.r-project.org/r-project-sprint-2023/), an event to +encourage broader participation in contributing to base R. -*2018-06-23, Cardiff, Wales* Heather Turner teaches "Upgrade Your Workflow with a Custom Package" at [Cardiff satRday](https://cardiff2018.satrdays.org/) +*2023-05-29* - Di Cook co-mentors Abhishek Ulayil on second Google Summer of Code project on [Converting past R Journal articles to HTML](https://github.com/rstats-gsoc/gsoc2023/wiki/Converting-R-Journal-latex-documents-to-Rmarkdown-with-texor). -*2018-05-24, Melbourne* [Earo Wang](https://earo.me) leads "Package Development Workshop for Women: Everything you need to know to create your own R package" at [R Ladies Melbourne](https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/R-Ladies-Melbourne/events/250196006/) [slides]( http://slides.earo.me/rladies-pkg/#1), [code](https://github.com/earowang/rladies-pkg) +*2023-04-22* - Ella Kaye and Heather Turner give talk on [Sustainability and EDI in the R Project](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW6kRqktYQU) at satRdays London 2023. -*2018-05-14, Budapest* Package Development Workshop for Women at [eRum 2018](https://2018.erum.io/#talk-2-307) +*2022-10-12, Online* - Yanina Bellini Saibene co-chairs [LatinR2022](https://latin-r.com/), which includes [R translatón/Hackaton de tradução do R](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LURMdf1Uk8). +*2022-10-10* - Liz Hare talks to R-Ladies NYC about [Writing Meaningful Alt-Texts for Data Visualizations in R](https://lizharedogs.github.io/RLadiesNYAltText/#1). + +*2022-08-01* - Yanina Bellini Saibene gives a keynote at CarpentryCon 2022 on [Achieving the change we want one conference at a time](https://yabellini.netlify.app/talk/keynote_carpentrycon_2022/). + +*2022-08-08* - gwynn sturdevant and Jonathan Godfrey join panel at JSM 2022 on [Delivering Data Differently](https://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2022/onlineprogram/AbstractDetails.cfm?abstractid=319247). + +*2022-08-06* - Kevin O’Brien and Sam Toet help organize the first [Francophone satRday](https://satrdays.org/blog/2022/07/20/2022-francophone/). [older news items](oldnews) diff --git a/oldnews.qmd b/oldnews.qmd new file mode 100644 index 00000000..312b0c68 --- /dev/null +++ b/oldnews.qmd @@ -0,0 +1,124 @@ +--- +title: Archive +description: Old news items related to Forwards. +--- + + +*2022-07-21* - Several Forwards members contribute to [Ten simple rules to host an inclusive conference](https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010164) published in PLOS Computational Biology, 18(7): 1–13, 2022. + +*2022-06-20* - Yanina Bellini-Saibene supports [useR! 2022](https://user2022.r-project.org/) to adopt inclusive practices. + +*2022-06-13* - Google Summer of Code 2022 begins. Di Cook and Heather Turner mentor Abhishek Ulayil on [Converting past R Journal articles to HTML](https://github.com/rstats-gsoc/gsoc2022/wiki/Converting-past-R-Journal-articles-to-HTML); Michael Chirico co-mentors Meet Bhatnagar on creating a dashboard to [monitor the status of translations in R](https://github.com/rstats-gsoc/gsoc2022/wiki/Track-R-Translations-Status). + +*2022-05-18* - Ella Kaye and Zane Dax run meeting to [relaunch RainbowR](https://rainbowr.netlify.app/posts/2022-06-20_relaunching-rainbowr/). + +*2022-05-17* - Paola Corrales and Yanina Bellini Saibene gave a tutorial [From spreadsheets to R](https://yabellini.netlify.app/courses/deplanillasdecalculoar/) in Spanish, at the Software Sustainability Institute’s Research Software Camp. + +*2022-05-16* - Saranjeet Kaur Bhogal starts a technical writer on the Google Season of Docs project to [Expand and Reorganize the R Development Guide](https://github.com/rstats-gsod/gsod2022/wiki/GSOD-2022-Proposal). + +*2022-02-22* - Saranjeet Kaur Bhogal and Heather Turner start series of [Collaboration Campfires](https://contributor.r-project.org/events/collaboration-campfires/) to +to demystify the R development process. + +*2022-02-19* - Yanina Bellini-Saibene and Heather Turner join the Building inclusive communities panel at the launch of the AsiaR community. + +*2022-01-17, Online* - Heather Turner and Rita Giordano run package development workshop for [R-Ladies Remote](https://www.meetup.com/rladies-remote/events/283196926/) + +*2022-01-14, Online* - Kevin O'Brien speaks at [Accra R Users Ghana Conference](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSAQ8IVFBFc) + +*2022-01-12, New York* - Joyce Robbins leads package development workshop for +[R-Ladies NYC](https://www.rladiesnyc.org/post/package-development-2022/). + +*2021-11-29, Online* - Emma Rand and Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel run train-the-trainer +workshop on using modularized package development training materials. + +*2021-11-13, Online* - Heather Turner speaks at [R-Ladies Nairobi - 1st Anniversary](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjvP_Gzqs6E). + +*2021-11-10, Online* - Yanina Bellini Saibene co-chairs [LatinR2021](https://latin-r.com/) including keynote by Saranjeet Kaur on the +R Development Guide. + +*2021-10-04* - Saranjeet Kaur and Heather Turner are selected for the Digital Infrastructure Incubator program funded by Code for Science and Society to work on [Building community around the R Development Guide](https://www.codeforsociety.org/incubator/projects/building-community-around-the-r-development-guide). + +*2021-09-04, Online* - Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel speaks at [satRday Nairobi](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UvWcabFseI). + +*2021-08-01* - Forwards adopts [First Contributions](https://github.com/forwards/first-contributions/commits/master/README.md) GitHub repo and Zane Dax adds Spanish translation of documentation. + +*2021-07-05, Online* - Forwards support for [useR! 2021](http://user2021.r-project.org/) includes Liz Hare co-developing [accessibility guidelines](https://user2021.r-project.org/participation/accessibility/#accessibility-guidelines) and Jonathan Godfrey speaking in joint keynote on [Tools and technologies for supporting algorithm fairness and inclusion](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1vQjcSaEps&list=PL4IzsxWztPdmHoJwIVa4um44w2GMjctmP&index=1). + +*2021/06/03, Online* - Kevin O’Brien co-organizes [R-Ladies Remote Takeover](https://www.youtube.com/c/WhyRFoundationVideos/search) of the Why R? Webinars. + +*2021/05/17* - Noa Tamir starts as Senior Writer/Editor on [Google Season of Docs](https://github.com/rstats-gsod/gsod2021/wiki/GSOD-2021-Proposal) project +to develop documentation supporting *useR!* organization. + +*2021/02/22* - Saranjeet Kaur starts 1-week project funded by the R Foundation t to develop a first version of the [R Development Guide](https://contributor.r-project.org/rdevguide/). + +*2021/02/07, Online* - Kevin O’Brien starts [Why R? World Series](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKMUlj_pGn_mpO0B7eH9ao6SbPg0eLWLG) of video interviews. + +*2021/02/01, Online* - Emma Rand and Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel teach package +development workshop as series of three 1-hour modules. + +*2020/12/16, Lomé, Togo* - Forwards supports "Introduction to R" workshop, led by Anicet Ebou and Audrey Addablah. + +*2020/07/24, Online* - Forwards co-founds the [R Contribution Working Group](https://contributor.r-project.org/working-group), aiming +to encourage new contributors to base R. + +*2020/07/10, Online* - Richard Ngamita joins other community leaders in the +[Supporting diversity in the R community](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDO1OphmF5Q) panel at *useR! 2020*. + +*2020/04/02, Online* - Kevin O'Brien works with Why R? Foundation to start the +online [Why R? Webinars](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC1-B2RLGwk&list=PLKMUlj_pGn_nXxvVHPP7Mwzxv5zY98Gr-) giving broad access to R talks from a more diverse set of speakers. + +*2020/03/04, Johannesburg* - Heather Turner starts a series of talks and workshops +as part of [Southern Africa Project 2020](http://localhost:6149/blog/2020/southern-africa-project-2020/). + +*2020/02/29, Copenhagen* - Heather Turner spoke on "Moving Forwards: Greater Equity and Inclusion in the R Community" at [CelebRation 2020](https://biostatistics.dk/celebration2020/). + +*2020/01/07, York* - Emma Rand and Susannah Cowtan teach a [Package development workshop for women & other underrepresented groups](Package development workshop for women & other underrepresented groups). + +*2019/11/15, Cardiff* - Heather Turner organizes a hackathon as part of [satRday Cardiff 2019](https://cardiff2019.satrdays.org/) in partnership with Anna-Jayne Metcalfe, creato of [Transgender Day of Remebrance](https://tdor.translivesmatter.info/) website. + +*2019/09/08, Charlottesville* - Samantha Toet and Angela Li teach Package Development Workshop at a weekend [R-Ladies Charlottesville Meetup](blog/2019/rladies-charlottesville-workshop-recap/). + +*2019/07/09, Toulouse* - Forwards support [useR! 2019](http://user2019.r-project.org/) with accessibility, diversity scholarship scheme, conference buddies and code of conduct. + +*2019/05/25* - [First ever R conference in East Africa: SatRdays Kampala 2019](https://kampala2019.satrdays.org/) **Lend your support to this pathbreaking conference by contributing to SatRdays Kampala's [Indiegogo campaign](https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/satrdays-kampala-2019-fundraiser#/)** + +![](images/AfricaR.png){fig-alt="AfricaR logo"} + +*2019-04-06, Dublin* - Isabella Gollini, with Bruna Wundervald, Chiara Cotroneo, and Jo Niec, teach "Develop Packages in R" + +*2019-03-30, Brisbane* - Di Cook and a team of brilliant women teach "R Coding Workshop for Year 11 Girls" + +*2019-02-23, Chicago* - Stephanie Kirmer and Angela Li teach "Women's Package Development Workshop", hosted by [R-Ladies Chicago](https://rladieschicago.org) + +*2018-11-24, Belgrade* - Tatjana Kecojevic teaches [klik-R workshop](http://klikr.rbind.io/2018/09/24/klikr-outlook/) on "Data Science Story Telling with R" for young people aged 13-18 years. + +*2018-10-27, New York City* - Emily Dodwell and Joyce Robbins lead "Data Science in R: Coding Workshop for 11th and 12th Grade Girls" + +*2018-07-30, Vancouver* - Di Cook serves as panelist on late breaking session at JSM2018, [*Addressing Sexual Misconduct in the Statistics Community*](http://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2018/onlineprogram/AbstractDetails.cfm?abstractid=329833) Organizer [blog post](http://statisticalrecipes.blogspot.com/2018/06/addressing-sexual-misconduct-in.html) + +*2018-06-23, Cardiff, Wales* - Heather Turner teaches "Upgrade Your Workflow with a Custom Package" at [Cardiff satRday](https://cardiff2018.satrdays.org/) + +*2018-05-24, Melbourne* - [Earo Wang](https://earo.me) leads "Package Development Workshop for Women: Everything you need to know to create your own R package" at [R Ladies Melbourne](https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/R-Ladies-Melbourne/events/250196006/) [slides]( http://slides.earo.me/rladies-pkg/#1), [code](https://github.com/earowang/rladies-pkg) + +*2018-05-14, Budapest* - Package Development Workshop for Women at [eRum 2018](https://2018.erum.io/#talk-2-307) + +*2017-12-08* - Girls coding workshop held at Auckland University + +*2017-12-07* - Women's package writing workshop held at Auckland University, with instructors Hadley Wickham, Jenny Bryan, and Di Cook + +*2017-10-28* - [Girls R coding workshop](https://forwards.github.io/blog/2017/11/20/girls-coding-workshop-melbourne/) held at the Kathleen Symes library in Melbourne. + +*2017-07-12* - Julie Josse presents the results of the Forwards useR! 2016 survey at [useR! 2017](https://user2017.brussels/) [[Video](https://channel9.msdn.com/events/useR-international-R-User-conferences/useR-International-R-User-2017-Conference/Diversity-of-the-R-Community?term=useR!%20diversity)] [[Slides](http://schd.ws/hosted_files/user2017/7d/useR%212017.pdf)]. + +*2017-01-13* - Open call to join the taskforce, [further details](/blog/2017/01/13/call-to-join-forwards/). + +*2016-11-13* - Heather Turner's presentation from [eRum 2016](http://erum.ue.poznan.pl/), "Addressing the Gender Gap in the R Project", now on [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp6JY7cirww&list=PLCsJUtCRSFbejqCqAURNVOFFpoDCMeuO5) [[slides](http://rpubs.com/hturner/eRum2016)]. + +*2016-11-04* - Jenny Bryan, Di Cook and Julie Josse are elected as ordinary members of the R Foundation, bringing the total number of women to 5 out of 37. + +*2016-10-20* - Di Cook presents the work of the task force at [Women in Statistics and Data Science 2016](https://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/wsds/2016/onlineprogram/AbstractDetails.cfm?AbstractID=303353). + +*2016-08-22* - R Consortium approves funding for a [joint proposal](https://www.r-consortium.org/blog/2016/08/22/the-r-consortium-funds-three-projects-in-july) from the San Francisco and London R-ladies groups for alignment and global expansion. + +*2016-06-27* - Proportion of women at useR! 2016 rises to 28% from 19% at useR! 2015. +