What is rOpenSci?

• Presented in David’s talk… can I quizz you?

• An organization supporting open science and reproducibility

• Packages and a community

Onboarding?

• Internally developed packages (Scott Chamberlain, Jeroen Ooms).

• Packages submitted by the community.

https://ropensci.org/packages/

Onboarding process: ensuring best practices in the collection of packages.

Onboarding?

What packages?

• data retrieval

• data extraction

• database access

• data munging

• data deposition

• reproducibility

What packages?

• geospatial data

• text analysis

And in case of any doubt… pre-submission enquiries!

Who?

Four editors

• Scott Chamberlain (@sckottie)

• Karthik Ram (@_inundata)

• Noam Ross (@noamross)

• Maëlle Salmon (@ma_salmon)

And many awesome reviewers!

Submission story: ropenaq

• Step 1: reading old issues until I felt ready and not afraid

You don’t need that step, coolest process ever!

Submission story: ropenaq

• Step 2: submitting the package!

Submission story: ropenaq

• Step 3: getting the reviews and making the changes

Submission story: ropenaq

• Step 4: thanking the reviewers and transferring the repo

Submission story: ropenaq

• Step 5: writing a blog post

Submission story: ropenaq

• The package got better

• My coding skills got better

• I met nice people

What’s not to love about that process?

Why is this interesting for you?

• Submitting a package?

• Becoming a reviewer?

Where to get more information

• The Github onboarding repo github.com/ropensci/onboarding

• Ask me anything!