R Contribution Working Group Meeting 2025-04-15

Present

R Core:
Bioconductor Core:
R Foundation: Heather Turner
MiR:
R-Ladies:
Forwards:
Latin R:
Africa R:
Asia R:
R User Groups:
General R community: Lluís Revilla, Gabe Becker, Gergely Daroczi

Agenda

• Welcome + start meeting recording.

Main items

• Plans for R Dev Days 2025 (https://contributor.r-project.org/events/r-dev-days/)

  Satellite to	Where	Date	Deadline
  Rencontres R 2025 (19-21 May)	Mons, Belgium	Thu 22 May	Fri 18 Apr
  useR! 2025 (8-10 Aug)	Durham, NC, USA	Mon 11 Aug	Tue 15 Apr
  RSECon25 (9-11 Sep)	Warwick, UK	Fri 12 Sep	Wed 23 Apr
  posit::conf (16-18 Sep)	Atlanta, GA, USA	Fri 19 Sep	TBA
  Shiny in Production (8-9 Oct)	Newcastle, UK	7-8 Oct	Wed 24 Sep

  • ~25 applications for useR! Dev Day
    • HT to share appliation data with committee for review

• GSoC 2025

  • Timeline and process: https://github.com/rstats-gsoc/gsoc2025/wiki
    • Proposal rankings due 29 Apr (mentors will need to review earlier!)
  • Projects related to R contribution/R core
    • R Dev Container: https://github.com/rstats-gsoc/gsoc2025/wiki/Refining-the-R-Dev-Container
    • R Chatbot: https://github.com/rstats-gsoc/gsoc2025/wiki/ChatR:-R-Expert-Chatbot

• R Consortium Infrastructure Projects

  • Two projects submitted related to R contribution/R core
    • R wiki: based on idea from GSoD 2024
    • Development/management of a common translations glossary: https://saranjeetkaur.github.io/isc_proposal_translations/
  • Expect to hear May 1

• Translations

  • Currently have git conflict that is blocking translations, is on Gergely's to do list to fix!
  • A Glossary terminology managers group has been set up in Weblate, currently Saranjeet Kaur, Heather Turner, Michael Chirico (he/him)
  • Missed translation update for Q1 2025
    • Yes, would welcome extra helpers! Make a call on Slack.

• AOB

Next meetings

• Tuesday, Apr 15, 2025, 18:30-19:30 UTC