# R Contribution Working Group Meeting 2025-10-21

## 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**:Gabe Becker, Mikael Jagan

## Agenda

- Welcome + start meeting recording.
- Toronto R User Group? Try asking on R User Group Organizers Slack.

### Main items

- R Dev Days 2025 (https://contributor.r-project.org/events/r-dev-days/)
- Kurt Hornik has been nominated "R Dev Day Ambassador" to help prepare tasks for R Dev Days
- R Dev Day @ RSECon25 report back
- Sebastian Meyer and Martyn Plummer came from R Core
- Gabe Becker, Heather Turner and Ella Kaye facilitating
- 30 people
- R Dev Day @ Shiny in Production report back
- 15 people
- Heather Turner and Ella Kaye facilitating
- Some returnees
- Working on translation, semi-automating making PRs to CRAN packages, good practices on R-devel repo, updating links in the R manuals
- Upcoming R Dev Days
- Melbourne, Australia + Remote (Australia), Nov 21: https://pretix.eu/r-contributors/r-dev-day-oz-25/
- 40 in-person + 40 remote
- local hubs in Brisbane, Canberra, Perth
- Auckland, New Zealand + Remote (Americas/Asia-Pacific), Dec 16+17: https://pretix.eu/r-contributors/r-dev-day-nz-25/
- 2 streams
- R Dev Day @ Rencontres R, Nantes, France, Fri 19 June (https://pretix.eu/r-contributors/r-dev-day-rr2026/ - not yet open)
- Tentative dates for 2026:
- R Dev Day @ CascadiaR, Portland, USA, Thu 18 or Fri 19 June, TBC ([e-mail])
- Check with R Consortium what conferences are in the pipeline for 2026
- Check what events US-based R Core people are planning to go to.
- R Dev Day @ useR! 2026, Warsaw, Poland, 10 July, TBC
- R Project Sprint 2026, Birmingham, UK, Wed 2 - Fri 4 September (R Core meeting Tue 1 September), Birmingham, TBC
- The dates for the sprint are the week before the Royal Statistical Society Conference (9-11 Sep, Bournemouth https://rss.org.uk/training-events/events/events-2026/rss-2026-international-conference/) and the co-located International Research Software Conference + RSECon26 (7-8 + 9-11 Sep, Sheffield https://www.researchsoft.org/irsc/).

- Good practices for R-devel repos (https://github.com/r-devel/repo-best-practices)
- GitHub rulesets (https://github.com/r-devel/repo-best-practices/tree/main/rulesets)
- CODEOWNERS

- Birdaro training for open source leaders (https://www.birdaro.org/2025/07/01/the-birdaro-training-program/)
- Mini workshops and coursework (October)
- Giving and Receiving Feedback [reflection](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DYv-qhe_KS5pebjyuVANHMewoQ5tU-0s1xal9oZmHZY/edit?usp=sharing)
- Making Collective Decisions [reflection](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DjaJ5Wj7ToP1FEPXf0b7BcyudGq6S2vlEzYhpmFb--Y/edit?usp=sharing)
- Community Governance Stuctures [reflection](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Cm1HF_ketG4t-aWAoS_DhG7YrTOo00WXAzOetGb77f4/edit?usp=sharing.)
- Lightning talks ([slides on Zenodo](https://zenodo.org/communities/birdaro/records?q=&l=list&p=1&s=10&sort=newest)) (October). Including:
- Running Office Hours to Support Novice Contributors (R Project) <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17369881>
- Mentorship models in open source (Saint Louis University Open Source Program Office) <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17399207>
- scikit-learn Contributor Experience Team <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17371036>
- Community Playbook module

- AOB

### Next meetings

- Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 19:30-20:30 UTC ([find your local time](https://arewemeetingyet.com/UTC/2025-11-18/19:30/R%20Contribution%20Working%20Group)).
- Same as October vs 3rd Friday at 15:00 UTC
- Thursday, December 18, 2025, 19:30-20:30 UTC ([find your local time](https://arewemeetingyet.com/UTC/2025-12-18/19:30/R%20Contribution%20Working%20Group)).
- 3rd Tuesday clashes with Dev Day at Auckland, but is this too close to holidays?