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I was first in, best dressed to write the R API wrapper for an open source server (ODK Central). Proceeded to go through open source peer review at rOpenSci and made it a robust R …

Australia here. When we're not on fire or under water (which is also where scooters perform rather badly), it often seems to be too hot to wear safety gear. Add the sense of entitl…

My grandfather, a teacher in peace times and Wehrmacht Lt in WWII, reportedly used steno to write notes on impossibly small pieces of paper. I guess the savings in paper suited his…

I've experienced this from the opposite side (positive feedback) and wanted to share that the tone and structure of the rOpenSci community seem to foster positive feedback and comm…

Thanks for sharing this. Right now I'm burnt out beyond words, having delivered a phase of a huge project, followed by upper management actions that make me feel extremely devalued…

A discovery by the ASKAP (I work across the road from their data centre, the Pawsey SC Centre), code on GH, data in CKAN. Nice.

I work in a state govt department. Very simple infrastructure additions have paid out majorly for us. It's my job to innovate around research infrastructure, so the following shoul…

Not mentioned are the fantastic user communities, especially the culture of inclusiveness and openness fostered by RStudio ([code of conduct]( https://github.com/tidyverse/dev-day-…

For context, this dude went on to create software that is used for electronic data capture all over the world, and build one of the most inclusive, diverse, and friendly communitie…

The ODK ecosystem (build, aggregate, collect) has been in use for our Western Australian flatback turtle conservation program since 2016, now being used by Dept Biodiversity, Conse…

Have you got info what you'll going to build? Can you prepare a starter project to hit the ground running? If you have to start from scratch, having built (and documented) a workin…