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From Surviving to Thriving: A Convening to Reclaim and Sustain Open Science Communities

Five leading open science organizations — The Carpentries, OLS, rOpenSci, pyOpenSci, and PREreview — are coming together for a strategic convening, supported by The Navigation Fund, to address shared challenges of underfunding, fragmentation, and unsustainable volunteer models.

Help Us Design a New Git(Hub) Organizational Dashboard

We have developed a prototype dashboard which aims to help organizations maintain complex systems of inter-dependent software components. Our initial prototype organizational dashboard provides insights into code contributors, their repositories, and maintenance status and needs. The prototype dashboard shows data for the three related GitHub organizations, reconhub, epiverse, and epiverse-trace, all of which develop and host open-source software for understanding and analysing epidemics. We aim to develop the current prototype as a template for adoption and adaptation by other open-source organizations....

rOpenSci Champions Second Cohort: Projects Wrap-Up

Our second cohort of Champions completed the program. In this blog post, we share each champion’s projects, their achievements and outreach activities.

rOpenSci News Digest, August 2025

R-multiverse comm call, useR! 2025, posit::conf(2025), coworking, new package, package news

Exploring Open Science, R Packages, and Research Software Development at the CSIDNet AGM 2025

An interactive session at the Climate Sensitive Infectious Disease Network AGM 2025 exploring open science, R packages, and research software development.

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