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Steffi LaZerte

rOpenSci Community Engineer

July 2, 2026
FOSS Tools for Lazy Editors
June 17, 2026
15 Years of rOpenSci! Celebrating the past, Reflecting on the Future
June 10, 2026
15 Years of rOpenSci! Celebrating the past, Reflecting on the Future
June 2, 2026
A New Guide: Organizing Events for First-time Contributors
December 17, 2025
Code Hosting Options Beyond GitHub
September 23, 2025
A Gentle Introduction to Open Science
April 1, 2025
Social Coworking and Office Hours - R you joking? Silly R packages for April Fools’ day
March 4, 2025
Coworking Mini-Hackathon for First-Time Contributors!
February 4, 2025
Coworking Mini-Hackathon for First-Time Contributors!
January 24, 2025
Coworking Mini-Hackathon for First-Time Contributors
October 22, 2024
Looking for Maintainers to Support First-Time Contributors
March 5, 2024
Social Coworking and Office Hours - Dates, Times and Timezones in R
September 19, 2023
Attract Contributors with ‘help wanted’ Issues
June 21, 2023
All About Coworking Sessions with rOpenSci
May 17, 2023
Scheduling Mastodon Posts in R with rtoot and GitHub Actions
May 2, 2023
Social Coworking and Office Hours - Spring Cleaning for R packages and Scripts
November 23, 2022
Meeting the stars of the R-universe: R Community, Exchange and Learn
November 16, 2022
rOpenSci’s Communication Channels: Twitter
October 17, 2022
Maintain or Co-Maintain an rOpenSci Package!
December 17, 2021
Thank You to the rOpenSci Community, 2021
November 16, 2021
How to Cite R and R Packages
August 17, 2021
rOpenSci Introduces Monthly Social Coworking and Office Hours
June 8, 2021
Celebrating World Ocean Day rOpenSci Style
April 28, 2021
Set Up Your Package to Foster a Community - Community Call Summary
April 22, 2021
Set Up Your Package to Foster a Community
March 9, 2021
rOpenSci Statistical Software Testing and Peer Review - Community Call Summary
January 20, 2021
Introducing the rOpenSci Community Contributing Guide
December 15, 2020
Thank You to the rOpenSci Community, 2020
July 14, 2020
Maintaining an R Package - Community Call Summary
March 4, 2020
Community Call - Maintaining an R Package
December 5, 2019
Last Night, Testing Saved my Life
March 6, 2018
Integrating data from weathercan

Editor

July 8, 2026
An API for Everything There Is to Know About Packages
June 19, 2026
Celebrating Our Maintainers during Maintainers Month
June 9, 2026
Eleven Latin American Voices for Open Science: The New Cohort of Champions rOpenSci 2026
June 1, 2026
Our goodpractice Package Has New Superpowers
May 6, 2026
New Mentoring Team with Experienced Mentors and New Voices
April 2, 2026
A Better R Programming Experience Thanks to Tree-sitter
February 26, 2026
Software Review in the Era of AI: What We Are Testing at rOpenSci
January 27, 2026
How to Recruit a New Maintainer for Your Package
January 12, 2026
Open call for the rOpenSci Champions Program 2026!
December 15, 2025
Better Code, Without Any Effort, Without Even AI
October 22, 2025
Go for Launch! Packages Shipped to the R-Multiverse
October 14, 2025
Recognition Beyond Blog Post Authors
October 10, 2025
A Primer on Domain Verification
June 5, 2025
New Mentoring Team, Same Open Science Spirit
May 15, 2025
Bridges and Communities. My Journey as an rOpenSci Champion
April 8, 2025
Supporting rOpenSci Mentors with Practical Tools
March 25, 2025
Software Review, Perspectives from an Academic
March 21, 2025
rOpenSci Code of Conduct Annual Review
March 20, 2025
Template To Handle Code of Conduct Incidents Reports
January 22, 2025
rOpenSci 2024 Highlights
December 17, 2024
Introducing the rOpenSci Localization and Translation Guidelines
November 26, 2024
Give Thanks with the allcontributors Package
October 10, 2024
Fostering Open Science in Latin America: CZI Awards Funds for Sustainable Research Software Development
August 6, 2024
Git Tricks for Working with Large Repositories
July 16, 2024
Metrics, Impact and Community Management
July 11, 2024
rOpenSci Community Collaboration Insight Using Social Networks Analysis
July 9, 2024
Multilingual Documentation in R Packages
June 6, 2024
From scripts to package. Developing dendroNetwork and learning with rOpenSci
April 18, 2024
Fostering Equity and Leadership: the rOpenSci Champions Program Selection Process
April 12, 2024
R-Universe Documentation Gets a Boost from Google Season of Docs
March 20, 2024
rOpenSci Champions Pilot Year: Projects Wrap-Up
March 18, 2024
An Example of the DRY/DAMP Principles for Package Tests
March 7, 2024
Marketing Ideas For Your Package
February 22, 2024
Beautiful Code, Because We’re Worth It!
February 15, 2024
Introducing rOpenSci Champions - Cohort 2023-2024
December 19, 2023
2023 rOpensci Champions Program: My Experience
November 29, 2023
Introducing rOpenSci Mentors - Cohort 2023-2024
September 15, 2023
Meeting the Stars of the R-Universe: The R-Universe Against Diseases.
August 4, 2023
rOpenSci Champions Pilot Year: Training Wrap-Up
July 20, 2023
Teaching targets with Penguins
July 14, 2023
Open Call for rOpenSci Champions Program Applications!
June 23, 2023
rOpenSci Champions Program Teams: Meet Ghozayel Elotteebi and Zebulun Arendsee
June 19, 2023
rOpenSci Champions Program Teams: Meet Alican Cagri Gokcek and Elio Campitelli
June 12, 2023
rOpenSci Champions Program Teams: Meet Cheryl Isabella Lim and Mauro Lepore
June 6, 2023
Meeting the Stars of the R-Universe: PEcAn, an Open Source Project to Take Care of the Planet
May 18, 2023
rOpenSci Champions Program Teams: Meet César and Marc
May 11, 2023
rOpenSci Champions Program Teams: Meet Victor Ordu and Laura DeCicco
May 9, 2023
rOpenSci Champions Program Teams: Meet Haydée Svab and Beatriz Milz
May 5, 2023
rOpenSci Champions Program Teams: Meet Carolina Pradier and Athanasia Monika Mowinckel
April 25, 2023
rOpenSci Champions Program Teams: Meet Bilikisu Wunmi Olatunji and Christina Maimone
April 18, 2023
rOpenSci Champions Program Teams: Meet Marcos Prunello and Lukas Wallrich
April 13, 2023
rOpenSci Champions Program Teams: Meet Pao Corrales and Adam Sparks
March 30, 2023
Meeting the Stars of the R-Universe: Researching Our Brain with the Magic of the R-Universe
February 28, 2023
Meeting the Stars of the R-universe: ThinkR’s Approach to Contributing to a Growing and Friendly R Community
February 21, 2023
rOpenSci Champions Program Kick off

Packages

promoutils
Utilities for Promoting rOpenSci
monarch
Manage rOpenSci Social Contacts
weathercan
Download Weather Data from Environment and Climate Change Canada