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The Dynamic Relationship of Forks with their Upstream Repository

🔗 Context setting rOpenSci organizes monthly co-working hours on a variety of topics. But the constant is the quality of the discussion that ensues and the renewed energy that comes from it. The November coworking session welcomed Stefanie Butland from Openscapes as a co-host. She shared Openscapes’ approach of “Forking as a worldview”. Forks in the open-source software world refer to copies of an existing open-source project that add their own changes on top of the original codebase....

Open Science and Open Source only with Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility

Including all of humanity is and always will be at the heart of open science.

rOpenSci News Digest, January 2025

Mini-hackathons, coworking, new package and package news

rOpenSci 2024 Highlights

A summary of the highlights of the rOpenSci community in 2024 and some news for 2025.

Working together to push science forward

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