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rOpenSci News Digest, September 2025

Champions training, organization dashboard, coworking, new packages

A Gentle Introduction to Open Science

Steffi reviews a talk on open science. Don’t forget that it takes courage; be kind to yourself!

All the Ways to Programmatically Edit or Parse R Markdown / Quarto Documents

Overview of programmatic ways to analyze and edit Markdown files: Markdown, R Markdown, Quarto, Hugo files, you name it.

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....

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