Champions Program
🔗 Open Call for rOpenSci Champions Program 2023 Applications!
Research software should serve everyone in our communities, which means it needs to be sustainable, open, and built by and for all groups. Currently, however, there is a dismaying lack of diversity in open source communities in general and the R / research software community in particular. Developers in the R community are overwhelmingly white, male, and from a handful of countries. That disappointing lack of diversity is potentially detrimental to the sustainability, utility and productivity of projects.
The rOpenSci Champions Program is for people from historically and systematically excluded groups who are interested in contributing to rOpenSci and the broader open source and open science communities.
The rOpenSci Champion Program is part of a series of activities and projects we are carrying out to ensure our research software serves everyone in our communities and is supported through a grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
🔗 How to apply
🔗 Champions
If you want to be one of our champions here you can find goals, elegibility, benefits, and expectations for our program
Please, fill out the application form before Monday, Sep 4, 2023.
The application forms have to be filled in English. This template shows the information we require.
🔗 Mentors
Mentors support our cohort of rOpenSci Champions. Could you offer insight and advice to our selected Champions? Learn the details and express your interest by filling out the application form before Monday, Sep 4, 2023.
The application forms have to be filled in English. This template shows the information we require.
🔗 Application 2023 and Program 2023-2024 timeline
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| Jul 14, 2023 | Call for Champions and Mentor Applications opens |
| Jul 25, 2023 | [OPTIONAL] Community Call - Learn from other mentors and champions and get tips for submitting your application |
| Aug 17 & 23 | [OPTIONAL] Coworking Champions Application Clinics in different timezones (Aug 17 and Aug 23): receive help with your application to the Champions Program |
| Sep 4, 2023 | Call for applications closed |
| Sep 29, 2023 | Communication with selected Mentors |
| Oct 27, 2023 | Communication with selected Champions |
| Nov, 2023 | Kick-off event |
| Jan-Apr, 2024 | Training session, mentoring meetings, develop project |
| May-Oct, 2024 | Outreach activities, mentoring and cohort meetings, develop project |
| Nov, 2024 | End of term |
Please refer to the program timeline document for a more detailed program schedule for champions.
If you are interested in more details of the mentoring agenda, please refer to the mentoring details document.
🔗 Do you have any questions?
Please, check our frequentely asked question for champions and for mentors. You can also contact our Community Manager by email and check our resources about the program in English and Spanish.
