rOpenSci Hackathon

In addition to the core development team, we have invited several key R developers and scientists to collaborate on projects in an unconference unhackathon format. The goal is to have participants (or anyone really) informally propose ideas on our meeting GitHub repo before and during the meeting and hack on ones that seem exciting. We hope to work on various projects related to open science, data visualization, data pipelines and text mining.

The event is invitation only due to funding and space limitations, but we would like to open up a handful of spots to anyone interested in joining us. We welcome inquiries from scholars, students, developers, data managers, and any interested amateurs. You don't have to be an R expert as long as you're open to learning and brainstorming on exciting projects and ideas. If this sounds interesting to you please send an informal email to info at ropensci.org with a little bit of about what you do and why you are keen on attending this event. We especially encourage women and minorities to apply. Financial assistance for travel to the event may be possible depending on availability of funds. If you require financial support, please mention that in your email.

We are quite looking forward to a fun and intellectually engaging meeting.