Community

New R-Ladies Website

There were some key issues we wanted to resolve with our webpage, that we could not easily maintain with the Wordpress site we had going:

  • Multilingual website: This is not the easiest to maintain with Wordpress
  • Very slow directory: The database was just too slow and heavy, page loading time was horrible
  • Integrate the blog into the website: The blog was a Blogdown site maintained through Github and Netlify
  • Easier long-term maintenance and collaboration: Wordpress would require making a user for every person that wanted to contribute to the site
    • Changing to something hosted on GitHub would mean easier community help and collaboration

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Request for Proposal - Javascript Development (Contract Work)

The R-Ladies global organization wants to implement some new functionalities (using Javascript) for a re-implementation of their website, whose source code may be found on GitHub.

R-Ladies would like to invite you to prepare a proposal to accomplish the above task that includes timeline, cost, and deliverables. The following RFP includes a background of our organization and describes the purpose of the redesign, its desired functionality, and specific requests relating to the proposal. We understand that details may be subject to change upon vendor recommendation and/ or research of more optimal solutions. In your proposal, please feel free to suggest alternatives where noted.

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R-Ladies+ Feat. useR! 2021

Promotional image for an RLadies+ feat. user! meetup on April 28th at 8 pm UTC. The meetup is associated with the user! 2021 The R Conference, which will take place from July 5-9, 2021. The event is hosted by RLadies+ chapters in Vitória, Bangalore, East Lansing, Tunis, Guayaquil, Cuenavarca, Santa Rosa & Den Bosch and aims to bring diverse voices to the user! conference, inviting attendees to learn from other RLadies+ about their user! experiences. The image features the RLadies logo (a stylized pink hexagon containing a white “R” and the word “Ladies” in pink) on the left and an illustration of a smiling marmot wearing a colorful scarf with the “R” logo on its chest on the right. The background is a solid blue.
Promotional image for an RLadies+ feat. user! meetup on April 28th at 8 pm UTC. The meetup is associated with the user! 2021 The R Conference, which will take place from July 5-9, 2021. The event is hosted by RLadies+ chapters in Vitória, Bangalore, East Lansing, Tunis, Guayaquil, Cuenavarca, Santa Rosa & Den Bosch and aims to bring diverse voices to the user! conference, inviting attendees to learn from other RLadies+ about their user! experiences. The image features the RLadies logo (a stylized pink hexagon containing a white “R” and the word “Ladies” in pink) on the left and an illustration of a smiling marmot wearing a colorful scarf with the “R” logo on its chest on the right. The background is a solid blue.

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Reduced Service Mode for R-Ladies Global

This year has been and continues to be a challenging year for many, if not all, of us.

We have needed to make some adjustments in our personal lives and as R-Ladies is a volunteer run organisation we also needed to make some changes in the work we do at R-Ladies Global.

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R-Ladies Infrastructure for Online Meetups

Our chapters have cancelled in-person meetups due to the corona virus pandemic. However, we want our members to be able to stay connected and still share their latest R-related discoveries and journeys. To support our chapter organisers in moving their events online, we decided to provide them with video conferencing infrastructure.

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Gabriela de Queiroz steps down from the R-Ladies Global Leadership Team

R-Ladies started out as a meetup group in San Francisco, when Gabriela de Queiroz founded the first chapter and organised the first event in 2012. Following this example, three further groups started out over the next three years. Shortly after the useR! conference in 2016, where Gabriela and other organisers met in person, the R-Ladies Global organisation was co-founded by several active community members.

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R-Ladies Global's response to the DataCamp Assessment Report

DataCamp’s CEO Jonathan Cornelissen sexually assaulted an employee by making “uninvited physical contact” in October 2017. This became public in April 2019, after which we released a statement on our blog. For a comprehensive account of events, please see this article by Davey Alba for BuzzFeed News published in May 2019. DataCamp commissioned a third-party review which has now been released. This blogpost is to add some clarification around references to R-Ladies made in that report.

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