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---
title: "Forwards"
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## Mission
Leading the R community forwards in widening the participation of women and other under-represented groups.
Find out more [about](about.html) the task force.
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## News
*For more details on past workshops, see the [Edu](edu) section.*
*2023-11-18, Montevideo, Uruguay* - Yanina Bellini Saibene co-chairs [LatinR2022](https://latin-r.com/), which includes a keynote by Di Cook, a lightning talk by Pao Corrales on contributing translations to R and a
contribution space for working on translations.
*2023-11-16* - RainbowR launch a [pilot buddy scheme](https://rainbowr.netlify.app/posts/2023-11-16_introducing-buddies/) to foster stronger connections between community members.
*2023-11-16* - Heather Turner gives a keynote on
[Contributing to R](https://hturner.github.io/IIConferenceOfR/) at the
II Conference of R (Spanish R Users conference) in Barcelona.
*2023-11-09* - Di Cook, Heather Turner and Jonathan Godfrey obtain grant from R
Consortium to support adding alt text to R Journal articles.
*2023-11-06* - Kevin O'Brien starts a monthly community call for organizers
of R User Groups, see the [Global R User Group](https://www.meetup.com/globalr/) meetup.
*2023-08-29* - Several Forwards members participate in [R Project Sprint 2023](https://contributor.r-project.org/r-project-sprint-2023/), an event to
encourage broader participation in contributing to base R.
*2023-05-29* - Di Cook co-mentors Abhishek Ulayil on second Google Summer of Code project on [Converting past R Journal articles to HTML](https://github.com/rstats-gsoc/gsoc2023/wiki/Converting-R-Journal-latex-documents-to-Rmarkdown-with-texor).
*2023-04-22* - Ella Kaye and Heather Turner give talk on [Sustainability and EDI in the R Project](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW6kRqktYQU) at satRdays London 2023.
*2022-10-12, Online* - Yanina Bellini Saibene co-chairs [LatinR2022](https://latin-r.com/), which includes [R translatón/Hackaton de tradução do R](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LURMdf1Uk8).
*2022-10-10* - Liz Hare talks to R-Ladies NYC about [Writing Meaningful Alt-Texts for Data Visualizations in R](https://lizharedogs.github.io/RLadiesNYAltText/#1).
*2022-08-01* - Yanina Bellini Saibene gives a keynote at CarpentryCon 2022 on [Achieving the change we want one conference at a time](https://yabellini.netlify.app/talk/keynote_carpentrycon_2022/).
*2022-08-08* - gwynn sturdevant and Jonathan Godfrey join panel at JSM 2022 on [Delivering Data Differently](https://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2022/onlineprogram/AbstractDetails.cfm?abstractid=319247).
*2022-08-06* - Kevin O’Brien and Sam Toet help organize the first [Francophone satRday](https://satrdays.org/blog/2022/07/20/2022-francophone/).
[older news items](oldnews)
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