Present: gwynn, Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel, Liz Hare, Andrea Sanchez-Tapia, Yani, Di Absent: Heather Turner
- Soon we will be updating all the teams
- ISC did not fund our grant for Alt-text in ggplot
- Liz talk at RLadies NYC on writing alt-text
ACTIONS
- Checking with CSS or CCI, maybe Yani could help?
- AfricaR WhatsApp group
ACTIONS
- French speaking SatRdays happening soon - please share on social media
useR! around the corner in 8 days
- program is ready
- trying platform tomorrow
- lots of registration questions
- accessibility not as good
- captioning
- automatic translation into 20 languages!!!!!
- platform not accessible for screenreaders
- fee waivers are all accepted
- Thanks Yani for finding funding for captions
- hopeful that next year will be more accessible
- must fix accessibility with Linux foundation
- around 1000 people registered, last year 1800 in slack space
- Next year
- up to R Foundation
- one proposal from Africa if not accepted, global team R Foundation does not work on useR!, besides to say that the R logo can be used
- R Consortium and RStudio getting this going
- the difficult part is transferring one team to the other, different group every year
- Things having getting better since 2016, website stored on RFoundation website
- standardize what every team should do
- strategy to help each other so organizing team listens
- pass this one to the RFoundation
- it's the experience of the people that are there
- Australian conference only had 700 people
- RFoundation does not fund useR!
- Forwards reccommendations really pushed this forward: https://gitlab.com/rconf/userknowledgebase
LatinR
- Call for abstracts is open and will be extended
- Online
- Call for tutorial - Portugues, Spanish, English - paid tutorials, symbolic fee to ensure attendance
- 1000 people last year
- Liz will help with accessibility
Knowledge base: https://gitlab.com/rconf/userknowledgebase
Get a report from the useR committee, RJournal can do special issues - articles in different languages
10 rules for inclusive conferences coming soon!
ACTIONS
- When ask for feedback say that "accessibility should be funded for the whole event and that some who worked on accessibility were not allowed to work on accessibility"
- AfricaR slack tell them to ask for a waiver
- [HT] Planning for Bug Barbecue event (https://contributor.r-project.org/events/bug-bbq). Still open for people to help out with facilitating, you can sign up here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xC4rL6aWSE-ITIPQME57XIw7-W7bfY0Lg8DocPLeZ-k/edit#gid=1261206945. Met with a representative from RStudio today who may be able to provide access to an RStudio Workbench with R-Devel pre-installed, making the workflow easier for novices.
ACTIONS Share on the slack channel: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xC4rL6aWSE-ITIPQME57XIw7-W7bfY0Lg8DocPLeZ-k/edit#gid=1261206945
ACTIONS Is this still a thing? Who has access to the social media accounts? pinned slack message for who is in charge of each group
We had a meeting last slackathon and the LatinAmerican poll leads (Pao and Claudia) told us about their progress, we have plans to send useR! 2022 the survey
useR! 2022 survey - build a survey and make changes
ACTIONS Blog post to come soon from Pao and Claudia
Start a useR! 2022 survey
- online, hybrid part
- first time attendent, very different answers from others
- Finish 2021 blog post
Neither Emma or Mine have given more workshops, RLadies chapters are copying the package development workshops. As RForwards or others who want to teach...
ACTIONS Blog post about how to teach the package development workshop
- Membership survey goes out in July with new Doodle polls for meeting availability.