May is Maintainer Month. The people behind the tools we rely on are doing incredible work and do not always get the support they deserve. Fund their work, or help spread the word.
Some of the maintainers looking for funding:
Randy Fay, lead maintainer of DDEV, used by over 19,000 developers every week. https://ddev.com/support-ddev/
Jess (xjm), Drupal core release manager since 2015. https://xjmdrupal.org/sponsor-me
Who are the maintainers you want to recognize?
π»οΈ Thank you to the 37 maintainers from 15 countries who agreed to participate in this #MaintainerMonth spotlights π π
These people maintain more than 50 packages that collectively serve thousands of researchers and data practitioners worldwide. π¦ π¬
And thanks to all the maintainers in our #RStats community for your work on the software tools that support our disciplines !π€©
Check our website to learn about more packages and more maintainers: https://ropensci.org/packages/
Β‘Meet Guada Pascal π¦π·! #MaintainerMonth #RStats
She is a Data Science Researcher based in Argentina. As an rOpenSci Champion, she developed matildaNLP, a package that includes a corpus of Spanish text from the Matilda initiative.
Find her at:
π orcid.org/0000-0003-0340-0037
π»οΈ github.com/guadapascal
π linkedIn.com/in/guadalupepascal
Meet Ezekiel Adebayo Ogundepo π³π¬ #MaintainerMonth
Ezekiel is a data scientist with 10+ years of experience in interpreting and analyzing data in a fast-paced environment.
As a rOpenSci Champion, Ezekiel worked on bulkreadr, an #RStats package to simplify and streamline the process of reading and processing bulk data operations.
Find him at:
π gbganalyst.github.io
π»οΈ github.com/gbganalyst
π LinkedIn.com/in/gbganalyst
Today's #MaintainerMonth Highlight is Austin Koontz πΊπΈ
Research Consultant for the Hoban Conservation Lab, studying conservation genetics in oaks with a background in bioinformatics and plant population genetics.
Is the maintainer of SymbiotaR2 package that allows users to access and download specimen and observation-based data from a published Symbiota2 portal.
Fin Austin at:
π akoontz11.netlify.app
π github.com/akoontz11
π @akoontz11
Meet Mauro Loprete πΊπΎ! #MaintainerMonth #RStats
Mauro is a Data Engineer, a Teacher Assistant, a Statistician, and a Databricks Data Engineer Professional.
As an #rOpenSci 's Champion, Mauro works on metasurvey package that provides a step-based pipeline for reproducible survey data processing.
Find Mauro at:
π github.com/mauroloprete
π»οΈ linkedin.com/in/mauro-loprete
π orcid.org/0000-0003-1560-0183
#MaintainerMonth Highlight: Bilikisu Wunmi Olatunji π³π¬!
Bilikisu is a Data Scientist and an R Shiny developer. She is a RUG and a RLadies+ chapter organizer.
As an rOpenSci Champions she developed and maintains chartkickR, an htmlwidget that seamlessly integrates with the Chartkick JavaScript library, providing R users with a straightforward interface to generate beautiful and interactive charts using R code.
Find Bilikisu at:
π business-datalab.com
π»οΈ github.com/BWOlatunji
π Meet Will Pearse! π¬π§
Associate Professor of Evolutionary Ecology at Imperial College London. He maintains {suppdata} for rOpenSci: a package that lets researchers download supplementary data files directly from published scientific articles across major journals.
Find Will at:
π pearselab.com
π» github.com/willpearse
π linkedin.com/in/will-pearse
π Meet Alex Koiter! π¨π¦
Professor & Environmental Scientist at Brandon University focused on soil erosion, watershed management, sediment dynamics, and geomorphology.
He maintains {mbquartR}, a package for working with Manitoba's quarter-section land survey system, useful for watershed and land management research in Canada.
Find Alex at:
π @Alex_Koiter
π» github.com/alex-koiter
π alexkoiter.ca
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