R Community IDEA
Goal
IDEA stands for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility. The R-Community IDEA is a top level project of the R-Consortium with the goal of broadly considering how the R Consortium can best encourage and support diverse and inclusion across a variety of events and platforms.
How to Join
Any interested R community member is encouraged to participate. We meet on the first Monday of every month via Zoom from 7:00pm to 8:00pm (GMT+00:00) UTC.
Join the mailing list, to see the calendar and the Zoom link. You are also welcome to join the slack channel. If you have any questions about joining, feel free to reach out to Samantha Toet at samantha@rstudio.com or Rconsortium-wg-rcdi@lists.r-consortium.org.
Initial tasks
- Publicly recruit other members from the R community
- Organize, share, and promote an updated code of conduct for events
- Develop diversity/inclusivity best practices for organizing R community events
- Provide shortlist of existing resources to help conference organisers improve diversity/inclusivity
- Develop self-assessed conference badging guidelines
Deliverables
All of the below deliverables are a work in progress. We are actively recruiting new members to help us with the following:
- Revised Code of Conduct for Events
- Conference Organizers Checklist and Badges
- Recruitment of Diverse Speakers
- R in Africa Support
- Participant Diversity and Support for International Travel and Remote Participation
License
All project materials are available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license