useR talks post first commit

content/blog/2021-07-02-ropensci-useR2021/index.md

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+---
+title: rOpenSci at useR!2021 - Presentations from Staff and Community
+author:
+  - Stefanie Butland
+date: '2021-07-02'
+slug: ropensci-user2021
+tags:
+  - events
+  - conference
+description: 4 rOpenSci staff presentations at useR! 2021
+output:
+  html_document:
+    keep_md: yes
+---
+Are you putting together your useR!2021 conference schedule this weekend? Four rOpenSci staff and lots of community members are giving presentations and there's something for everyone!
+
+## Talks by rOpenSci staff
+
+**Jeroen Ooms**, Lead Infrastructure Engineer, will give a [**keynote talk**](https://www.conftool.org/user2021/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=34#paperID355) about [**the R-universe project**](/r-universe/) on Friday, July 9, 12:30PM - 1:30PM UTC / 5:30AM PDT.
+
+**Stefanie Butland**, Community Manager, will present on [**rOpenSci's Model for Managing a Federated Open Source Software Community**](https://www.conftool.org/user2021/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=8#paperID260) on Monday, July 5, 5:05PM UTC / 10:05AM PDT.
+
+**Mark Padgham**, Software Research Scientist, will  give a [regular talk about his original **autotest**](https://www.conftool.org/user2021/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=14#paperID169) package for automatic testing of packages, on Tuesday, July 6, 8:45AM UTC / 1:45PM PDT.
+
+**Maëlle Salmon**, Research Software Engineer, will give a [tutorial](https://user2021.r-project.org/program/tutorials/), **GET better at testing your R package!** on Wednesday, July 7, 7-10AM UTC / 12AM PDT. This tutorial is about advanced testing of R packages, with HTTP testing as a case study. The tutorial has no spots left, but it will be recorded and [materials are available online](https://http-testing-r.netlify.app/).
+
+## Talks about rOpenSci packages and peer review
+
+**Andrea Gilardi** will talk about his rOpenSci-reviewed [osmextract](https://docs.ropensci.org/osmextract/) package [**osmextract: An R package to download, convert, and import large OpenStreetMap datasets**](https://www.conftool.org/user2021/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=13#paperID141), on Tuesday, July 6, 9:45AM UTC / 2:45AM PDT. 
+
+**Michael Mahoney** will talk about his rOpenSci-reviewed package [terrainr](https://docs.ropensci.org/terrainr/) in [**Virtual Environments: Using R as a Frontend for 3D Rendering of Digital Landscapes**](https://www.conftool.org/user2021/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=16#paperID159), on Tuesday, July 6, 11:55AM UTC / 5:15AM PDT. 
+
+**Lluís Revilla Sancho** will talk about [**Packages submission and reviews; how does it work?**](https://www.conftool.org/user2021/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=8#paperID228)_ using data about review process of three archives of R packages, CRAN, Bioconductor and rOpenSci. That talk will happen in the same session as Stefanie's presentation, on Monday, July 5, 5:45AM UTC / 10:45AM  PDT.
+
+**Daniel Vartanian** will talk about his [mctq package](https://github.com/gipsousp/mctq) currently under review in [**mctq: An R Package for the Munich ChronoType Questionnaire**](https://www.conftool.org/user2021/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=32#paperID114), on Tuesday, July 6, ~12:45AM UTC / 5:45PM PDT. 
+
+You can view the [conference schedule](https://user2021.r-project.org/program/schedule/) in the timezone of your choice. For a screen-reader-accessible version of the schedule, see the [schedule on ConfTool](https://www.conftool.org/user2021/sessions.php). Recordings of the presentations will be available after the conference.
+
+We're all excited to hear your feedback. Come talk to us!