rOpenSci Champions: Building Communities of Open-Source Leaders
summary
rOpenSci runs a 12-month part-time fellowship that trains collaborative R package authorship, peer review, and community leadership; it runs two 10-person cohorts per year with applicants from 55+ countries, provides stipends, and teaches Git-as-collaboration, code review, event organizing, and mentorship. Fellows build real tools (Argentine census processing, Brazilian transport, Taiwan bird-survey packages) that quickly gain local adoption, mentors report mutual learning, and the program measures community formation and sustained maintainer recruitment.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00rOpenSci Champions intro
- 1:05Open science goals and values
- 2:53Sustaining open-source software
- 6:32Small teams communities
- 8:00Program design
- 10:26Accessibility and support
- 12:13Teaching collaborative skills
- 14:47Peer contributions projects
- 16:34Program evaluation
- 18:25Leadership cultivation
- 20:16Future leaders
- 21:19Closing remarks
- 21:40Q&A: Champions backgrounds
- 22:22Q&A: Student opportunities
- 23:04Q&A: PyOpenSci polyglot
- 24:09Q&A: How to apply
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