R-Ladies

Organizer tips for inviting speakers

As a conference or meetup organizer you probably routinely invite speakers to your events. Kindness and good organization skills on your part will go a long way towards making it easier for speakers to do their job: prepare and deliver their talk! In this post we provide a list of tips, drawing on both our good and bad experiences as invited speakers.

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Rebranding Call For Proposal

Colors fade blue to violet left to right with white box in the middle that says Call for Proposal Rebranding R-Ladies to R-Ladies+; image of laptop adjacent.
Colors fade blue to violet left to right with white box in the middle that says Call for Proposal Rebranding R-Ladies to R-Ladies+; image of laptop adjacent.

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New R-Ladies–Bioconductor collaboration!

We are excited to share a new collaboration between R-Ladies and Bioconductor, two global communities committed to building diverse developer communities around the world.

R-Ladies is a worldwide organization whose mission is to promote gender diversity in the R community. R-Ladies Global started in 2016 and has expanded to more than 200 chapters across 60+ countries worldwide, with 100K+ members. R-Ladies chapters work alongside other like-minded communities at local, regional, and global levels.

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Tips for Submitting a Video Abstract to Posit Conf

Thinking about submitting a talk for Posit Conf 2025 but feeling nervous about recording a video abstract? You are not alone! It can feel intimidating at first, but the good news is it is just one minute and all about showcasing your idea effectively.

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Global Team Recruiting

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Photo by Hannah Busing on Unsplash. Alt text: Image of arms and hands of women wearing colorful sweaters in a circle with hands piled together.

TL; DR

The R-Ladies Global Team is recruiting new members! Please fill this form to submit yourself for consideration.

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New R-Ladies Website

There were some key issues we wanted to resolve with our webpage, that we could not easily maintain with the Wordpress site we had going:

  • Multilingual website: This is not the easiest to maintain with Wordpress
  • Very slow directory: The database was just too slow and heavy, page loading time was horrible
  • Integrate the blog into the website: The blog was a Blogdown site maintained through Github and Netlify
  • Easier long-term maintenance and collaboration: Wordpress would require making a user for every person that wanted to contribute to the site
    • Changing to something hosted on GitHub would mean easier community help and collaboration

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Global Leadership Team Transition

R-Ladies first began as a meet-up in 2012, and became a global organization in 2016. Since inception, the R-Ladies Global organization has been run on 100% volunteer effort from individuals and chapters throughout the world. The organization is built upon layers of support - the global leadership team, the broader global team, local chapter organizers, and community members - all who donate their time and effort to sustain the mission of promoting gender diversity in the R community.

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Request for Proposal - Javascript Development (Contract Work)

The R-Ladies global organization wants to implement some new functionalities (using Javascript) for a re-implementation of their website, whose source code may be found on GitHub.

R-Ladies would like to invite you to prepare a proposal to accomplish the above task that includes timeline, cost, and deliverables. The following RFP includes a background of our organization and describes the purpose of the redesign, its desired functionality, and specific requests relating to the proposal. We understand that details may be subject to change upon vendor recommendation and/ or research of more optimal solutions. In your proposal, please feel free to suggest alternatives where noted.

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R-Ladies+ Feat. useR! 2021

Promotional image for an RLadies+ feat. user! meetup on April 28th at 8 pm UTC. The meetup is associated with the user! 2021 The R Conference, which will take place from July 5-9, 2021. The event is hosted by RLadies+ chapters in Vitória, Bangalore, East Lansing, Tunis, Guayaquil, Cuenavarca, Santa Rosa & Den Bosch and aims to bring diverse voices to the user! conference, inviting attendees to learn from other RLadies+ about their user! experiences. The image features the RLadies logo (a stylized pink hexagon containing a white “R” and the word “Ladies” in pink) on the left and an illustration of a smiling marmot wearing a colorful scarf with the “R” logo on its chest on the right. The background is a solid blue.
Promotional image for an RLadies+ feat. user! meetup on April 28th at 8 pm UTC. The meetup is associated with the user! 2021 The R Conference, which will take place from July 5-9, 2021. The event is hosted by RLadies+ chapters in Vitória, Bangalore, East Lansing, Tunis, Guayaquil, Cuenavarca, Santa Rosa & Den Bosch and aims to bring diverse voices to the user! conference, inviting attendees to learn from other RLadies+ about their user! experiences. The image features the RLadies logo (a stylized pink hexagon containing a white “R” and the word “Ladies” in pink) on the left and an illustration of a smiling marmot wearing a colorful scarf with the “R” logo on its chest on the right. The background is a solid blue.

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Reduced Service Mode for R-Ladies Global

This year has been and continues to be a challenging year for many, if not all, of us.

We have needed to make some adjustments in our personal lives and as R-Ladies is a volunteer run organisation we also needed to make some changes in the work we do at R-Ladies Global.

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#BlackLivesMatter: A joint statement by Forwards and R-Ladies

As organizations committed to broadening diversity and inclusion in our community, we stand with #BlackLivesMatter and join those who demand justice for systemic oppression. Pervasive racism negatively impacts the participation of Black people in society. The current events in the USA echo what has happened and continues to happen to minoritised people across the world. We are aggregating resources and are taking deliberate actions to amplify the voices of Black, Indigenous and People of Color in the R community now and moving forward.

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R-Ladies Infrastructure for Online Meetups

Our chapters have cancelled in-person meetups due to the corona virus pandemic. However, we want our members to be able to stay connected and still share their latest R-related discoveries and journeys. To support our chapter organisers in moving their events online, we decided to provide them with video conferencing infrastructure.

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Gabriela de Queiroz steps down from the R-Ladies Global Leadership Team

R-Ladies started out as a meetup group in San Francisco, when Gabriela de Queiroz founded the first chapter and organised the first event in 2012. Following this example, three further groups started out over the next three years. Shortly after the useR! conference in 2016, where Gabriela and other organisers met in person, the R-Ladies Global organisation was co-founded by several active community members.

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R-Ladies Global's response to the DataCamp Assessment Report

DataCamp’s CEO Jonathan Cornelissen sexually assaulted an employee by making “uninvited physical contact” in October 2017. This became public in April 2019, after which we released a statement on our blog. For a comprehensive account of events, please see this article by Davey Alba for BuzzFeed News published in May 2019. DataCamp commissioned a third-party review which has now been released. This blogpost is to add some clarification around references to R-Ladies made in that report.

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IWD 2019 Twitter Action

Every year on March 8th, the world celebrates International Women’s Day (IWD). Although this date has different ways of celebration, it has one point in common - the fight for gender equality. The previous year, in 2018, an enthusiast R-Ladies’ group took the initiative for a massive project to tweet about all the profiles registered in the R-ladies directory, throughout 8th March 2018. In February this year, the year 2019, Yanina proposed to follow their lead and tweet about all the R-Ladies Chapters, throughout 8th March 2019.

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vacation <- grow(RLadiesNetwork)

We would like to tell you how one vacation lead to growth of R Ladies community in South America. The story involves multiple countries and crossing paths at the right time in life.

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3. Behind the scenes of R-Ladies IWD2018 Twitter action!

As told by Page and Sheila

On March the 8th, International Women’s Day, we ran a continuous feed of awesome R-Ladies profiles from our directory via @rladies_iwd2018. It was a blast! And a lot of team work too! To round out our three-part blog series of the IWD Directory campaign, we’ll discuss topics related to privacy law, contact information collection and the future of our R-Ladies directory project. You can also read the Part 1 and Part 2.

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History

R-Ladies was founded by Gabriela de Queiroz. She wanted to do something to give back to the R learning community after going to several meetups and learning a lot for free. The first meetup took place in San Francisco, California (United States) on October 1, 2012.

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