We kick off this semester’s Sheffield R User Group meetings in October with a series of hackathons to participate in Hacktoberfest 2024.
Hacktoberfest is an annual “month-long celebration of all things open-source” that runs across GitHub and GitLab which “welcome[s] anyone who is interested in diving in, and everyone who’s already part of the open-source software community.”. These sessions are open to all regardless of your skill level and experience with writing R code, documentation or using Git, GitHub or GitLab.
We have planned four meetings across the month of October to help and support each other in contributing to open-source projects related to the R language and ecosystem including rOpenSci and Bioconductor. In the first session on Friday 2024-10-04 we will go over the basics of Git and contributing via GitHub/GitLab to open-source projects and how to go about finding R projects with issues that you could tackle and solve as part of Hacktoberfest 2024.
The remaining sessions will be held weekly on Fridays at lunch time from 12:30-13:30 in the University of Sheffield’s Students Union. During these sessions you can come along and seek support and offer help to those who have questions, whether that is with some aspect of R, documentation, continuous integration, linting, tests or anything you have been working on as part of Hacktoberfest.
Schedule
| Date/Time | Venue | Google Meet |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-10-04 17:00-18:30 | Blue Room G22 Computer Science, Regents Court | https://meet.google.com/pjo-rskm-ktk |
| 2024-10-11 12:30-13:30 | VR4 Meeting Room, University of Sheffield Students Union | https://meet.google.com/yjs-psie-vjh |
| 2024-10-18 12:30-13:30 | VR4 Meeting Room, University of Sheffield Students Union | https://meet.google.com/yjs-psie-vjh |
| 2024-10-25 12:30-13:30 | VR5 Meeting Room, University of Sheffield Students Union | https://meet.google.com/yjs-psie-vjh |
Preparation
To participate you will need a GitHub and/or a GitLab account and to register between 2024-09-23 and 2024-10-31 on the Hacktoberfest site.
Learn More
There are a bunch of resources available at Resources for Beginners if you are unfamiliar with Git or GitHub/GitLab but these aren’t essential as we are aiming to cover the basics and help you over the course of these events.
If you are interested in making contributions to R core - the code and documentation that gets distributed as base R - check out the information from R Contributor Site.