Hello 2022

Welcome to a new year! The MiR Community has so many plans for engagement and learning opportunities. This is the year for our global community to come together and share our knowledge skills and lift each other up.

Editorial Calendar

Blog Posts: 2021 Date: November 2, 2021 Title: “Congrats to Kerritt Saintal!” Date: November 29, 2021 Title: “LGBTQ Rainbow Minority in Code” 2022 Date: January 11, 2022 Title: “Website Update and Volunteer recruitment drive. Talk about the updated website. This blogpost will be used for recruiting new volunteers for Social Media, Newsletter, Website, and Fundraising and rotating curator (Danielle).

New Website Design + Call for Volunteers

Event Chair MiR is a globally distributed organization. Events are at the core of what we do! The event chair’s primary responsibility will be to plan our calendar of events. In the next year, events (and the responsibilities thereof) may take several different forms: virtual events: aligning our stream of speakers and content in-person/virtual conferences: connecting conference-goers from MiR for the premier annual R conference events (UseR, R Studio Conf) in-person meetups: organizing COVID-compliant local meetups (pandemic-pending)

LGBTQ Rainbow Minority in Code

Analysis conducted by Zane on LGBTQ scientists who code (jobs that have “Developer'', “Data”, “Software”, etc. in Twitter description) show that within the MiR Twitter followers with a pride flag account for 2.52%, and the followers of TheStemVillage Twitter account make up 2.05% (n= 486)

Congrats to Kerritt Saintal!

R for the Rest of Us awarded MiR Community member with scholarship.