rOpenSci Community Call: Set Up Your Package to Foster a Community

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# Set Up Your Package to Foster a Community
### Labelling issues

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April 22, 2021

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# My package's community took me by surprise!

<blockquote align = "center" class="twitter-tweet" data-cards="hidden"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/rstats?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#rstats</a> packages grow up so fast these days :)</p>&mdash; Alex K (@Alex_Koiter) <a href="https://twitter.com/Alex_Koiter/status/1380667063597989890?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 9, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

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# Low-hanging fruit: Issue labels!

1\. **Why bother?**
- Users can be shy (esp. new users); "Help wanted" is an open invitation
- Labels can be searched
  - [All rOpenSci issues](https://github.com/search?q=org%3Aropensci++state%3Aopen&type=Issues)
  - ['Help wanted' rOpenSci issues](https://github.com/search?q=org%3Aropensci+label%3A%22help+wanted%22+state%3Aopen&type=Issues)
  
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2\. **rOpenSci Contributing Guide** -  [contributing.ropensci.org](https://contributing.ropensci.org/resources.html#issues)

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3\. **Let's Go** - [For example...](https://github.com/ropensci/weathercan)

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4\. **Who has the time?**
  - I'm terrible at this!

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# rOpenSci Social Label-athon

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**Thursday, 29 April 2021**  
**16:00 UTC / 9:00 Pacific** (1.5 hrs)  
Registration encouraged

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**Online social!**  
Co-working* to make our packages contributor-friendly

Code of Conduct? Contributing guide? Roadmap and expectations? 
Open and label issues to invite contributions?

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**Afterwards, we'll tweet links to"help wanted" issues**
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\* Working at the same time on our own projects  
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# We can learn together!

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# Social Experiment

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.center[**Experimental feature!**]

- Four label-athons (or more?)
- Alternating times to accommodate our community around the world
- **Thursdays April 29, May 13, May 27, June 10**

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**More Information:** <https://ropensci.org/events/labelathon01>

**Interested? [Please register!](https://form.jotform.com/210906095013043)**
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##Time for a poll!
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