R Project Sprint 2023

August 30 - September 1, 2023
University of Warwick, UK

The R Project Sprint 2023 is a 3-day event for novice and experienced R contributors to work collaboratively on the development and maintenance of the open source statistical software R. Full details of the event are on the R Project Sprint 2023 website.

Anyone interested in contributing to R is welcome to nominate themselves for a place at the sprint. Thanks to our sponsors, all workshop participants will be accommodated free of charge during the sprint, in on-campus housing at the University of Warwick, with meals provided.

Funding is also available for travel expenses, however if participants are able to get travel funding from other sources this will allow more people to attend - companies or other funding bodies providing such support to participants will be acknowledged as sponsors.

Key dates

Deadline for self-nomination: Friday 10 March
Notification of selection: Friday 24 March

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This is a form to nominate yourself to participate in the R Project Sprint 2023 and to apply for travel funding, if required. It is not a registration form - participants will be selected from the nominations received according to space and funding available.

Full name

Occupation

Affiliation

Country of residence

Email address

Main personal webpage, e.g. academic homepage, blog, LinkedIn page, GitHub page

Funding is available for travel, to be reimbursed on the basis of receipts, or to be booked directly by Warwick University's travel management company. This would cover economy return travel from your place of residence to the campus.

If participants are able to get travel funding from other sources this will allow more people to attend - companies or other funding bodies providing such support to participants will be acknowledged as sponsors.

Please estimate the funding you would require for bus/train/air fare to Warwick University, in GBP

I can only participate remotely

If you anticipate other expenses, e.g. visa fees, childcare, co-working space for remote participation, please detail them here so that we can determine if they can be covered. (Note full board campus accommodation will be provided for in-person participants during the sprint).

Please help us to ensure the sprint facilitates participation of underrepresented groups by answering the following questions.

Yes

Prefer not to answer

R-Ladies

Minorities in R

RainbowR

AfricaR

ArabR

AsiaR

LatinR

Please help us to ensure the sprint brings together developers with a range of experience by answering the following questions

How comfortable are you with…?

Not at all

Somewhat

Very

Debugging R functions

Writing R functions

Writing R Documentation (Rd) files

Writing tests for R functions

Translating R messages

Writing S3/S4 methods/classes

Programming in C

How familiar are you with…?

Not at all

Somewhat

Very

Using git/svn

Using R’s Bugzilla

Using R’s Weblate

Building R from source

Do you have specialized knowledge/skills to bring? E.g. particular expertise in statistical/computational methods, graphics, documentation formats, operating systems, infosec, foreign languages, etc.

Tell us about your experience contributing to the R project, including any work for the community (e.g. package development, user groups, etc)

Why are you interested in attending the sprint? What do you hope to get out of it?

Is there anything else we should take into consideration? If are you applying for remote only participation, please explain why it is not possible to attend in person and confirm your availability during the days of the sprint.

Privacy notice

The University of Warwick will process your personal data provided on this online registration form for the purpose(s) of administering and facilitating your attendance at the R Project Sprint 2023.

The legal basis for processing this personal data is consent. You may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting h.turner.1@warwick.ac.uk. However, if you do so then we will not be able to consider your application for a place at this event.

Your personal data will not be transferred outside of the UK, will be kept securely by the University of Warwick and will be retained for a period of six months after the event has taken place.

You may exercise rights in respect of your personal data. These are the right of access to it, to rectify inaccurate information, to restrict processing or erase personal data, to object to our processing of it and to transfer it to another controller. If you wish to exercise a right please contact infocompliance@warwick.ac.uk.

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