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Dear fellow developers and data scientists:
If everyone reading this would only give the price of a cup of coffee, I could fully focus on open source work for our community. But not everyone can or wants to contribute, and that’s okay.
For years I’ve built and maintained open source R packages (cpp11armadillo, capybara, gravity, tabulapdf, pointblank and more) that many people use every day. Every GitHub issue and email gets a response. This is my way of giving back, as my own research benefits from a wide range of R packages and tools developed by others.
I am a PhD student from Chile and currently in Canada. My scholarship payments have been delayed for almost five months now due to an administrative error where my name was misspelled.
I wrote about this a month ago and I’m still in the same situation. Every time I contact Service Canada by phone and email I get the same message “we will respond within 48 hours” but nothing changes. Rent and food can’t wait. To make ends meet, I’ve been:
1, Selling guitar pedals that I design and build (inspired by Queen and Dr. Brian May): https://www.instagram.com/maplebooster/. 2. Do freelance R and Shiny work. My fiverr page is https://www.fiverr.com/msepulveda3. 3. I try to answer R questions on my blog. I opened one form to collect questions and I try to answer them in blog posts.
I want my software and datasets to remain open. Before I consider paywalls or commercialization, I ask for the community’s support. If my packages have helped you, please consider making a small contribution Buy me a coffee.
Despite these challenges I’m not slowing down, slowing down means I get into a bad mood looking at how I’ve been using the credit cards and trying to keep my head above water, and among other reasons this has pushed me to leave my former PhD program to pursue a new path in Britain. Working on cpp4r and armadillo4r forces me to be busy debugging code while hearing on the phone, “All our agents are busy, please call later.” I’ll release a cool R package to use Table coming soon to shiny apps.
To everyone who helped with code, bug reports, or encouragement: thank you. Every bit of support helps keep this work going. The open source world thrives on mutual support. Today I ask for yours.
With appreciation and hope,
Pacha
PS If you can’t contribute financially, sharing this post with others who might benefit from my work is also a huge help. Open source is about supporting each other.
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