rOpenSci’s activities and spaces are supported by a Code of conduct
that applies to all people who participate in the rOpenSci community, including rOpenSci staff and leadership. It applies to all forms of interaction, including GitHub project repositories, the rOpenSci discussion forum, Slack, Community Calls, Co-working and social sessions, training and mentoring sessions, and in person at rOpenSci-hosted events, including affiliated social gatherings. Our Code of Conduct is developed and enforced by a committee composed of rOpenSci employees and an independent community member.
Here we report our annual evaluation of rOpenSci’s Code of Conduct, the reporting process and the internal guidelines for handling reports and enforcement.
Updates
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There are no changes to the committee members for 2026. The committee members are Natalia Morandeira (independent member),
Mark Padgham (rOpenSci Software Researcher) and
Yanina Bellini Saibene (rOpenSci Community Manager). We are responsible for receiving, investigating, adjudicating, enforcing and responding to all reports of potential violations of our Code. - No changes have been made to the text of the Code in English, Spanish or Portuguese.
- Because the text has remained unchanged, the version number has been maintained at 2.5, dated January 30, 2024.
Activities of committee members
An important aspect of our work as committee members is to ensure that the processes we follow are transparent, consistent and fair. To support this work, we have developed a series of templates that guide us through the different stages of incident response and reporting. We have openly shared these templates and explained them in detail in the blog post “Templates for the rOpenSci Code of Conduct Committee”.
Yanina Bellini Saibene was present BoF “Community safety and well-being: can we do more than ‘good enough’? at the Open Science CZI meeting to discuss best practices of the Code of Conduct with other organizations in the Open Science movement.
Contact details
We welcome your feedback via email at Ropensci.org, and we thank you for continuing to work with us to ensure rOpenSci remains a safe, enjoyable, friendly, and enriching environment for all who participate.
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