Cardiff R Hacktoberfest

Event Description

A hacktoberfest virtual meetup!

We have a few projects to consider working on for hacktoberfest in the Cardiff R User group:

badgeR is an R package written by Dom for our Cardiff SatRday in 2019 to help design and produce badges for the attendees to wear: https://github.com/satRdays/badgeR
We want to extend it's function with a few new features to encourage it's use in other satRdays around the world!

satRday_site_template is a Hugo website that has made each the individual conference websites for a few years now: https://github.com/satRdays/satRday_site_template
There are a range of jobs to do here including extending it with new features, fully closing down a few small bugs, and updating/replacing some of the default dependencies which are no longer maintained. Theres also a potential GitHub action to be created which would smooth the request and deployment process for each individual conference.

tdor provides data on killings and suicides of transgender people, as memorialized in the Transgender Day of Remembrance: https://github.com/CaRdiffR/tdor . There are a range of issues to contribute to documentation and extending the API integration which would all be beneficial.

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Incidentally this year DEV.TO are also sponsoring the event, and Dave spent a bit of time this summer writing a package to help publish .Rmd documents to dev.to: https://github.com/DaveParr/dev.to.ol so if you're interested in dev.to as a blog service, or already active, there are a few items that can be contributed there too :)

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