Appendix E — Social Media examples
These are examples of social media posts for advertising the events.
E.1 Mini-hackathon
E.1.1 Registration for mentors
Original posted on Mastodon
Looking for Maintainers to Support First-Time Contributors
Making your first contribution to Open Source can be both empowering and intimidating. So we’re exited to announce a special series of activities to support first-time contributors to rOpenSci packages! 🎉
Are you an rOpenSci package maintainer who would like to help someone make their first contribution?
See our blog post for more details and how to sign up (by Nov 24): https://ropensci.org/blog/2024/10/22/first-time-contributions/
#RStats
@[email protected]
Original posted on Mastodon
Reminder!
Making your first contribution to Open Source can be both empowering and intimidating.
Therefore we’re exited to announce a special series of activities to support first-time contributors to rOpenSci packages! 🎉
We’re hoping to get enough maintainers registered by this Sunday (Nov 24th) so we can start the ball rolling finding times that work for everyone in 2025.
If you’ve been thinking about it, here’s a mini push to register 😄
https://ropensci.org/blog/2024/10/22/first-time-contributions/
#RStats
@[email protected]
E.1.2 Registration for participants
Original posted on Mastodon
Coworking Mini-Hackathon for First-Time Contributors 🎉
Curious or excited about contributing to Open Source Software? Would you like some support to get started? If any of the above, our upcoming coworking mini-hackathons are for you!
Feb 4th 2025 1-3 UTC and March 4th 2025 13-15 UTC
Join us and contribute to R packages while package maintainers and other mentors are available ‘live’ to answer questions and give guidance.
See our blog post for more details: https://ropensci.org/blog/2025/01/24/coworking-hackathons/
#RStats
@[email protected]
E.1.3 Reminders
Original posted on Mastodon
Coworking Mini-Hackathon for First-Time Contributors next week!
Tuesday March 4th 14:00 European Central (13:00 UTC)
Join other participants and mentors to make contributions to R packages in a fun and supportive environment.
Registration is appreciated but not required.
https://ropensci.org/events/coworking-2025-03
#RStats
@[email protected]
Original posted on Mastodon
Coworking Mini-Hackathon for First-Time Contributors coming up in an hour!
Join other participants and mentors to make contributions to R packages in a fun and supportive environment.
Registration is appreciated but not required.
https://ropensci.org/events/coworking-2025-03
#RStats
@[email protected]
E.2 Traslathon
E.2.1 Before the event
Original posted on Mastodon
Essa chamada da comunidade será seguida por uma reunião de tradução na (latinr_conf?)
🕓 Monday, 18 November 2024 - 13:00 UTC. ✨ https://www.eventbrite.cl/e/traducao-hackathon-traslaton-ropensci-tickets-1045507530167
Original posted on Mastodon
Es hoy! Es hoy!!!
Arranca (latinr_conf?)
Venite al Traslaton de (rOpenSci?) a las 10:00 am UTC-3
https://www.eventbrite.cl/e/traducao-hackathon-traslaton-ropensci-tickets-1045507530167
E.2.2 During the event
Live posting of the activities happening during the event. Original posted on Mastodon
Our (rOpenSci?) Traslaton started !!
(pedropark99?) is explaining our review process
Now (beamilz?) is doing the first review of the PR with the authomatic translation of our CoC in Portuguese:
https://github.com/ropensci/roweb3/pull/890 …
E.2.3 At the end of the event
Original posted on Mastodon
Traslatón summary:
4 merged PR by (pedropark99?) + Rafael Fontenelle + Ildeberto Vasconcelos
CoC Automatic translation finished + First Review finished + Second Review started by (beamilz?) and Francesca Palmeira
2 first review started by Bea Milz and Rafael Fontenelle
1 second review started by Ariana Cabral and 1 finished by Samuel Carleial
We discuss a Portuguese glossary and the overall process.
Thank so much to all the participants 🙏 🤩 🚀