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July 13, 2022 27 mins

Tracy Teal, Open Source Program Director at RStudio, joins us to explore the practices, challenges, and structural aspects of managing and maintaining open source projects. She also shares with us a few of her favorite new and exciting things in the world of open source.

This episode was recorded live at the 2022 DataConnect Conference.

About Tracy Teal

Tracy Teal is the Open Source Program Director at RStudio and previously the Executive Director of The Carpentries. She has been working with open source communities, developing curriculum, and teaching people how to work with data and code as a developer, instructor, and project leader throughout her career.

Relevant Links

- Every Other Thursday (Book)

- Data Umbrella (Organization)

- PyMC-Data Umbrella Sprints (Event Series)

- DataKind (Organization)

- Data Science for Social Good (Organization)

- Paper on running inclusive hackathons (Paper, by Daniela Huppenkothen et al.)

- The Carpentries (Organization)

- Data Carpentry (Organization)

- ROpenSci (Organization)

- R-Ladies (Organization)

- PyLadies (Organization)

- CSCCE, Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement

- Tidyverse (Collection of R packages)

- Quarto (Open-source scientific and technical publishing system built on Pandoc)

- RStudio (Organization)

- @rstudio_glimpse (Twitter Account)

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