Leveraging R-Ladies Paris Reach for Community Impact

Chaima Boughanmi - Mouna Belaid

useR! 2024

2024-02-07

Plan

Introduction to R-Ladies Global and R-Ladies Paris
Tips and advice for maintaining an R-Ladies Chapter
What kind of support can you expect?
Connecting with R-Ladies at useR! 2024 in Salzburg
Guidelines for opening a new chapter

Introduction of R-Ladies Global

- Organization dedicated to promoting gender diversity in the R programming community.

- Founded in 2012, by Gabriela de Queiroz.

- It aims to create a supportive network for gender minorities who use R.

- Missions achieved by organizing meetups, workshops, and social events.

Chapters around the world

Introduction of R-Ladies Paris

- Was founded in 2016.

- Serves as a vibrant community for R practitioners based in France.

- Provides a supportive environment where members can learn, share, and grow together.

Our organizing team

Mouna Belaid - Data Consultant mounabelaid.netlify.app

Chaima Boughanmi - Data Scientist chaimabgh.netlify.app

Our 2023 Annual Report

Overview of our Meetups in 2023

Activities promoting R-Ladies Paris

**Mouna** presented the R-Ladies Paris community at the **Rencontres R** french local conference dedicated to R users, held in **France** in June 2023.

**Mouna** was awarded the Opportunity Scholarship and had the chance to meet fellow R-Ladies members at the **posit:conf**(2023), held in **Chicago**.

Activities promoting R-Ladies Paris

This year **Chaima** was awarded the Opportunity Scholarship and will be attending the **posit::conf**(2024) that will be held in August in **Seattle**.

How to maintain an R-Ladies chapter?

Identify speakers and relevant topics for your community

How to maintain an R-Ladies chapter?

Where to find potential speakers?

Visit the Directory provided by R-Ladies Global on their official website. The directory is filled with information about speakers who believe in R-Ladies’ mission.
Look for speakers on Slack at the R-Ladies Community and the R-Ladies workspace dedicated to organizers.

How to maintain an R-Ladies chapter?

Make meetups accessible to everyone interested

Share Recording Videos on YouTube.
Use platforms like Zoom or Google Meet to host virtual meetups, take advantage of interactive features such as screen sharing, breakout rooms, and live Q&A sessions to keep participants engaged.
Use Meetup to promote your events.

How to maintain an R-Ladies chapter?

Collecting testimonies from speakers

What kind of support you can expect?

Gain valuable support from the R-Ladies chapter mentoring program

Any experienced R-Ladies organizers can be mentors, as long as they have the time to commit to mentorship.

What kind of support you can expect?

Benefits from the digital infrastructure provided by R-Ladies Global

Custom rladies.org email address.
Subscription on meetup.com
Hosting online meetups via R-Ladies Global Zoom account
Share meetup replays on R-Ladies Global YouTube channel.

What kind of support you can expect?

Explore R-Ladies Slack channels

The Organizers’ Slack workspace has a lot of channels that cover different topics, such as jobs, online meetups, and more.
You can create a channel on Slack for communication within your chapter’s organizing team.

What kind of support you can expect?

Ask for a grant from R Consortium

What kind of support you can expect?

Get visible through the awesome R-Ladies Blogs and the R-Ladies Bot developed by Cosima Meyer

Setting up the Awesome R-Ladies‘ Blogs Repository
Building Mastodon Bots

Connecting with R-Ladies at useR! 2024 in Salzburg

Join R-Ladies Meetup dinner at Austria’s oldest wheat beer brewery on July 8.
“Balancing Global Infrastructure and Local Autonomy: Lessons from R-Ladies Global” - Shannon Pileggi on July 8.
Join fellow R-Ladies during lunch on July 9. Look for the reserved table, and join the R-Ladies community for a Birds of a Feather discussion.

events.linuxfoundation.org/user/additional-programming/social-activities/

Guidelines for opening a new chapter

Interested in starting a new R-Ladies chapter?

Thank you for your attention!