Clarifying the types of blog posts we want to promote

[steffilazerte]

@karthik @jeroen @yabellini @mpadge @maelle @noamross,

I'm opening this issue to collect ideas of the themes or topics we'd like to promote on the Blog Guide (we currently have a themes section in the Content Chapter).

Be as general or as specific as you like (if it's very specific, we may try to solicit a blog post on that topic exactly, rather than put it in the themes list).

So what themes are important to you?

[maelle]

Use cases of our packages (like what we collect via the forum, but longer form)

[noamross]

• Data sharing stories:

  • Research I was able to do by accessing open data with rOpenSci packages (similar to use cases)
  • Someone used data that I published with the help of rOpenSci (packages) and all we got was this great new science/collaboration

• Peer review

  • What I learned doing peer review and how I am applying it in other contexts
  • Collaborations that emerged out of peer review

• Scientific publishing

  • Use cases specific to bibliometrics and the scientific publishing ecosystem

• Tech notes:

  • Best practices for wrapping external tools
    • Example from wrapping non-R scientific software
  • Best practices for wrapping C/Rust libraries (@jeroen 😉)

[yabellini]

• Teaching with rOpenSci (lessons, workshops, activities, cheat sheets of packages, r-universe of lessons/data, translated materials)

• Champions program:

  • Experience being champions/mentor/trainer
  • Projects developed by champions
  • Events organized under the program (with other communities)

• Translations/multilingual:

  • how we use the translated material
  • or the packages created for the translation process
  • Experience being a reviewer or editor or maintainer of a project/language

• Cross-community/organization: collaborations that happened thanks to rOpenSci.