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* add mp rescon24 to oct news + event update

* Update content/blog/2024-10-23-news-october-2024/index.Rmd

Co-authored-by: Maëlle Salmon <[email protected]>

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Co-authored-by: Maëlle Salmon <[email protected]>
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I just sneaked this in so reviewing it got bumped up the list to a 'this-week' priority 😉

Looks good, and I added the coworking event (although it hasn't been reviewed by the community hosts yet, so I may need to tweak it if they have suggestions).

Thanks!

  • I ran roblog::ro_lint_md() on index.md
  • I ran roblog::ro_check_urls() on index.md
  • I ran a spell-check on index.md


## rOpenSci HQ

### Fostering Open Science in Latin America: CZI Awards Funds for Sustainable Research Software Development
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### Fostering Open Science in Latin America: CZI Awards Funds for Sustainable Research Software Development
### Fostering open science in Latin America: CZI awards funds for sustainable research software development

To start the tour, click on the "Website Tour" button on the navbar -- note that it does not work on mobile devices.
Example: [xml2 package](https://r-lib.r-universe.dev/xml2).

### The rOpenSci community at upcoming events
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Should we add some more details of all the other things going on during LatinR? Or at least link to the event: https://ropensci.org/events/latinr-2024/

- [Tuesday, November 5th, 09:00 Americas Pacific (17:00 UTC)](/events/coworking-2024-11), "Getting to know Openscapes" with cohost [Stefanie Butland](/author/stefanie-butland) and [Steffi LaZerte](/author/steffi-lazerte).
- Look up [Openscapes](https://openscapes.org/)
- Chat with our cohost to learn more about the Openscapes organization, and how they use R to automate creating open education infrastructure

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- [Tuesday, December 3rd, 09:00 Australia Western (01:00 UTC)](/events/coworking-2024-12), "Getting Involved in the Antarctic/Southern Ocean rOpenSci Community" with cohosts [Michael Sumner](/author/michael-sumner ) and [Ben Raymond](/author/ben-raymond), and [Steffi LaZerte](/author/steffi-lazerte).
- [Explore rOpenSci R packages](/blog/2018/11/13/antarctic/#demo) supporting Antarctic and Southern Ocean Research
- Chat with our cohosts to find out how you can be involved in this community

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I added the community call and more detail about LatinR.


rOpenSci Community Manager [Yanina Bellini Saibene](/author/yanina-bellini-saibene/) will deliver a keynote talk at [BioNT Community Event & CarpentryConnect-Heidelberg 2024](/events/carpentryconnect-2024/), on November 14th in Heidelberg, Germany.

[Will Landau](/author/will-landau/) will deliver a keynote talk at [LatinR (Latin American Conference About the Use of R in R&D)](/events/latinr-2024/). The conference is happening online from November 18-22.
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[Will Landau](/author/will-landau/) will deliver a keynote talk at [LatinR (Latin American Conference About the Use of R in R&D)](/events/latinr-2024/). The conference is happening online from November 18-22.
Several members of the rOpenSci community will be part of this year’s [LatinRLatin American Conference About the Use of R in R&D](https://latinr.org/en/)!
[Will Landau](/author/will-landau/) and [Julia Silge](/author/julia-silge/) are the keynote speakers of the conference !
[François Michonneau](https://ropensci.org/author/fran%C3%A7ois-michonneau/) will teach the tutorial [Working with larger than memory data in R with Arrow and DuckDB](https://www.eventbrite.cl/e/tutorial-working-with-larger-than-memory-data-in-r-with-arrow-and-duckdb-tickets-1044938257457?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl) in English. Tuesday, November 19th. 10:00 to 12:00 UTC -3.
[Beatriz Milz](https://ropensci.org/author/beatriz-milz/) and [Yani Bellini Saibene](https://ropensci.org/author/yanina-bellini-saibene/) tutorial [Introduccion a Github para Investigador(a|e)s](https://www.eventbrite.cl/e/introduccion-a-github-para-investigadoraes-tickets-1045617188157?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl) in Spanish. Monday, November 18th. 14:00 to 17:00 UTC -3.
We also organize one of the satellite event [Tradução + Hackathon = Traslaton rOpenSci](https://www.eventbrite.cl/e/traducao-hackathon-traslaton-ropensci-tickets-1045507530167) with [Pedro Faria](https://ropensci.org/author/pedro-faria/), [Francesca Palmeira](https://ropensci.org/author/francesca-belem-lopes-palmeira/), [Beatriz Milz](https://ropensci.org/author/beatriz-milz/), and [Yani Bellini Saibene](https://ropensci.org/author/yanina-bellini-saibene/): we will get together to learn about rOpenSci and how to contribute to the [Portuguese translation project](https://github.com/orgs/ropensci/projects/7). Monday, November 18th. 10:00 to 12:00 UTC-3. ([find your time](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Tradu%C3%A7%C3%A3o+%2B+Hackathon+%3D+Traslaton+rOpenSci&iso=20241118T10&p1=51&ah=1))
[Check the full list of talks and other events were rOpenSci members will be participating](/events/latinr-2024/).

[Mark Padgham](/author/mark-padgham) presented a talk on "*rOpenSci statistical software peer-review: The importance and challenge of community engagement*".
The talk was second in a two-part session devoted to software peer review, and followed a [walk-through demonstration of the process of submissing to Journal of Open Source software](https://virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/49081/submission/69).
Find [Mark's slides](https://mpadge.github.io/presentations/2024/rseconf/).

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### Our first community call in Portuguese!
**[A comunidade R fala português](/commcalls/translation-portuguese/)**
🕓 Wednesday, 06 November 2024 13:00 UTC
With [Pedro Faria](/author/pedro-faria/), [Beatriz Milz](/author/beatriz-milz/), [Francesca Belem Lopes Palmeira](/author/francesca-belem-lopes-palmeira/).
The R Community is carrying out several translations into Portuguese of different resources: books, packages and guides.
In this community call, three leaders from the Portuguese-speaking community will present their experiences leading and being part of these projects and share how we can participate in these efforts, including rOpenSci Developer Guide translation project.
This community call will be followed by a [translaton at LatinR](https://www.eventbrite.cl/e/traducao-hackathon-traslaton-ropensci-tickets-1045507530167), for those who want to contribute.

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