May was Open Source Software Maintainer Month. Behind every R package there is at least one person who responds to issues, reviews pull requests, keeps up with dependency changes, and makes sure everything still works. During Maintainer Month we wanted to celebrate rOpenSci’s package maintainer community.
The social media campaign
One of our commitments to our community is to amplify the people who make it work. Social media is one of the ways we do that, so we thought Maintainer Month would be a great opportunity to highlight the people behind the packages through a …