Exploring, experimenting, and building software and trust at rOpenSci’s unconf18

Author: Stefanie Butland

We held our 5th annual unconference in Seattle, May 21-22, 2018 at Microsoft’s Reactor space. Researchers, students, postdocs and faculty, R software users and developers, and open data enthusiasts from academia, industry, government, and non-profits came together for two days to hack on projects they dreamed up and for an opportunity to meet and work together in person. We brought together 60 people from 11 countries in 5 continents - North and South America, Europe, Australia and Africa. Nearly one third of US states were represented!

Read the unconf18 summary here: https://ropensci.org/blog/2018/06/05/unconf18/