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+title: "New R-Ladies–Bioconductor collaboration!"
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+  Announcing a new collaboration between R-Ladies and Bioconductor
+author:
+  - name: Janani Ravi
+    url: https://github.com/jananiravi
+date: 2024-07-21
+categories:
+  - RLadies
+  - Bioconductor
+image: "rladies-bioc.png"
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+![](rladies-bioc.png){ width=50% fig-align="center"}
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+We are excited to share a new collaboration between R-Ladies and Bioconductor, two global communities committed to building diverse developer communities around the world.
+
+[R-Ladies](http://rladies.org) is a worldwide organization whose mission is to promote gender diversity in the R community.
+R-Ladies Global started in 2016 and has expanded to more than 200 chapters across 60+ countries worldwide, with 100K+ members.
+R-Ladies chapters work alongside other like-minded communities at local, regional, and global levels.  
+
+[Bioconductor](https://www.bioconductor.org/) develops, supports, and disseminates free open-source software that facilitates rigorous and reproducible analysis of data from current and emerging biological assays.
+The organization is dedicated to building a diverse, collaborative, and welcoming community of developers and data scientists.
+To this end, they have periodically elected [scientific](https://bioconductor.org/about/scientific-advisory-board/), [technical](https://bioconductor.org/about/technical-advisory-board/), and [community](https://bioconductor.org/about/community-advisory-board/) advisory boards committed to the technical and community aspects of Bioconductor.
+
+We are excited to begin a new initiative that aims to connect R-Ladies members who are also Bioconductor users or developers.
+This effort is designed as a key step towards bringing together passionate individuals committed to expanding diversity in the computational biology and bioinformatics developer space.
+This coincidence of interest between members of both communities has already manifested in several R-Ladies chapters organizing events related to Bioinformatics and several R-Ladies members being part of the Bioconductor community. 
+
+This announcement formalizes this spontaneous collaboration between the two communities. 
+Here are a few concrete ways in which we want to get the ball rolling:
+
+-   Announce each others' events on websites and social media.
+-   Jointly host events about bioinformatics/computational biology with local R-Ladies Chapters, benefiting both parties. 
+-   Promote R-Ladies local watch parties of live-casted or pre-recorded events and professional networking events for Bioconductor conferences (using content from BioC: BioC North America, BioCAsia, EuroBioC).
+-   Highlight Bioconductor speakers at R + computational biology R-Ladies events across chapters; similarly, highlight R-Ladies, who are interested in computational biology and developing Bioconductor packages, at BioC events.
+-   Do you have a new idea of collaboration for R-Ladies and Bioconductor that you don't see here? Please reach out to us!
+
+**Get Involved**
+
+Excited to join us in this initiative?
+Here's how you can get started:
+
+-   Learn more about and partake in our joint initiative at the [Bioconductor Working Group page](https://workinggroups.bioconductor.org/currently-active-working-groups-committees.html#r-ladies-and-bioc): this group is for Bioconductor members to learn about R-Ladies and how to get in contact with the community.
+-   Join #rladies channel in [Bioconductor Slack](https://slack.bioconductor.org/) to stay updated and connect with the community.
+-   Join the [R-Ladies Community Slack](https://guide.rladies.org/comm/slack/) to engage with the global R community (open to women and other gender minorities).
+
+We recently kicked off this journey with local networking in R-Ladies chapters worldwide (e.g., [Aurora, Colorado](https://www.meetup.com/rladies-aurora/events/302185687/)) and an R-Ladies meetup in Michigan during BioC 2024, co-hosted with [R-Ladies East Lansing](https://www.meetup.com/rladies-east-lansing/events/302185529/) (Michigan)!
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+We\'re looking forward to building something great together.
+Let us know what you think, share your ideas, or just say hi!