Saranjeet Kaur Bhogal
Saranjeet is a Research Software Engineer at Imperial College London. She is also a Software Sustainability Institute Fellow 2023, has a Masters degree in statistics from the University of Pune, and is a Technical Writer for the R Development Guide. She has been involved with software engineering communities throughout her career and has been selected in open source programs including Google Summer of Code 2020, Code for Science and Society's Digital Infrastructure Incubator 2021, Google Season of Docs 2022, and as a Subject Matter Expert for the Open Science Tools and Resources Module of NASA TOPS. In 2021, she participated in the Open Life Science program (cohort-4), during which she co-founded the Research Software Engineering (RSE) Asia Association. For her work in the RSE community, she was awarded the RSE Impact Award 2022 at the Inaugural Community Awards by the Society of RSE.
Sessions
The R Development Guide (R Dev Guide) serves as a resource for onboarding new contributors to the R project. Initially drafted in 2021 and then expanded during the Google Season of Docs 2022, the guide has evolved to make contributing more accessible, especially for newcomers. This talk will explore the latest developments in the guide, its impact on the R community, and how it fosters inclusivity within the project by simplifying the contribution process.