rainbowR is a community that supports, promotes and connects LGBTQ+ people who code in the R language, and spreads awareness of LGBTQ+ issues through data-driven activism.
We are a friendly and safe community, providing opportunities for LGBTQ+ people with an interest in R to meet, chat and learn.
We use LGBTQ+ people as a term to cover
those who identify as being a minority sexual orientation, i.e. those who are not straight/heterosexual
those who are not cisgender, i.e. those whose sense of personal identity and gender does not correspond with their birth sex
To our straight, cis friends: we very much appreciate your allyship and your support of rainbowR, e.g. by sharing our information and posts on social media and by telling your friends and colleagues about us.
We run activities and initiatives, including monthly meet-ups and the buddies scheme, and we’re soon launching a book club.
Get involved!
If you are LGBTQ+ and want to join the rainbowR community, please fill in the join form. We aim to respond within a couple of days. You’ll receive a personal welcome email and an invitation to the Slack group. In the sign-up form, you can also opt-in to our newsletter.
We welcome everyone, LGBTQ+ or not, who is interested in promoting LGBTQ+ people and issues in the R community and beyond, to follow and engage with us on Mastodon, tech.lgbt/@rainbowR.
Meet the team!
Hanne Oberman (she/her, they/them), community co-lead
Hanne is a PhD candidate in the department of Methodology and Statistics at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. As part of their research on missing data methods, Hanne created and maintains R packages for valid analyses on incomplete datasets.
Previous team members
Zane Dax (she/they), community co-lead: website, GitHub
Ben Ulloa Ortiz, community co-founder
Erin LeDell, community co-founder
