RainbowR was founded in 2017 by Ben Oritz Ulloa. It is a community driven organization that promotes LGBTQ people and issues within the R community.
- Website: rlgbtq.github.io (currently incomplete website with no content, as of July 22, 2021)
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/R_LGBTQ
The topic is to assist Rainbow R in the planning of social events at forthcoming R conferences. The format can follow the format used for UseR! 2019.
- We can contact the organizers of WhyR? UseR! 2020, RstudioConf and ask that arrangements be facilitated (i.e. meeting room provided)
- For smaller events, it would be presumably easier to make arrangements on the Rainbow R slack.
(Correctly, this is outside of the scope of the Forwards Taskforce. However the main organizer is happy for us to prepare projects and initiatives for Rainbow R)
- This needs more support and more advertising, as there is low engagement and awareness. (personal opinion, based on observation and lack of Tweets from the Twitter account. Looks like the account Tweets a few times a year around R conferences)