rOpenSci is a non-profit initiative founded in 2011 by Karthik Ram, Scott Chamberlain, and Carl Boettiger. Staff includes developers, researchers, and community builders. Non-staff strategic advisors and editorial board members are volunteers.

Objectives

• Creating technical infrastructure in the form of carefully vetted, staff and community-contributed R software tools that lower barriers to working with scientific data sources on the web
• Making the right data, tools and best practices more discoverable
• Creating social infrastructure through a welcoming and diverse community
• Promoting advocacy for a culture of data sharing and reusable software
• Building capacity of software users and developers and fostering a sense of pride in their work