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title: "About R-Ladies Melbourne Inc."
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      href: https://twitter.com/RLadiesMelb
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      href: https://github.com/R-LadiesMelbourne
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      href: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClC5yNEjMoE3MmbK-mrV8Ow 
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      text: Email
      href: rladiesmelbourne@gmail.com
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      text: R-Ladies Melbourne Slack
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## Who we are

We are a registered non-profit organization and a local chapter of [**R-Ladies Global**](https://rladies.org/). Our aim is to promote gender diversity in the R community, both in Australia and worldwide.

As a diversity initiative, the mission of R-Ladies is to achieve proportionate representation by encouraging, inspiring, and empowering people of genders currently underrepresented in the R community. R-Ladies’ primary focus, therefore, is on supporting minority gender R enthusiasts to achieve their programming potential, by building a collaborative global network of R leaders, mentors, learners, and developers to facilitate individual and collective progress worldwide.

R-Ladies Melbourne Inc welcomes members of all R proficiency levels, whether you're a new or aspiring R user, or an experienced R programmer interested in mentoring, networking & expert upskilling. Our community is designed to develop our members' R skills & knowledge through social, collaborative learning & sharing.

## What we do

We host regular meet-ups, usually monthly or twice a month. We cover a range of topics from intro to advanced - for more information [**click here to see github repo with all our previous events**](https://github.com/R-LadiesMelbourne/Links-to-Events-Repos). For our upcoming events make sure you check out our [**Meetup page**](https://www.meetup.com/rladies-melbourne/). You can also view most of our event recordings at our [**Youtube channel**](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClC5yNEjMoE3MmbK-mrV8Ow).

## Join our community

Follow us and join our vibrant online community on Twitter [**\@RLadiesMelb**](https://twitter.com/RLadiesMelb) to stay up-to-date with our events and activities. We are always on the look out for speakers so do get in touch if you are interested!

See you at our next meet-up 💜