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+title = "Champions Program" 
+description = "A mentoring & training program for Scientific Open Source Champions" 
+tags = ["champions"] 
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+Research software *should serve everyone in our communities*, which means it needs to be *sustainable, open, and built by and for all groups*.
+Currently, however, there is a dismaying lack of diversity in open source communities in general and the R / research software community in particular.
+Developers in the R community are overwhelmingly white, male, and from a handful of countries.
+That disappointing lack of diversity is potentially detrimental to the sustainability, utility and productivity of projects.
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+The *rOpenSci Champions Program* is for **people from historically and systematically excluded groups** who are interested in contributing to rOpenSci and the broader open source and open science communities.
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+The rOpenSci Champion Program [is part of a series of activities and projects we are carrying out to ensure our research software serves everyone in our communities](/blog/2021/12/20/inclusive-leadership-program/) and is supported through a grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
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+The program is a 12-month-long program that includes onboarding, cohort-based training, one-on-one mentorship, cohort meetings, project development, outreach activities, assessment, and offboarding.
+After training, Champions develop their project.
+Projects may involve**building a new package or going through the peer review process as an author or a reviewer**.
+As the concluding activity of the training, champions choose at least one of several outreach options to perform, which include giving a presentation, writing a blog post, or organizing a peer group in their community.
+Some of our cohorts are language and geographic region-specific.
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