Can you think of an rOpenSci community member that you’d like to thank? A reviewer who helped you improve your package? Someone who answered your question? A community call speaker from whom you gained insight? Someone who encouraged you behind the scenes?

The rOpenSci project is 100% supported by grants and donations. If you’re giving this season, please consider donating to rOpenSci. Your donations allow us to support internships, contractors, web services, and community events. We foster a culture that values open and reproducible research using shared data and reusable software.

In a year where it has been hard to pay attention to anything not critical to our day-to-day lives, you have continued to share your time, expertise, enthusiasm, and willingness to try things with us. Our staff of developers, researchers, and community builders work to create technical and social infrastructure to lower barriers to working with research data, and you, our community, continually help us push farther.

We mean it. On behalf of rOpenSci, thank you to everyone who has contributed their creativity, curiosity, smarts, and time in the last year. We are fortunate to have paid staff who work to build technical and social infrastructure to lower barriers to working with research data. But it is our community, built on trust, that binds us together and helps us see who we are working for.