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slug: tdd-2025
title: Tidyverse developer day 2025
date: 2025-06-24
author: Max Kuhn
description: >
Join us in Atlanta for tidyverse developer day on September 19, 2025!

photo:
author: George Stagg

# one of: "deep-dive", "learn", "package", "programming", "roundup", or "other"
categories: [other]
tags: [tidyverse-dev-day]
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The 2025 Tidy Dev Day will be on September 19th! We'll gather after posit::conf at the TODO from TODO to TODO.
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The 2025 Tidy Dev Day will be on September 19th! We'll gather after posit::conf at the TODO from TODO to TODO.
The 2025 Tidy Dev Day will be on September 19th! We'll gather after posit::conf at the [event center](https://cas.gsu.edu/eventcenter) of the College of Arts & Sciences of Georgia State University from 9am to 4pm.

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Communication is really slow and there were lots of back and forth to clear things up unfortunately. I reached out to them again to get the contract signed.

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Contract still not ready but they've confirmed our spot is secured!


Tidy Dev Day is an event where developers and open source contributors meet to collaboratively solve issues. You can hone your software engineering skills or work on your first contribution. We will have a slate of existing issues that you can work on with or without the assistance of our developers.

Here's how [Laura Acion](https://lacion.rbind.io/post/my-first-user/) described the 2019 event:

> I wish there were more of these R-related dev days. Developing events that are friendly, diverse, and safe to advance not only the tidyverse. I see no downsides. Kudos to the organizers.

Plus...

<div style="text-align: center">
<img src="GONG.jpg" alt="plot of chunk gong" width="70%" />
</div>

<br>

## Who should attend

You should attend if:
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I kind of admire the breezy tone here, but worry that if someone takes this at face value, they might show up effectively needing 1-on-1 help for the entire day. I think getting an R package dev environment set up in advance (or at least trying very hard to do so) is basically a pre-req. I would mention the Git/GitHub workshop that @mine-cetinkaya-rundel will run as recommended prep for folks who've never made a PR before.

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We can say something like: "Leading up to TDD, we will hold (optional) virtual "office hours" for TDD participants to help you with your Git workflow so that you can stroll into TDD confident that your R, Git, GitHub, and IDE are set up in the most ideal way possible to work in harmony on your laptop."


- You have a laptop.
- You have an interest in contributing to the tidyverse, r-lib, and/or tidymodels repositories.

You **don't** have to have any previous development background or experience solving issues or making pull requests. We'll help you select an appropriate task from our pool of issues and assist you in getting started with GitHub, forks, pull requests, etc. You just need to bring enthusiasm (and a laptop helps too). The tidy teams will be on hand to help out, answer your questions, or get you started.

## How to sign up

There is a $TODO cost for the day; we provide the venue, snacks, lunch, and a barista. If cost is an issue, please email TODO and we'll work that out. We only charge a small fee to encourage people to show up for the day.
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Historically I feel like we donated some or all of the funds? It certainly doesn't cover the cost of the event. As you say, it's to discourage folks from flaking out. If donation is the current plan, we could mention the target org here.

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I saw that in a previous post but I had not heard anything about this year. I'm happy to put something in if we have confirmation.

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Yeah, we don't donate any more. It goes into Posit's general funds to slightly offset the cost of the event.


Click TOTO to purchase a ticket.

[Previous Tidy Dev Days](https://www.tidyverse.org/tags/tidyverse-dev-day/) have sold out quickly, so don't wait!



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---
output: hugodown::hugo_document

slug: tdd-2025
title: Tidyverse developer day 2025
date: 2025-06-24
author: Max Kuhn
description: >
Join us in Atlanta for tidyverse developer day on September 19, 2025!

photo:
author: George Stagg

# one of: "deep-dive", "learn", "package", "programming", "roundup", or "other"
categories: [other]
tags: [tidyverse-dev-day]
---

<!--
TODO:
* [ ] Look over / edit the post's title in the yaml
* [ ] Edit (or delete) the description; note this appears in the Twitter card
* [ ] Pick category and tags (see existing with `hugodown::tidy_show_meta()`)
* [ ] Find photo & update yaml metadata
* [ ] Create `thumbnail-sq.jpg`; height and width should be equal
* [ ] Create `thumbnail-wd.jpg`; width should be >5x height
* [ ] `hugodown::use_tidy_thumbnails()`
* [ ] Add intro sentence, e.g. the standard tagline for the package
* [ ] `usethis::use_tidy_thanks()`
-->

The 2025 Tidy Dev Day will be on September 19th! We'll gather after posit::conf at the TODO from TODO to TODO.

Tidy Dev Day is an event where developers and open source contributors meet to collaboratively solve issues. You can hone your software engineering skills or work on your first contribution. We will have a slate of existing issues that you can work on with or without the assistance of our developers.

Here's how [Laura Acion](https://lacion.rbind.io/post/my-first-user/) described the 2019 event:

> I wish there were more of these R-related dev days. Developing events that are friendly, diverse, and safe to advance not only the tidyverse. I see no downsides. Kuddos to the organizers.

Plus...

<div style="text-align: center">
<img src="GONG.jpg" alt="plot of chunk gong" width="70%" />
</div>

<br>

## Who should attend

You should attend if:

- You have a laptop.
- You have an interest in contributing to the tidyverse, r-lib, and/or tidymodels repositories.

You **don't** have to have any previous development background or experience solving issues or making pull requests. We'll help you select an appropriate task from our pool of issues and assist you in getting started with GitHub, forks, pull requests, etc. You just need to bring enthusiasm (and a laptop helps too). The tidy teams will be on hand to help out, answer your questions, or get you started.

## How to sign up

There is a $TODO cost for the day; we provide the venue, snacks, lunch, and a barista. If cost is an issue, please email TODO and we'll work that out. We only charge a small fee to encourage people to show up for the day.

Click TOTO to purchase a ticket.

[Previous Tidy Dev Days](https://www.tidyverse.org/tags/tidyverse-dev-day/) have sold out quickly, so don't wait!



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