R Consortium today has posted a blog post in light of it's sponsorship of R/Finance 2018, along with it's announcement the creation of a new ISC working group. 

The goal of the R Community Diversity and Inclusion Working Group (RCDI-WG) is to broadly consider how the R Consortium can best encourage and support diverse and inclusion. The short-term priority is to define and publicise on best practices for R community events, and ensure that events funded by the R consortium adhere to those guidelines. In the long term, the RCDI-WG will think about how diversity and inclusion can we woven throughout all R consortium activities.

You can read more about this and learn how to participate at https://www.r-consortium.org/announcement/2018/06/07/on-conduct-and-diversity-in-the-r-community

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ANNOUNCEMENT: @RConsortium creates a new working group with participation from @RLadiesGlobal, @R_Forwards, and #rstats conferences to build community wide #diversity and #conduct guidelines http://bit.ly/2HtDycg

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With the goal of broadly considering how the #rstats community can best encourage and support diverse and inclusion, @RConsortium today announces "R Community Diversity and Inclusion Working Group (RCDI-WG)" http://bit.ly/2HtDycg

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