Champions Program
Learn and teach open source, in community
The rOpenSci Champions Program trains people from historically underrepresented communities to develop research software in R and share it with their communities. All material is free and open.
Mentoring + project development
Gallery of results
R packages created or reviewed, and outreach activities by champions.


The program in numbers
- Champions
- 38
- Mentors
- 33
- Projects
- 15
- Outreach activities
- 18
- Cohorts
- 4
Community
Meet the participants
The people of the program with their role (champion, mentor, instructor), their cohort, their projects and their outreach activities.
See participants →Everything is open
Want to run your own program?
We share how we organize the champions program so that other communities can reuse it.
See the organization guide →




