Building Software, Building Community: Lessons from the rOpenSci Project

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

[Carl Boettiger]({{site.baseurl}}/team/#boettiger_carl), [Scott Chamberlain]({{site.baseurl}}/team/#chamberlain_s), [Ted Hart]({{site.baseurl}}/team/#hart_t), and [Karthik Ram]({{site.baseurl}}/team/#ram_k) have just published a paper titled "[Building Software, Building Community: Lessons from the rOpenSci Project](http://openresearchsoftware.metajnl.com/articles/10.5334/jors.bu/)", in which they describe what they've learned by growing the [rOpenSci](http://ropensci.org/) project There are a lot of great ideas here that other groups could borrow, and of course you can keep up with their news by [following their blog](http://ropensci.org/blog/).