Issue 2025-W05 Highlights

Ready to bring your next presentation slides to the world of Quarto? Our first highlight has a batch of power tips you can use for your next slide deck. Plus terrific insights from first-time contributors to open-source software.Episode Links

• This week's curator: Jon Calder - @jonmcalder@fosstodon.org (Mastodon) & @jonmcalder (X/Twitter)
• Seven tips for creating Quarto revealjs presentations
• From Novice to Contributor: Making and Supporting First-Time Contributions to FOSS
• Entire issue available at rweekly.org/2025-W05

Supplement Resources

• Emil Hvitfeldt's blog https://emilhvitfeldt.com
• GitHub Desktop https://github.com/apps/desktop
• GitKraken https://www.gitkraken.com/
• lazygit https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit
• Coworking mini-hackathons https://ropensci.org/blog/2025/01/24/coworking-hackathons/
• ShinyConf 2025 https://www.shinyconf.com
• Posit::Conf 2025 https://posit.co/conference/

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