library(lubridate)
ymd_hms("2025-10-29 16:30:00") |>
with_tz("Europe/Vienna")
[1] "2025-10-29 17:30:00 CET"
Wednesday October 29th, 2025, 4:30pm UTC, Zoom
Get the time in your timezone, e.g.
[1] "2025-10-29 17:30:00 CET"
We hold online meetups, over Zoom. These will usually be on the last Wednesday of each month, at 4:30pm UK time (i.e. 3:30pm UTC in the summer, 4:30pm UTC in the winter).
Note that for the Winter 2025/26 series, we have moved the meet-ups 30 minutes later relative to UTC time than the Summer 2025 series. This largely has this has the effect of making the meet-ups 30 minutes earlier, once your country comes out of daylight savings time. In the UK and Europe, that holds for the whole series. Depending on when clocks change in your country, the October 2025 and/or March 2026 meet-ups might be 30 minutes later (this is the case, for example, for those in Pacific time).
We schedule the meet-ups as recurring Zoom meetings, with separate registration links for winter and summer series. The series switch when the clocks change in the UK. You only need to register once per series, and you’ll get a calendar invitation for all the meet-ups in that series (though of course no requirement to come to all of them!).
register for the winter series
Details will also be shared via Mastodon, Bluesky, LinkedIn and our newsletter1 in the run-up to each meet-up.
We usually promote meetups a couple of weeks before they take place. The best place to hear about them is on Mastodon, Bluesky, LinkedIn or via our mailing list, which you can opt in to when you join.
These are friendly, informal gatherings, to connect with fellow community members and chat (mostly about R).
Each meetup starts with a round of introductions, followed by any updates from the rainbowR team, e.g. discussing initiatives for the group, community organisation etc. The majority of the meetup is usually spent chatting about R. We invite participants to ‘show and tell’ – they can share something related to R or Quarto. It could be something they’re working on, or a resource/package they’ve found that they’re enjoying using. It’s also a chance to ask R-related questions – there’s probably someone on the call who can help! Of course, you don’t have to show something – there’s no pressure to do so!
We require registration in advance. This helps keep the meetup safe.
You can opt-in to the newsletter when you join the community.↩︎