Working Groups Updates – pharmaverse blog

Hi community,

We wanted to share with you an update from council discussions around our pharmaverse working groups. Up until now, these have been the decision-holders of which packages are included/excluded from the pharmaverse. Although open for all to join, they ended up being quite lean and likely not representative of the true depth of this community. So we’ve decided to open up the package decisions to our full community in future via our Slack workspace, to make for a more inclusive community where everyone has a voice. This is now updated on our website – see the FAQ section on the homepage.

We don’t want to be overly prescriptive with how this process will work as it might evolve over time, but we’ll be openly sharing any future package applications to pharmaverse via our Slack and we welcome your input to help make the call on which to accept/decline. Any individual from our community could express support via a thumbs up on the GitHub issue or add a comment with any concerns. If the requestor is unable to resolve any concerns, then ultimately any contentious applications will be raised to the pharmaverse council to adjudicate. The final decision and rationale will then always be documented on the issue.

Moving forwards, instead of working groups we will maintain some sub-communities for particular connected networks such as our package maintainers, or those teams powering pharmaverse-specifics such as our blog and website. Additionally, for any wider open source industry challenges we would recommend any would-be contributors towards PHUSE DVOST, given our strong and continued partnership with PHUSE.

Note that the above does not impact the role of the pharmaverse council - all our accountabilities are still explained here. Now only we delegate the responsibility for “curation” of pharmaverse packages to our entire community.

On behalf of the pharmaverse council

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2024-11-15 19:40:23.962094

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@online{council2024,
  author = {council, pharmaverse},
  title = {Working {Groups} {Updates}},
  date = {2024-07-24},
  url = {https://pharmaverse.github.io/blog/posts/2024-07-24_working__groups_.../working__groups__updates.html},
  langid = {en}
}

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council, pharmaverse. 2024. “Working Groups Updates.” July 24, 2024. https://pharmaverse.github.io/blog/posts/2024-07-24_working__groups_.../working__groups__updates.html.