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+title: "Weeknote for 2025-W11"
+description: "rOpenSci on DEIA, distributed Git, and fed news"
+date: 2025-03-11T08:59:00-07:00
+draft: false
+categories:
+- Weeknotes
+---
+
+## rOpenSci statement on DEIA
+
+A thing that drew me to switch to R as my primary programming language for data
+analysis 11 years ago was the community of R enthusiasts that I found
+online[^tidy]; people were friendly and inclusive, and the vibes---in
+general---were excellent. This statement from rOpenSci on Diversity, Equity,
+Inclusion, and Accessibility reminds me that this community is still out there
+using R.
+
+> If we fail to support each others’ human rights, we fail at why we do science
+> in the first place
+
+I endorse the entire statement.
+
+[Open Science and Open Source only with Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and
+Accessibility](https://doi.org/10.59350/8vw43-jy784)
+
+## Workflows for collaborating with Git
+
+This post about using Git in a distributed manner does a better job of
+illustrating the point I tried to make in an older post, [Git is a distributed
+version control system]({{< ref "/posts/git-distributed/" >}}). It's validating
+to see it come from a hacker no less venerable than Simon Tatham[^tatham]. It's
+interesting to see his disdain for `git-send-email`, [the preferred approach
+for Drew DeVault](https://drewdevault.com/2018/07/02/Email-driven-git.html)
+(creator of the anti-forge [SourceHut](https://sourcehut.org/)), but I read
+this as a matter of tool preference, and don't have strong opinions of my own
+here. I've collaborated with GitHub users via `git-request-pull`, and it's a
+great approach if you have a place to host your code.
+
+[Git without a
+forge](https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/git-no-forge/)
+
+## What's new in the federal government
+
+Late last week we finally learned that my union, the AFGE, has filed a
+grievance against my agency for the unilateral change its Trump-appointed
+leadership is making to remote and telework policies, in violation of our
+current contract. It feels naive to assume that the agency will change course
+or even that the courts will follow the law and require the government to honor
+its contract with us, but I'm glad the union is putting up a fight.
+
+Even more alarming than my agency's unfair labor practices is the news that the
+government intends to ignore entirely its contract with my fellow AFGE members
+in the TSA. I'll be watching how this develops. The linked opinion piece argues
+that TSA workers should engage in a wildcat strike; regardless of whether one
+agrees with this approach, it explains the stakes.
+
+[Strike, or Else](https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/strike-or-else)
+
+[^tidy]: Yes, the other was the Tidyverse.
+
+[^tatham]: Author of [PuTTY](https://www.putty.org/) and
+ [NASM](https://nasm.us/) among others!
