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+# BiocCommits: Bioconductor centric hackathons
+
+Bioconductor is a mature, diverse, and well-maintained project that
+performs and facilitates research across a variety of medical and
+natural science fields. One of the strengths of the project over its
+history has been the Bioconductor community. These hackathon events are
+intended to bring that community together to tackle project-wide
+problems and opportunities, from simple bug fixes to maintenance of core
+packages, to construction and publication of new packages or workflows.
+
+## Who can contribute
+
+Participation is open to anyone with experience with Bioconductor
+software. Though many projects may be deeply technical, the most
+important qualities needed for participation are a willingness to learn
+and a commitment to being a good team player. New or early career
+contributors to Bioconductor are encouraged to participate in person or
+virtually.
+
+## How to contribute
+
+For BiocCommits events attached to conferences, in-person participation
+is encouraged, but not required. Virtual contributions are welcomed.
+Most contributions, particularly those to R packages will be expected to
+be R centric in terms of code actually written. However, some projects
+focusing on code infrastructure may require fluency in C, Fortran, or
+other lower level languages. Also, projects focusing on workflows or
+other themes may require fluency in bash, Docker, specific workflow
+languages, or 4GLs besides R.
+
+Bioconductor is a diverse and complex project with many ways to
+contribute.
+
+## Project types
+
+BiocCommits events will feature a small array of proposed or solicited
+project ideas, but participants are welcome to bring their own as long
+as they’ve been discussed with event organisers beforehand. Generally
+projects will fall into, but are not limited to, one of three general
+categories.
+
+### Micro Contributions
+
+General bug fixes and feature additions. These are contributions that
+can be bottled up into a single or a few github pull requests. If you’ve
+encountered a bug, aberrant behavior, or lack of a useful feature in a
+core or popular package that is accepting pull requests, these events
+can provide expertise or guidance for submitting those fixes or feature
+additions. These can be a great way for new contributors to learn about
+the internals of Bioconductor and R, good software development
+practices, version control and management, and team coding environments.
+Tangible outcomes from these contributions may be (but are not strictly)
+limited to tracked github activity.
+
+### General Contributions
+
+Package or workflow sized team projects. Complete a full and complex
+package or workflow across the entire event. These contributions will be
+great for ideas that require diverse scientific or technical
+backgrounds.
+
+### Major Contributions
+
+Complex and thoughtful contributions to existing or planned Bioconductor
+or R infrastructure. These will typically require considerable fluency
+with Bioconductor and R internals, C/C++, and good software development
+practices.
+
+## Expected outcomes
+
+There will be an emphasis on generating tangible and public work
+products from BiocCommits events. Functional and tested R packages and
+general workflows are ideal, though not required. Participants should be
+able to point to a professional and accessible github repository at the
+end of the event that can lead to further projects or collaborations,
+and serve as a clear resume line representing a work product.
+
+Project scope and goals will be discussed at the beginning of the event.
+
+## Planned BiocCommit events
+
+The first BioCommits event is currently planned to take place before
+EuroBioc2026 in Turku, Finland.
+
+## Products and Projects from previous BiocCommits events
+
+Coming soon!

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