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+# Welcome to the R Contributor Office Hour (EMEA/APAC)! 
+
+## Useful links 
+
+ * R Development Guide: https://contributor.r-project.org/rdevguide/ 
+ * R's Bugzilla: https://bugs.r-project.org 
+ * R Project Weblate server: https://translate.rx.studio/projects/r-project 
+ * R sources - SVN repo: https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/ 
+ * GitHub mirror: https://github.com/r-devel/r-svn/ 
+ * GitHub Codespace (R Dev Container) https://github.com/r-devel/r-dev-env 
+ * R-devel mailing list archives: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/, searchable GitHub repo: https://github.com/MichaelChirico/r-mailing-list-archive/tree/master/r-devel 
+ * Minutes from previous office hours: https://github.com/r-devel/rcontribution/tree/main/office_hours 
+
+## Keeping in contact 
+
+ * Twitter: https://twitter.com/R_Contributors
+ * Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@R_Contributors
+ * Slack: https://contributor.r-project.org/slack 
+
+## Warm up 
+
+Please tell us a bit about yourself, following the template below: 
+
+Name: Heather Turner   
+Country I am currently in: UK   
+Something we could do or discuss together today: Bug spreadsheet, C bookclub
+    
+Name: Ella Kaye   
+Country I am currently in: UK  
+Something we could do or discuss together today: Nothing in particular
+
+Name: Hanne Oberman  
+Country I am currently in: Netherlands  
+Something we could do or discuss together today: Slack archive?
+
+Name:  Yann Say  
+Country I am currently in: Switzerland  
+Something we could do or discuss together today: I just came to see if and how I could contribute and just being curious.
+
+## Discussion
+
+## R Contributors Slack (https://contributor.r-project.org/slack)
+
+- Slack only shows 90 days of history. Could we have an archive? Yes, the admins can download the archive and we could put this in a private repo on GitHub for people to refer to. So this is a short-term solution. Longer solution may be to move to something like Matrix - this is open source and we'd have full control over archive - bring up at next R Contribution Working Group meeting.
+
+## C book club
+
+ - Earlier ran a book club based on Modern C: https://contributor.r-project.org/events/book-club/
+ - Put a few options in #book-club-modern-c
+
+    - Spread out material over longer period (13 fortnightly sessions rather than 8)
+
+    - Do the C sessions of CS50, Harvard's Introduction to Compute Science (https://cs50.harvard.edu/x/2023/). 1 session a month.
+
+    - Has a lot of advantages in well-prepared material and GitHub Codespace. More flexible to keep up with.
+
+    - Hanne found this good preparation for R Project Sprint
+
+    - Wild card option: the R Dev Guide (https://contributor.r-project.org/rdevguide/)
+
+    - Hanne would have would this more helpful as preparation for sprint.
+
+    - Could help develop dev guide itself
+
+    Could be something of a cross between a book-group and a working group to improve the dev guide
+
+    - Possibly add session and chapter on R's C API.
+
+
+## Bug spreadsheet
+
+- Annotated list of bugs: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bhfPIJQXeKpydigMH79FKIkdHO9NxlBSB_bTRoCFnPY/edit#gid=0
+
+    - Would be good to go over some of these in a future R Contribution Office Hour