📢 In this week’s issue 📢

• It’s May and you know what that means? It’s Maintainer Month, and GitHub is kicking off the celebration!

• Every wondered why or how people use R the programming language? We’ve got you covered.

• Generative AI is the buzziest thing on the block right now, find out what some leaders in the consulting world have to say about the new technology that might mean a potential reduction in the amount of developers need to complete certain tasks and projects.

⚡️ Featured Open-Source Project of the Week ⚡️

Piperoni

Piperoni is an GUI built for the ProcessPiper package, another open-source project that allows you to build business process diagrams using either Python or plain text!

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🗒️ Open-Source Issues for First Timers 🗒️

- Allow sidebar to be resized

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Language: Ruby/HTML

- [FEATURE]: Create a new route for branches

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Language: Typescript/Javascript

- Bug: Using the refresh button on a disconnected network share causes Files to freeze

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Language: C#/C++

As always, you can always find repositories in need of help at goodfirstissue.io

✍️ Open-Source Community News and Stories ✍️

Gearing up for Maintainer Month this May!

GitHub is recognizing Maintainer Month, a month-long celebration and recognition of open-source maintainers and contributors from all over the world. They’ve opened up applications for folks who’d like to host maintainer month events so that their event can be featured on Github, and are encouraging folks to sponsor open source projects through their platform. They’re also hosting various online workshops aimed at maintainers, check it out!

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R tutorials: Learn R programming for data science

Ever wondered what you could really do with the R programming language? Turns out you can do a whole heck of a lot, this article outlines some great (yet short and to the point) tutorials covering different tasks you can achieve with R.

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Generative AI means more productivity, and a likely retrenchment for software developers

There’s a bit of doomsayer’ing in terms of developer’s careers being at stake when it comes to generative AI, but personally I think in the short and medium term it’ll be a wonderful tool to the developers that leverage it to code more efficiently. The article lays out not only some thoughts about where generative AI might be going, but also some common applications of a co-pilot-like AI that can immediately provide you with a boost in productivity, like GitHub co-pilot.

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