diff --git a/content/about-us/history/index.en.md b/content/about-us/history/index.en.md index ef5d30bb7..663628343 100644 --- a/content/about-us/history/index.en.md +++ b/content/about-us/history/index.en.md @@ -5,12 +5,12 @@ title: "History" [Gabriela de Queiroz](https://rladies.org/united-states-rladies/name/gabriela-de-queiroz/) founded R-Ladies on October 1, 2012. She wanted to give back to the community after going to several meetups and learning a lot for free. -The first meetup was placed in San Francisco, California (United States). -In the following years two more R-Ladies chapters started around the globe: Twin Cities and Taipei. +The first meetup was held in San Francisco, California (United States). +In the following years, two more R-Ladies chapters started around the globe: Twin Cities and Taipei. R-Ladies London was the fourth chapter, which launched in March 2016. Although each chapter started working independently, the need for high-level coordination and support became evident at useR! 2016 where the San Francisco and London chapters met. -After some initial brainstorming during the useR! 2016 conference, Gabriela de Queiroz and Erin LeDell from R-Ladies San Francisco and Chiin-Rui Tan, Alice Daish, Hannah Frick, Rachel Kirkham and Claudia Vitolo from R-Ladies London as well as Heather Turner teamed up to apply for an R-Consortium [grant to support and encourage the global expansion of the R-Ladies organisation](https://github.com/rladies/global/blob/master/rconsortium/FINAL%20-%20201607-%20rconsortiumproposalr-ladiesalignmentandglobalexpansion-july2016.pdf). -R-Ladies Global was born and the grant was awarded in September 2016. -Since then R-Ladies has grown to [138 chapters in 44 countries and 39000 members](https://gqueiroz.shinyapps.io/rshinylady/), thanks to our amazing organisers and R-Ladies who helped build and maintain our official website ([rladies.org](https://rladies.org/)), engage with the larger community via social media ([\@RLadiesGlobal](https://twitter.com/rladiesglobal)) and help each-other every day in millions of different ways. +After some initial brainstorming during the useR! 2016 conference, Gabriela de Queiroz and Erin LeDell from R-Ladies San Francisco and Chiin-Rui Tan, Alice Daish, Hannah Frick, Rachel Kirkham, and Claudia Vitolo from R-Ladies London, as well as Heather Turner, teamed up to apply for an R-Consortium [grant to support and encourage the global expansion of the R-Ladies organisation](https://github.com/rladies/global/blob/master/rconsortium/FINAL%20-%20201607-%20rconsortiumproposalr-ladiesalignmentandglobalexpansion-july2016.pdf). +R-Ladies Global was born, and the grant was awarded in September 2016. +Since then R-Ladies has grown to [200+ chapters across 60+ countries with 100,000+ members](https://benubah.github.io/r-community-explorer/rladies.html), thanks to our amazing organisers and R-Ladies who helped build and maintain our official website ([rladies.org](https://rladies.org/)), engage with the larger community via social media ([\@RLadiesGlobal](https://twitter.com/rladiesglobal)) and help each-other every day in millions of different ways.