RStudio: 2022 and Beyond

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Company claims a sustainable model funding open source scientific software by running a virtuous cycle: free packages feed commercial products that fund more OSS. About 43 full time open source engineers now, ~250 people total, with plans for 143 then 200–300 open source staff. Products become Posit Workbench Connect Package Manager, R Markdown evolves into Quarto as a multilingual publishing system, IDEs and servers already support R Python Jupyter and VS Code and deployment for Shiny Dash Streamlit.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 5:32Corporate charter
3. 6:17Incentive structures
4. 7:46Scale of effort
5. 8:46Virtuous cycle
6. 19:00For our pro products?
7. 19:30For open source?

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