Meetup: 28 May 2025: Creating simple websites with Quarto + GitHub Pages

Event
Quarto
Workshop
GitHub Pages
Author

Kathleen Zeglinski

Published

May 28, 2025

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Time: Wed, May 28, 2024

5:30 PM to 7:30 PM AEST

Location: DiUS (3/31 Queen Street, Melbourne) and Online (Zoom)

About the Event

Want to build your own website in minutes? Join us to learn how to create a simple, stylish website using Quarto, and publish it for free with GitHub Pages! 🌐✨ Perfect for portfolios, blogs, or project pages β€” no experience needed. You could make something like the RLadies Melbourne website or WEHI’s intro to R coursebook!

πŸ“ Workshop details: πŸ“… 28th of May πŸ•’ 5:30-6:00pm (in-person networking & refreshments) πŸ•’ 6:00pm-7:30pm (hybrid workshop) πŸ“ DiUS 3/31 Queen St, Melbourne VIC 3000 or Online (zoom link posted on the day)

πŸ›  Before the workshop: βœ… Install RStudio or R + Quarto CLI βœ… Create a GitHub account (if you don’t have one yet) βœ… Bring your laptop and curiosity β€” we’ll handle the rest!

Speakers: Danyang Dai & Kathleen Zeglinski

Danyang Dai (Daidai) is a third-year PhD candidate at the Queensland Digital Health Centre (QDHeC) at The University of Queensland. Her research focuses on advancing population health outcomes in the post-COVID-19 era. With a strong academic background in Econometrics and Biostatistics, Daidai is also a passionate advocate for the R programming language. She has actively contributed to the academic and professional communities through her involvement with organizations such as R-Ladies Melbourne and by creating educational resources for R programming.

Kathleen is a postdoc at WEHI, focusing on antibody bioinformatics and long-read sequencing. She is particularly interested in developing software pipelines to empower biologists to analyse their own data. Kathleen is also a co-convenor of the WEHI R course and passionate about R education.

We look forward to seeing you there!

πŸ’œ Kathleen on behalf of R-Ladies Melbourne

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