It’s that time of the month again for a round-up of everything nutriverse in February 2026.
nutriverse Launch event
We had a great launch event on 27th of February 2026. Thank you to all of you who have come to listen to what nutriverse is all about. We have made the slide deck to the launch presentation available to everyone. The link to the recording of the event has been sent by email to those who have registered and have signified that they would like to have access to the recording of the event afterwards.
Executive Director and Director of Community announced
We announced Abdoul-Aziz Goza as our first ever Executive Director and Emmanuel Mandalazi as our Director of Community. It’s been great to begin to create these institutional structures within nutriverse as we launch and transition into this new phase of the project. We look forward to Aziz and Emmanuel’s leadership as we aim towards improving our suite of open source software and more importantly to cultivating the community of practice around these tools!
{sleacr} package now on CRAN
Our {sleacr} package is now out on CRAN! {sleacr} is an R package for Simplified Lot Quality Assurance Sampling Evaluation of Access and Coverage (SLEAC). To read more about the package and how to use it from the dedicated package website.
First Community Call
We are having our first Community Call on the 18th of March 2026! We are theming each of the quarterly calls based on a term and concept used for “community” in the various countries represented in the nutriverse community. Our first Community Call, entitled “Tawag sa Katilingban/A Call to Community” builds on the concept of katilingban, a term for community from the Bisaya or Cebuano language spoken in many areas in the Visayas and Mindanao regions of the Philippines.
Final words
Thanks for taking the time to read our updates for February 2026.
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