In June 2022 I (Yani) become the rOpenSci Community Manager. To do a good job in this kind of role it is essential to know your community, so as soon I started I dug in: reading our documentation, learning our processes and their metrics, and conducting interviews with team-mates and community members. In my previous experience working with scientific and technological communities of practice, in collaboration with Sandro, I had used a tool called Social Network Analysis to understand the interaction of the members and plan strategies around the …