Thanksgiving is celebrated in many parts of the world. The USA, rOpenSci’s official location, celebrates Thanksgiving this Thursday, 28th November. Giving thanks to contributors is also an important part of open-source software development. Many open-source software projects use the allcontributors.org system to acknowledge contributions, which includes a bot to automate the tedious stuff for adding project contributors, so you can focus on your project instead of managing your ReadMe. One strong motivation for …