Potential project?

Dear Yihui,

apologies for not having fully RTFMed your page at https://yihui.org/en/about/#contact-me 😬 I also sent you messages via LinkedIn and Mastodon 😬

And, first: THANK YOU for {knitr}, {rmarkdown}, {bookdown}, {blogdown}, and the whole cosmos of awesome tools you gifted to humanity! 🙏🙏🙏

I was looking at your Sponsoring page, and I realized there might be a win-win type of opportunity here 🤩 (i.e. no danger, just opportunity 😬)

Szilvia Zorgo and me recently got a grant to, among other things, commission a small R package, {qualchemy}. It would basically import and export files in a specific XML standard. These are files for qualitative research, in the REFI-QDA format. The aim is to 'free' qualitative research projects (we develop the Reproducible Open Coding Kit, the ROCK, a standard for qualitative research in the Markdown and YAML spirit, i.e. both human- and machine-readable). Would that seem like something that's fun and worthwhile of your time?

(You can contact me here in this discussion, I'll keep the tab open. But I don't use GitHub much (in favour of open source alternatives, GitLab and CodeBerg), so if I accidentily close this tab, you could resort to @matherion@mastodon.nl 😬)