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Applying for RSE jobs: Panel discussion
This blog entry is a collaborative effort by members of the audience to consolidate their personal notes and impressions from the event on 15 October 2024 at ETH Zurich. For more details about the event, including a full list of panellists, please visit the more detailed event page .
October 26, 2024
"Hacking4Sciences" course from MTEC
Do any of the following statements sound familiar to you or someone you know? I have a non-computer science background. I want to incorporate programming into my approach to working with data. I want to be part of the open source ecosystem. If so, the lecture “Hacking for Sciences – An Applied Guide to Programming with Data” by Dr. Matthias Bannert from the Swiss Economic Institute (KOF) at MTEC-ETH might be the right fit for you.
September 19, 2024
"Basics of Computing Environments for Scientists" course from ISG DPHYS
Do any of the following statements sound familiar to you or someone you know? I have taken a Python course but am having problems with the setup or the correct way to install packages. I want to know how to use my computer’s command line efficiently. I’m interested in Python tools, e.g. for checking Python code. I’m not sure which editor or development environment to use for Python development. I’m interested in best practices to increase my productivity when working with Python. The lecture “Basics of Computing Environments for Scientists” from the IT Support group of the ETH Physics department covers these and many other topics that are often missing in many programming courses.
September 13, 2024
RSECon24 - The RSE Community conference 2024
The UK conference for the research software engineering community, RSECon24, was held in Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 3-5 September. The yearly conference is organised and run by a team of volunteers from the Society for Research Software Engineering RSESoc and is offered as a hybrid conference with 400 attendees onsite and around 80 online this year. The organisers aim to provide a relevant, inclusive and engaging conference experience for the RSE community, with a balanced and varied programme that caters for all roles and skill levels, celebrating achievements and showcasing impactful software in research.
September 12, 2024
Code Review Day on 28th of August
Dear RSE members, Have you ever had the feeling that you need way too much time to understand what your code does? Then I am happy to announce the next code review day on Wednesday 28th of August at the HIT building. We’ll be looking at your code and help you to improve it. Common topics so far were: writing unit and functional tests, a simple way to improve your code what data structures to use for which problem and many more Write me an email if you want to participate, marco.gaehler@gmx.ch. Most topics are also explained in my book available at https://github.com/gaehlerm/SoftwareEngineering and let me know if you have some feedback on my book.
July 27, 2024
RSE book club
Hi everyone, I’m Marco and would like to organise a book club for the RSE community. The idea is to meet every two weeks to discuss a chapter from my book about Software Engineering.
June 4, 2024
Schedule Meetup on 4th of June 2024
We published the detailed schedule for the next meetup in our events section.
May 19, 2024
Schedule Meetup on 24th of April 2024
We published the detailed schedule for the next meetup in our events section.
April 16, 2024
Resume of 2nd RSE@ETHZ event
Our RSE community continues to grow and evolve. The recent establishment of working groups and a series of lightning talks highlighted the diverse interests and expertise within our ranks.
March 27, 2024
We need your help: Call for contributions to working groups!
Based on the group discussions at the first meeting in February, we decided to initiate working groups.
March 26, 2024
New Matrix space for RSE activities in Switzerland
Together with our colleagues from EPFL we decided to create a new Matrix space #rse-ch:matrix.org to host all current and future RSE activities within Switzerland. The rooms from the previous space still exist, but are now also registered within the new space.
March 20, 2024
The website is ready for community contributions!
We migrated the previous version of the website (which was a bunch of HTML files + some CSS) to HUGO for managing and rendering the content from Markdown to HTML. The new setup allows integration of community contributions, such as blog posts using merge requests.
March 17, 2024