For info: Inaugural Edinburgh Research Software Engineers (RSE) Meeting

[Donald Dunbar]

Passing this on to the group for info....

Cheers,

Donald

Inaugural Edinburgh Research Software Engineers (RSE) Meeting
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Date and Time: 1-3pm, Wed 26th September.
Venue: Room G.03, Bayes Centre, 47 Potterrow,
        Edinburgh, EH8 9BT.

This first meeting will be to establish an Edinburgh RSE community
serving the local area. We want to determine the interests of
this community and where a local RSE organisation can provide the most 
benefit to people in the Edinburgh area. Our aim is that Edinburgh RSE 
will become a community led organisation, serving the needs of local 
people working in the RSE domain.

An outline plan for the meeting is:

13:00   Welcome
13:15   Research Software Engineers - Who / What / Why
13:30   Edinburgh RSE Community Bootstrap
14:00   Coffee / Cake / Networking
14:15   Bootstrap Outputs, Actions, Volunteers
14:45   Wrap up & Thanks
15:00   Close & Tidy up

Although we hope as many people as possible will stay for the full 
duration of the event, we realise that people are very busy and, as 
such, there is a natural break in the schedule at 2pm for those who 
cannot stay for the whole time. Even if you can only make it for the 
first half of the event, we hope you can make it along.

To get an idea of numbers we would ask you to please register
an interests at:

https://www.events.ed.ac.uk/index.cfm?event=showEventDetails&scheduleId=31809&start=51

What is an RSE?

Research Software Engineers are people in a variety of roles who 
understand and care about both good software and good research. It is 
an inclusive definition that covers a wide spectrum of people from a 
researcher who is primarily focused on getting results for papers but 
does a lot of programming programming to a  software engineer who just 
happens to work for a research organisation.

Over the last three years the Research Software Engineer (RSE)
community (https://rse.ac.uk) has been gaining traction throughout the 
UK and further afield. The RSE movement recognises that software plays 
a fundamental role in today's research and yet RSEs, the people whose 
main interest lies in developing the code that underpins much of this 
research, are not always appreciated or rewarded. The RSE movement is 
trying to rectify this amongst other things - see their web page for 
more details.

We hope to see many of you on the day.

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