Macavity

CW21 - 2021-03-30 Macavity - CI13-CW21 Participants Louise Chisholm Malin Sandstrom (chair?) Florian Mannseicher Emma Karoune (scribe) Andrew Brown (scribe) IDEAS: Skills Wheel for RSEs Ideas: Community management How to be an RSE: define the professional identity, especially for young people starting out _Training materials portal: practices, tools, languages etc. _ Carpentries address skills, this portal could address the (professional?) framework Skills wheel Different ways into RSE: direct training, researchers who incorporate RSE practices etc....

3 min · 502 words · Louise Chisholm, Malin Sandstrom, Florian Mannseicher, Emma Karoune, Andrew Brown

RESPIRATOR (Research Software Performance Indicators Really Acknowledging The Objective Reality)

CW22 - 2022-04-04 Hack Day Idea proposer Stephan Druskat Hack Day Idea title (provisional) RESPIRATOR (Research Software Performance Indicators Really Acknowledging The Objective Reality) - Breathing life into key performance indicators for research software engineering work that evaluators can understand Context and/or research domain This applies to all domains, institutions, managers, funders, etc. who still rely on outdated metrics and KPIs that don’t reflect the reality of computer-based research. Problem The Objective Reality is that research software plays a crucial role in research today....

4 min · 667 words · Stephan Druskat
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RSE2_D2

CW20 - 2020-03-31 to 2020-04-02 RSE2_D2 - CI10-CW20 Participants Yo Yehudi - Software dev and EngD student (Cambridge and Manchester) David Perez-Suarez - RSE at UCL Blair Archibald - 2017 fellow, Postdoc Glasgow (soft spot for Haskell) Marion Weinzierl - RSE at Durham University, Not a fellow… yet! Vahid Garousi - Belfast Context / Research Domain A long time ago, in an office far, far away, RSEs and researchers were developing software and may not be aware of all the good practices and are in need of a bit of motivation....

5 min · 940 words · Yo Yehudi, David Pérez-Suárez, Blair Archibald, Marion Weinzierl, Vahid Garousi

The Code Review Cupid

CW22 - 2022-04-04 **Collaborative Ideas session group: The **Code Review Cupid (H-Heather) [from the clipart library] Participants Sherman Lo / RSE, Queen Mary, University of London/ London / s.lo@qmul.ac.uk / Twitter @shermanlo77 / Github @shermanlo77 Matthew Alexandrakis, RSE Queen Mary University of London, m.alexandrakis@qmul.ac.uk Dmitry Nikolaenko, RSE / Durham University, dmitry.nikolaenko@durham.ac.uk Felicity Anderson, EPCC PhD Researcher, University of Edinburgh, Felicity.Anderson@ed.ac.uk Matthew Bluteau, RSE at UK Atomic Energy Authority, matthew.bluteau@ukaea.uk Mario Antonioletti, EPCC/SSI University of Edinburgh, mario@epcc....

4 min · 776 words · Sherman Lo, Matthew Alexandrakis, Dmitry Nikolaenko, Felicity Anderson, Matthew Bluteau, Mario Antonioletti