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Call for funding RSE Ambassadors

February 21, 2025

Dear all,

we are pleased to announce that the EnhanceR association offers funding for RSE ambassadors from academic/research institutions for one year:

• Institutions which are members of the EnhanceR association with 10,000 CHF,
• Institutions which are not EnhanceR members with 5,000 CHF.

Community voting results for the domain name of a Swiss-wide RSE website

February 20, 2025

The results are in, and the winner (🥁🥁🥁🥁) is rse.swiss!

Together with EnhanceR we will now apply for the domain name rse.swiss. The process is a bit complicated (see here) and and if our application does not go through, we would proceed with the second place winner rse-ch.org.

Applying for RSE jobs: Panel discussion

October 26, 2024

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 .

The impressions below are therefore based on the discussions within the panel and with the audience and may be different for other employers. Nevertheless, the panel agreed on most of the points below.

"Hacking4Sciences" course from MTEC

September 19, 2024

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.

"Basics of Computing Environments for Scientists" course from ISG DPHYS

September 13, 2024

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.

RSECon24 - The RSE Community conference 2024

September 12, 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.