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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.

December Lightning Talks

November 28, 2024

Thanks for all the persons present for the December Lightning Talks! It was as always great fun with good discussions.

• Son Pham-Ba - Local “AI” generated images
• Valérian Rousset - CDD/CDI workgroup return
• Ahmed Elghareeb - Environmental Impact of AI and its supply chain

And a picture at the end:

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.

October Lightning Talks

October 2, 2024

It was a pleasure meeting you all for the lightning talks! Thanks for the presentators and the public for the questions. We had the following talks:

• Carine Dengler: Local LLMs for fun, profit and nonsense
• Nicolas Richart: Spack - a package manager for HPC that can be use on any machine
• Uwe Schmitt (ETHZ): pytest-regtest - a pytest plugin for snapshot testing

In addition, we also discussed new projects for the RSEs at EPFL and beyond. Here is a non-binding list of ideas we had:

"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.