Events

Past Events

First Online Event

The event took place online in Zoom on 12.05.2025.

This was the inaugural event of the community in Bern. The speakers were Uwe Schmitt (ETH), Tarun Chadha (ETH). They showed the development of the RSE community movement worldwide and in Switzerland in particular, explained its objectives and presented their vision and the way it is organised at the ETH Zurich.

There was a poll after the presentations from the speakers, and it showed the following results. The participants were from a variety of departments: DSL, DH, TPF, PSY and many others. The audience had experience not only in the major programming languages (like Python,  JavaScript, R and C) but also in a lot of others, even some lesser known ones. There were almost twice as more people, whose job is mostly programming as opposed to those who are mostly conducting research. The programming experience of the vast majority of the participants, who voted, was more than 3 years. Altogether, the event brought together a truly diverse group of people - from different disciplines, roles, and levels of experience - showing the broad appeal and interdisciplinary nature of Research Software Engineering.

An important part of the meeting was to gather the opinions of what people want to see in the future in the community. The most popular ideas were Workshops and Presentations of software tools followed by the Higher gender diversity topic, Regular informal meeting, Forum/chat for quick communication, Data and software reuse, Software validation, RSE career and others.