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17-10-2018
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First meetup of the Dutch Research Software Engineering community

Submitter: Yan Grange
Description: Earlier this year, the initiative was taken to organise the Dutch Research Software Engineer (RSE) community, inspired by the British and German RSE initiative. On 20 september, the first meetup was organised in Utrecht at the Jaarbeurs Innovation Mile.

The concept of RSE is broadly defined as any person writing software to be used in science, including but not limited to PhDs and postdocs writing software packages, software developers at universities, and independent developers working in the academic field. The goal of the meetup was bring together members of the Duth RSE community and identify what topics are important and of common interest to the Dutch RSE field.

The full ASTRON Science Data Group (both members! Try to find them in the picture) was present at the meeting. The keynote speech was given by one of the initiators of the UK-RSE movement, Ilian Todorov. The rest of the meeting consisted of discussions about what the Dutch RSE community should focus on.

We look forward to what this movement could achieve in improving the quality and recognition of software in the Dutch academic community. If you want to keep posted on this topic, consider joining the mailing list here.
Copyright: nl-RSE
 
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