---------- Subject: Nordic-RSE annual meeting Start: Thursday, 19 October 2023, 14:00 CEST Description: In the meeting we will briefly present the association activities and financial statements for 2023. The meeting is also to make important decisions regarding the association, such as deciding the size of the membership fee and selecting the board for 2023-2024. Agenda and connection details in hackmd . ---------- Subject: What Research Group Leaders Need to Know About Software Work Start: Tuesday, 15 November 2022, 13:00 CET Description: As a group leader, what do you need to know to get the most from your group's data and software? How do you get the most long-term benefit from the work your group does? location: https://aalto.zoom.us/s/62141049461 ---------- Subject: Nordic-RSE biweekly community meeting Start: Thursday, 08 September 2022, 14:00 CEST Location: https://aalto.zoom.us/j/62247607160?pwd=dU1KdFFmOWZrNkk4U1c1RHpzYnU2Zz09 Description: agenda and contact information on hackmd: https://hackmd.io/@nordic-rse/biweekly/edit ---------- Subject: Nordic-RSE biweekly community meeting Start: Thursday, 02 February 2023, 14:00 CET Location: https://aalto.zoom.us/j/62247607160?pwd=dU1KdFFmOWZrNkk4U1c1RHpzYnU2Zz09 Description: agenda and contact information on hackmd: https://hackmd.io/@nordic-rse/biweekly/edit ---------- Subject: RSE coffee break Start: Thursday, 08 September 2022, 09:00 CEST Location: https://aalto.zoom.us/j/62426845282 (Zoom ID 624 2684 5282) Description: Weekly virtual coffee break: The RSE Finland group invites all interested in research software engineering to the weekly online coffee break at 10:00 (Europe/Helsinki) every Thursday. The coffee break is an informal meeting, open for everyone to discuss with and listen to others interested in research software engineering. We currently have no pre-decided topics, but never run out of things to say. Zoom Link: https://aalto.zoom.us/j/62426845282 (Zoom ID 624 2684 5282) Website: https://nordic-rse.org/communities/finland/#weekly-virtual-coffee-break HackMD: https://hackmd.io/@nordic-rse/coffeebreak ---------- Subject: Nordic-RSE annual meeting Start: Thursday, 20 October 2022, 14:00 CEST Location: see hackmd Description: In the meeting we will briefly present the association activities and financial statements for 2022. The meeting is also to make important decisions regarding the association, such as deciding the size of the membership fee and selecting the board for 2022-2023. HackMD (including join details): https://hackmd.io/2dL_zztLQBi0UO0hfT7LFQ ---------- Subject: Planning meeting for the 2023 Unconference Start: Thursday, 25 May 2023, 14:00 CEST Description: Goals for the meeting: find actual date(s), create a short list of persons we would like to hear talks from, assign activities, create a list of deadlines location: please check chat ---------- Subject: Planning meeting for the 2023 Unconference Start: Thursday, 31 August 2023, 14:00 CEST Description: A planning meeting for the upcoming unconference. Meeting notes and current status at https://hackmd.io/@nordic-rse/unconference-planning. ---------- Subject: Planning meeting for the 2023 Unconference Start: Monday, 23 October 2023, 14:30 CEST Description: A planning meeting for the upcoming unconference. Notes/status at https://hackmd.io/@nordic-rse/unconference-planning. ---------- Subject: Planning meeting for the 2023 Unconference Start: Tuesday, 24 October 2023, 14:00 CEST Description: A planning meeting for the upcoming unconference. Notes/status at https://hackmd.io/@nordic-rse/unconference-planning. ---------- Subject: Unconference 2022 Start: Tuesday, 18 October 2022, 13:00 CEST Description: Nordic RSE 2022 Unconference. See the event page at https://nordic-rse.org/events/2022-online-unconference/ and registration page at https://indico.neic.no/e/nordic-rse-2022 ---------- Subject: Unconference 2022 Start: Wednesday, 19 October 2022, 13:00 CEST Description: Nordic RSE 2022 Unconference. See the event page at https://nordic-rse.org/events/2022-online-unconference/ and registration page at https://indico.neic.no/e/nordic-rse-2022 ---------- Subject: Unconference 2023 Start: Wednesday, 25 October 2023, 13:00 CEST Description: Nordic RSE 2023 Unconference. See the event page at https://nordic-rse.org/events/2023-online-unconference/ and registration page at https://indico.neic.no/e/nordic-rse-unconference-2023 ---------- Subject: Unconference 2023 Start: Thursday, 26 October 2023, 13:00 CEST Description: Nordic RSE 2023 Unconference. See the event page at https://nordic-rse.org/events/2023-online-unconference/ and registration page at https://indico.neic.no/e/nordic-rse-unconference-2023 ---------- Subject: AI Regulation in the EU – challenges and latest developments Start: Wednesday, 24 May 2023, 13:00 CEST Location: zoom, link in hackmd: Description: The EU institutions are currently preparing a regulation on Artificial Intelligence (AI). It is a complex process: The continuous and rapid technological development makes it difficult to stay on track – the law is always behind the technology. This presentation will outline the latest developments on the path to regulating AI and point out critical aspects. The event will include a 20-30 minute talk, followed by informal discussion. ---------- Subject: What a Research Software Engineering group at a Nordic university looks like Start: Wednesday, 05 April 2023, 13:00 CEST Location: zoom, link in hackmd: Description: What does a Research Software Engineering (RSE) group at a Nordic university look like? Aalto RSE supports the whole university, and Richard Darst and other Aalto RSE members will discuss the history behind their team, the way it works, future prospects, and lessons for others. This talk will focus on the administrative side of things, and discussion will focus on what one should know to reproduce this work at other universities. Aalto University is the leading technical university in Finland. Started in 2020, Aalto RSE now serves the entire university in computing, data, and software problems. They work as part of Science-IT, which is effectively the local "HPC team". They have good connections to the local IT Services, Data Agents, and other research services. ---------- Subject: Chapel: Making Parallel Programming Productive, from laptops to supercomputers Start: Wednesday, 30 November 2022, 16:00 CET Location: zoom, link in hackmd: Description: Over the past few decades, a gulf has existed between mainstream programming languages—like Python, Java, C++, Rust, or Swift—and technologies used in practice for programming supercomputers—like MPI, OpenSHMEM, OpenMP, CUDA, OpenCL, or OpenACC. This gulf results in making High Performance Computing something of a specialized skill that may not be readily available to the general programmer or applied computational scientist. In some ways, the problem has even gotten worse over time, as the end of Moore's law has led to building supercomputers using manycore processors and computational accelerators like GPUs. In this talk, I will introduce [Chapel](https://chapel-lang.org/), an open-source language created to bridge this gulf. Chapel strives to support code that is similarly readable/writeable as Python, yet without sacrificing the portability and scalable performance required to utilize supercomputers effectively. Specifically, I will provide motivation for Chapel, present some of its unique features and themes, introduce flagship applications of Chapel, and give a glimpse into our team's current priorities. ---------- Subject: Julia Users Helsinki Meetup Start: Wednesday, 30 November 2022, 14:00 CET Description: Next meetup on November 30 2022 in Otaniemi at 15:00. The room is TBA. This will be the first of a "library development" series, where we will gradually develop a library together and add features step by step. During the first meeting, we will have a general overview of a Julia library structure and general development workflow. As always, free of charge and refreshment included. If you are coming, please register by Thursday 24th November. See https://julia-users-helsinki.github.io/ for details. location: TBA ---------- Subject: A conversation about Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility (EDIA) in the RSE community: reflections on successes and challenges Start: Tuesday, 12 September 2023, 11:00 CEST Description: See https://diverse-rse.github.io/events/2023-09-12. In the next event in the 2023 DiveRSE series, Ella Kaye (Research Software Engineer, University of Warwick) and Malvika Sharan (Senior Researcher – Open Research at the Alan Turing Institute and co-lead of The Turing Way) will converse about their experiences in/with the RSE community, as well as both the challenges and successes they’ve encountered when working to improve EDIA. In a wide-ranging discussion, they will also consider why all RSEs should be engaged with EDIA and how they can offer support, as well as broader philosophical issues around epistemic justice. There will be time for questions and further discussion. ---------- Subject: Julia Users Helsinki Meetup Start: Saturday, 13 August 2022, 15:00 CEST Description: Julia Users Helsinki meets again on August 30th at 16:00 . The topic will be Greetings from JuliaCon, where those who attended will share insights and highlights from JuliaCon. Optionally, you can also join for a self-paid dinner at Fat Lizard. For organization purposes, please confirm your attendance by Sunday 27th August 2023. location: A111a Mordor, Otaakaari 5, Espoo, Finland