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title: 2021 RSE survey dissemination
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title: 2021 RSE survey dissemination

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**Contact person:** Patric Holmvall, Radovan Bast
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# 2021 RSE survey dissemination

**Link to the survey:** https://softwaresaved.limequery.com/386272?lang=en

**Official blogpost:** https://www.software.ac.uk/news/complete-international-rse-survey-and-help-us-understand-rse-community

**Background:** The 2021 RSE survey is completed, and (without any notice) will be launched ~22 Nov. The survey is launched worldwide, targets anyone working with research codes (RSEs, reserachers, software engineers, students ...), aims to probe the environment in which research code is developed, takes roughly 20min to fill in, and is done in coordination with other RSE chapters (from US to Europe to Australia). See the [2018 survey here](https://www.software.ac.uk/blog/2018-03-12-what-do-we-know-about-rses-results-our-international-surveys).

We need to work together to disseminate the survey within the Nordics+Baltics. This includes adapting the blog post to e.g. an email to be sent out on mailing lists, a tweet, shorter/longer messages to be sent out in private channels, and maybe a blogpost on the Nordic RSE website? Second, we need to compile a list of where/how to disseminate it, and find a responsible for each task.

## Where/how to dissemiante
Please feel free to fill in more places/assign yourself. Please find templates furhter down.

- [x] Nordic RSE member email, [name=JR]
- [x] Nordic RSE twitter, [name=RB]
    - [x] Again: blog post release [name=RB]
    - [ ] Again: reminder mid/late December, [name=PH]
    - [ ] Again: final reminder before survey close (1-2 weeks into January), [name=PH]
- [x] Nordic RSE blog post, [name=PH]
- [x] CR chat, [name=RB]
- [x] Carpentries slack/instructor, [name=Naoe]
- [x] Sigma2/metacenter slack, [name=RB]
- [ ] ..., [name=?]

National computation centers/infrastructures
- [x] Finland: CSC, [name=Samantha]
  - [x] (some) Internal mailing list(s) and chat groups
  - [x] CSC users: short plus some of long text plus a paragraph on why CSC is supporting this (based on Jussi H inputs) -> "CSC is working in close collaboration with Nordic-RSE to coordinate Finnish RSE activities. We believe that there are many researchers, that might identify as Research Software Engineer among you even though it is not part of the official job description."
  - [ ] CSC twitter (suggested to retweet our tweet and will write another once the email goes out to users)
      - [x] retweet (https://twitter.com/CSCfi/status/1466698085262925827?s=20)
      - [ ] own tweet (january)
  - [x] CSC internal webpage (long text published 08.12.21) + internal chat
- [ ] Sweden: SNIC, [name=Diana] ([name=PH] will find contact)
- [x] Sweden: ENCCS, [name=Thor] ([name=PH] will find contact)
- [ ] Norway: , [name=RB]
- [ ] Denmark: , [name=Thomas A] ([name=PH] will find contact)
- [ ] Iceland: IRHPC, [name=Rohit] ([name=PH] will find contact)
- [ ] Estonia: , [name=?]
- [ ] Latvia: , [name=?]
- [ ] Lithuania: , [name=Ieva D, (wrote emails to heads of NCC Lithunia and VU HPC, they will share a link to the survey along with their HPC course schedule for december or january)]

Sub-national:
- [ ] Finland, Aalto, [name=?]
  - [ ] chat
  - [ ] triton-users mailing list
  - [x] someone at broader university level
  - [x] Department of Built environment mailing list [name=Samantha]
- [?] Finland, SYKE (environment institute) [name=Samantha], send to a fellow researcher who may or may not be able to share it with internal mailinglist/chat
- [x] Finland, LUKE (natural resources institute)[name=Samantha], fellow researcher put it into LUKE intranet
- [x] Finland, FGI (geospatial research institute) [name=Samantha], sent to internal chat
- [x] Finland, FMI (meteorological institute) [name=Samantha], fellow researcher put it into FMI internal chat

- [ ] Sweden, Uppsala University [name=PH]
- [ ] Sweden, Chalmers [name=PH]


Maybe also: [PRACE](https://prace-ri.eu/), [Focus CoE](https://www.hpccoe.eu/about/) (EU project that connects 14 big EU projects), [Plan-E](https://plan-europe.eu/) platform of national escience centers, EuroCC?


## Message templates

### Blog post template

Moved to https://github.com/nordic-rse/nordic-rse.github.io/pull/342


### Longer message/email template

Do you develop research codes, or generally work with research software or data analysis? Perhaps you even feel more connected to the technology side: programming, software, data, etc., rather than the writing of papers? Although this work is crucial to the research, the modern research environment seldom fully recognizes it, in contrast to other methodology development. Take part in the [international Research Software Engineer (RSE) survey](https://softwaresaved.limequery.com/386272?lang=en) to help us understand how we can improve the situation. Your current position or job title does not matter, only that you feel connected to software, data, computation, or similar technology. The results will be anonymized and published openly, and will be invaluable to obtain better support from universities/institutes, national associations, funders and other policy makers.

You can also help by sharing this survey with colleagues and groups who do research software engineering, and increase the reach by sharing it in mailing lists, group chats, blog posts, or newsletters.

The survey was created by [Nordic-RSE](https://nordic-rse.org/) in collaboration with other [national RSE associations](https://researchsoftware.org/2021/01/27/introducing-the-international-council-of-RSE-associations.html). Nordic-RSE is the Nordic+Baltics association advocating for RSEs. Founded in 2017 and registered in Finland in 2021, it provides a [community](https://coderefinery.zulipchat.com), [periodic seminars](https://nordic-rse.org/events/seminar-series/), and in the future [other events](https://nordic-rse.org/events/) which can connect RSEs to like-minded individuals to promote career development. It will also advocate for the value of RSE services within the research process.

Please take the survey at (open until 14.01.2022): <https://softwaresaved.limequery.com/386272?lang=en>

You can read more about the survey and Nordic-RSE here: <https://nordic-rse.org/blog/international-rse-survey/>

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### Shorter message template

Do you do research, but feel more connected to the technology side: programming, software, data, etc., than writing of the papers? Although this work is crucial to the research, the modern research environment seldom fully recognizes this work - to help us improve the situation, take the international "Research Software Engineer" survey, so we can better support your needs. Your current position or job title does not matter, only that you feel connected to software, data, computation, or similar technology.

You can also help by sharing this survey with colleagues and groups who do research software engineering, and increase the reach by sharing it in mailing lists, group chats, blog posts, or newsletters.

Survey(open until 14.01.2022): <https://softwaresaved.limequery.com/386272?lang=en>
More info: <https://nordic-rse.org/blog/international-rse-survey/>


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### Tweets
Nordic-RSE tweet: https://twitter.com/nordic_rse/status/1463033075630166034
Official tweet: https://twitter.com/SoftwareSaved/status/1462767020487974912

We can send out more tweets later to remind about the survey. These tweets can also include stats on how many has answered so far etc.

