Nordic-RSE at RSE worldwide session at RSECon'24

Current one-slider based on below and wrangled into RSE worldwide template: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1pdBaUNM6s9beKoyVdv1V-rMsseW0C9WJtr2NlXGewzA/edit?usp=sharing

Collecting ideas and content for Nordic-RSE presentation at RSE worldwide session at RSECon'24

INFO: Add information about your national/regional association and/or RSE community here

Nordics + baltics
Bi-weekly meetings
Chat (with CodeRefinery)
Association registered in Finland
Maybe something about what are our main goals? We are not so active as "job dispatchers" (compared e.g. to RSE UK which I think is more active in putting together job repositories), but we do focus a lot on creating a sense of belonging to a community, giving a platform for professional RSEs to share a space.
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CHALLENGE: What is one challenge you are facing/would like help with?

Find time for members to contribute
- related: find support within our infrastructures (supportive bosses and colleagues, permissive structure) to allow us to find the time to do this
Keeping the ball rolling, sustainable structure
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SUCCESS: What is one recent success you want to celebrate with the group?

Nordic-RSE Conference in May ‘24
Anecdotically, there are people who stumbled upon us online while being disillusioned with their identity in academia, and realized that being a RSE is possible, that we exist, and that jobs with this description are available. That is more or less what happened to me, but I heard another couple of people saying similar things.
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