# Nordic-RSE Community profile
Samanthas homework for Scientific Community Engagement fundamentals course in January 2025.

## WHAT is the name of your community and on WHAT domain does it focus?

The Nordic Research Software Engineering community is primarily made up of Research software engineers (RSE) based in the Nordic and Baltic countries: Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.

## What is the purpose of the community? (WHY)

>(from website)

The Nordic Research Software Engineers association hopes to promote the careers of RSEs and the advancement of science by:

- being a networking platform for specialized research supporters,
- provide a community and professional development network for RSEs (in particular supporting career development),
- organizing events to bring RSEs and related people together, and
- support whose who want to bring RSE services and skills to their community (in other words, provide a RSE service).

## WHO is the community for (and who hosts it)?

Research Software Engineers and people interested in the topic of various career levels across the Nordics and Baltics.

> Something about Board, active members and "lurkers"

## WHERE does the community meet / do its work?

Zulip chat, weekly virtual coffee breaks, biweekly activity planning meetings, annual assembly, annual (un-)conference (virtual or in-person)

## HOW do members participate in the group?

Posts and comments on Zulip, discussing in coffee breaks and activity meetings, contributing to or organizing activities and website development

## Is there anything else you need to include – such as brief future plans, how the community is funded, the intended lifespan of the group, or how it relates to other groups or projects?

>(from website)

We are a young association and there is plenty of room to get involved with your own ideas - please get in touch.

>(from website)

Many of us are active in CodeRefinery, which focuses on teaching RSE-like skills to researchers.

We are not directly funded by anything, but CodeRefinery supports us by sharing the chat and other infrastructure. Multiple organizations support us by allowing their staff to contribute to our activities.

## Your complete community overview statement

The Nordic Research Software Engineering community is primarily made up of Research software engineers (RSE) based in the Nordic and Baltic countries: Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.

The Nordic Research Software Engineers association hopes to promote the careers of RSEs and the advancement of science by:

- being a networking platform for specialized research supporters,
- provide a community and professional development network for RSEs (in particular supporting career development),
- organizing events to bring RSEs and related people together, and
- support whose who want to bring RSE services and skills to their community (in other words, provide a RSE service).

Research Software Engineers and people interested in the topic of various career levels across the Nordics and Baltics.

The community hangs out in the Zulip chat, has weekly virtual coffee breaks, biweekly activity planning meetings, annual assembly and an annual (un-)conference (virtual or in-person).

Members interact with posts and comments on Zulip, discussing in coffee breaks and activity meetings, contributing to or organizing activities and website development

We are a young association and there is plenty of room to get involved with your own ideas - please get in touch.

Many of us are active in CodeRefinery, which focuses on teaching RSE-like skills to researchers.

We are not directly funded by anything, but CodeRefinery supports us by sharing the chat and other infrastructure. Multiple organizations support us by allowing their staff to contribute to our activities.

# Community members

Broad stakeholder type
> Internal community member or external stakeholder?

Community member type
> Add a brief description of each member type below.

Description Motivating scenario(s) (what's the situation or challenge that brought them here?
> You might be able to think of more than one example of a motivating situation that might prompt a member to want to engage in the community. You can note as many as you like.

The super-objective - what they need from the community (keep asking "why?")
> What's the main reason this member type needs to engage with the community? Keep asking "why?" until you reach a final answer.

The subtext - what they also need but won't say out loud
> Is there an additional reason - or an unvoiced part of the main reason - that the member wants to engage with the community but that they probably wouldn't say out loud?

Barriers (What's preventing them engaging in the community?)
> Barriers to participation might take a range of forms - that could include time, money, technical ability or power dynamics.

## Internal community members

### Board members
- Volunteers wanting to guide the direction of the association
- People that are looking for a way to influence happenings of the association.
- "I want to learn what the community wants so that I can guide the association towards these goals"
- "It looks good on my CV"
- Other duties, and the board being a quite abstract construct.

### "Active" members
- Volunteers coming to meetings and planning activities for the association (some on work time, others in their free time)
- People that are interested in providing for the community and spending time with others to discuss Research Software Engineering topics.
- "I want to provide opportunities for the community to get together and learn from one another;
- "I have the chance to influence what we do"
- "It might result in nice speaker opportunities"
- Time, overwhelmedness, quetioning if it is worth it.

### "Passive" members
- People paying the membership fee and coming to events organized by the association
- People in general interested in RSE topics, but mostly on the consumer side. They enjoy meeting other RSE-minded people though.
- "I want to join events organized by others to meet other like minded people and learn from them"
- "I might want to get involved some day to be more active, when more reach is achieved"
- Time, overwhelmedness, uncertainty if "this is the right place"

### Lurkers
- People that are not members of the association but now and then give a comment on something happening in chat
- People lightly interested in RSE, want to follow along, but do not have deep interest in connecting.
- "I want to follow along what is going on"
- " Something more interesting may come up some day"
- Time, interest

## External stakeholders

### Supporting organizations?