# Australian RSEs Collab Call ## 9th March 2023 _Note: This HackMD will be frozen at about 2pm Brisbane time and if anyone would like PDF copies please email me to ask (s.tee@uq.edu.au). Lovely meeting everyone!_ ### Welcomes! - Rowland Mosbergen (WEHI) - Emily Kahl (UQ) - RSE working in computaional chemistry, mostly molecular dynamics - Implementing methods in non-equilibrium thermodynamics into large, public codebases - Interested in open-source community management and sustainable software engineering for research software - Genevieve Buckley (Monash Cryo-EM) - Shern Tee (UQ) - software development for molecular dynamics - currently super into web stuff (HackMD, RevealJS, Quarto) - whohooo - Jack Everson (Griffith Uni/ Bioinformatics) - Johanna Bayer (University of Melbourne) - final-month PhD student in computational neuroscience and psychiatry - bachelor computer science student - interested in everything computer science and modelling - alternative career: pole dancer, sys-admin - Andrew (Alf) Leahy (Data Manager, Hawkesbury Institute at WSU) - a.leahy@westernsydney.edu.au - HPC, spatial, interactives for VR/XR clustered screen environments - big brother to 💈💃 sister. lol - Placing and using data in "working data" repositories - [DataLad](https://www.datalad.org/)? - Paula Martinez (ARDC + UQ) working on incentives for recognition of RSE - National: [Eureka Prize](https://ardc.edu.au/article/enter-ardc-eureka-prize-for-research-software/)! (open until 14th April) - [Entry page (Australian Museum)](https://australian.museum/get-involved/eureka-prizes/enter/research-software/) - [Visible Research Software Interest Group](https://sites.google.com/ardc.edu.au/visible-research-software) - [VRS IG Ask Me Anything](https://ardc.edu.au/event/visible-research-software-ig-ask-me-anything/): 30 March! [EventBrite link](https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/visible-research-software-interest-group-ig-ask-me-anything-tickets-564806761227) - Organising an RSE/developers meeting face to face in Brisbane (everyone is welcome to join) co-organised with QCIF date TBA will take place in mid May - Mitchell O'Sullivan (PhD Candidate, QUT) - HPC enthusiast! Researching performant methods for approximate Bayesian computation (simulation -> model inference) - Plan to publish a package written in Julia to implement novel sampling algorithms - This guide to software packaging and engineering might help: [Turing Institute RSE Python](https://alan-turing-institute.github.io/rse-course/html/index.html) - Today's interesting project: Partial sorting in C++ using AVX-512 vectorization ### Breakout Rooms! - (Shern) Workshopping data management slides - Slides here: [GitHub Page](https://srtee.github.io/ctsym_2023/#/title-slide) - (Alf) Managing mega-data-sets with good query-type API - (Genevieve) Conference talk topics? ### NOTES - Dan katz's ideas are worth spreading https://danielskatzblog.wordpress.com/ - (Shern) I'm using his material on reproducibility ([GitHub repo](https://github.com/danielskatz/repro-fdtd1d)) - Reach out to Hacky Hours around the country to suggest as lunches - Regular coding discussion and challenges. Peer group for engineers separate from user-support Hacky Hours - More explicit "Newcomer Hour / Problem-Solvers Hour"?