# RSE focus discusison Questions

1. Have you heard of the Belgian RSE chapter before?
* No
1. In your mind what could a community of RSEs do for each other?
* Bring people together in similar fields
* Ask questions even if not in same fields
* Need regular events to keep alive
* Hackathons
* Fun challange
* Come together and work on technical skills and exchange
* Project it in the TV and/or the stairs or common place so everyone can see
* Conference ~ Join other conferences like fossdem (e.g. in a room at fossdem)
* Meet other engineers working on similar things
1. What are the biggest hurdles to your current success, happiness, etc. in your current position?
* Often the only engineer ~ difficult to reach out.
* In the case of us though we have enough support and people around us.
1. What would make you excited to attend on a day for RSEs?
* Talks
* Topics
* A.I.
* Long-read sequencing
* Data science
* Storage
* HPC
* Cloud
* Kubernetes
* Web dev
* Software deployment
* Speakers
* Deepmind
* Yann LeCun (CEO Meta AI)
* Geoffrey Hinton
* Demi Hassabis
* Huggingface
* Pytorch
* David R. Kelly (Calico)
* Calico
* Nextflow / Seqera (Phil Ewels)
* Oxford nanopore
* Developers of tools like dorado or minimap2
* Activities
* See above
* Unless there's a big name or company on the speaker list I won't attend.
* I _might_ attend if it's just downstairs and requires no effort.
1. Who would you be excited to see/meet at such an event?
* See above
1. Do you already have / do you want a community to discuss RSE issues?
* Enough for us already

## Workshops

- Critical thinking in the use of AI for software dvelopment
- General use of AI: how and what
- Calling C or Fortran from high-level languages
- OpenID Connect Auth
- Language servers and their implementation
- Reproducible environments without Docker

## Speakers
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kJjxdb5xyG1MMm7FkJeW8V6geNFQ8vZ-iyByF-32Mkw/edit#gid=0

## Activities
* Pizza hackathon (something fun like a game that can be built in 1-2 hours)
* Implement your own neural net (no libraries) to recognise characters from images
* Meshed messaging (leader selection)
* Mobbing session in an alien language/environment
* Wasm
* Capture the flag competition
* Optimization competition
* Regex
* Search
* Open source contribution
* Open source code review
* Call for presentation (talk)
* Call for BOF

## Rooms
* Hackathons (Medium and Small)
* BOF (small) - calls4
* Main track (Autditorium)
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## Things to build
* Naughts-and-crosses / tic-tac-toe
* Data visualisation
* Cellular automata
* Physics simulation
* Re-implement well known algorithm
* Sequence alignment
* Sequence assembly
* Image disappearing point
* Build a "useful" or "funny" cli tool
* Interactive/collaborative project a-la reddit r/place that can be projected graphically for everyone to see:
* Artificial life: each participant can write the "brain" of an organism. How reproduction and mutation happen can be customized by each species. Species populations can be projected.
* Open-source contributions where a TODO list of tasks is projected.
* Image recognition competition with limited compute resources. The image to be recognised is projected along with generated guesses. Resources limited by constrianing them to run in a web browser.
* Collaborative maze solving. Each participant has access to a small part of the maze and must communicate with neighbours in order to solve it. Maze solving progress can be projected.
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[RSE day google sheets](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kJjxdb5xyG1MMm7FkJeW8V6geNFQ8vZ-iyByF-32Mkw/edit#gid=0)