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# 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)

