# Nordic-RSE Conference common notes

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## Links
- [Schedule](https://nordic-rse.org/nrse2025/#schedule)
- [Conference chat](https://coderefinery.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/478806-nordic-rse-2025)
- [A-Z info document](https://hackmd.io/@nordic-rse/nrsecon25_az)
- [Conference presentation slides on Zenodo](https://zenodo.org/communities/nrse25)
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## Day 1

### Keynote 1: Clarity not consensus, Rebecca Willén

The 5 themes of open science presented:

* Accepted
* open access to knowledge and rsources
* infrasructure and enabling tools
* Questioned
* Reproducability and scientific quality
* Research culture and work environment
* Diversity and inclusion

Some of the presented documents:

* [Possible citation for 2011 paper on QRPs](https://academic.oup.com/book/39705/chapter-abstract/350374120?redirectedFrom=fulltext)
* [Open science framework](https://osf.io) and [center for open science](https://cos.io)
* [UNESCO open science toolkit factsheet](https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000383323) here, page 6
* [Free software for freedom](https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html) - "The Free Software movement and the Open Source movement are today separate movements with different views and goals, although we can and do work together on some practical projects."

### Design patterns, Marine Guyot

- [Singleton pattern](https://refactoring.guru/design-patterns/singleton)

Most important thing to teach to researchers mentioned: Documentation!

### In the modern era, what can we learn from free and open software? , Richard Darst

- [Presentation slides](https://cryptpad.fr/presentation/#/2/presentation/view/EiU5tmOdvJtbHsybb+DXYYLaHScbxcSN7LXJEJ9R+f8/embed/)

* [Debian Free Software Guidelines](https://wiki.debian.org/DebianFreeSoftwareGuidelines)

### 3D visualisation and manipulation of scientific data in static web applications

Tutorial code: [https://github.com/Akodiat/tutorialNordicRSE25/](https://github.com/Akodiat/tutorialNordicRSE25/)

Mentioned [pyodide](https://pyodide.org/en/stable/) for running Python in the browser. Load packages with [micropip](https://pypi.org/project/micropip/)

As a simple plotting library recommended [vega-lite](https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/)

For 3D plots uses [Three.js](https://threejs.org)

From QA someone also brought up an R equivelent to pyodide: [WebR](https://docs.r-wasm.org/webr/latest/), and was cited as being used for long term data storing as stand alone archive.

### Facilitating Donated Data
[Slides](https://rantahar.github.io/NRSE2025/#/)

E.g. on netflix donated data: https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.9362

Mentioned PORT software to allow test users to process their own data before upload: https://github.com/eyra/port

### Unreviewed and Unrunnable? On the role of peer review in publishing reproducible research software

Cited paper in opening by M Baker https://www.nature.com/articles/533452a

Another by P Walters in 2013: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23758509/

Example of CI for publishing given at end of talk https://codeocean.com/

## Career/RSE group discussion

-> Own notes document: https://hackmd.io/@nordic-rse/nre2025-career-panel

## Funding discussion

UIT [RSE group](https://research-software.uit.no) & [Aalto](https://www.aalto.fi/en/services/research-software-engineers) presented their funding models

UiT: Shadow funding

Aalto: 2 FTEs funded, over time got more via research project grants

Impact: Ask: How much time have you saved through the RSE service?

Dream funding: Aalto:20-50% basic funding, rest project funding (external grants, flagship projects), teaching funding via either (20% teaching,20 % short term, 60% long term)
UiT: 2 100% position to be used for help desk, keeping things running, rest get money from projects, be on larger projects; something central so that you do not have to discriminate between faculties (some paid some didn't)

"Complaints drive funding", encourage researchers to tell what they want, also show them what they might not yet know what they want

Chalmers: one part NAISS funded (level 1+2), level 3 is funded by university via expression of interest, if people want more than X, they have to come with own funding

### Coderefinary talk

[Presentation slides](https://zenodo.org/records/15470651)

- FAIR - https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201618

### LUMI AI Guide

- https://github.com/Lumi-supercomputer/LUMI-AI-Guide
- Singularity containers: https://docs.sylabs.io/guides/latest/user-guide/

### Game engines for visualization

- example game engines
- Unreal
- Unity
- Godot

### VOTO

Autonomous under-water robots:

https://observations.voiceoftheocean.org/

#### Some links from other places:
Research Software Alliance funding opportunities: https://www.researchsoft.org/funding-opportunities/
Inspiration from UK:
- https://www.software.ac.uk/blog/visibility-research-software-engineers-research-funding
- https://imperialcollegelondon.github.io/research-computing/funding.html
- https://www.software.ac.uk/guide/how-fund-research-software-development
- Research Software Maintenance fund (only UK): https://www.software.ac.uk/programmes/research-software-maintenance-fund

Personal (small) funding via the **SSI fellowship program** available, international applicants encouraged (talk to Samantha if interested :) ): https://www.software.ac.uk/programmes/fellowship-programme

## UiT RSE group

Note that as uni staff you can still apply to Erasmus +

Tromsø is location for Nordic-RSE conference 2026: June 9-10 2026

## The periodic table: R package and visualized with ggplot2

https://github.com/solarchemist/periodicdata

## HPC-R course

slides: https://a3s.fi/heli/hpr_hj_nrse25_wide.pdf

R documentation from CSC: https://docs.csc.fi/apps/r-env/

CSC training github repository: https://github.com/csc-training/

High performance R course materials (check in Nov): https://github.com/csc-training/high-performance-r

## n-min-ct

Zero emission cities https://fmezen.no

## ENCCS training

Lesson material: https://enccs.se/lessons/

## Link collection
>Here we can collect all links mentioned during the conference

https://igdore.org/
https://refactoring.guru/

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## General conference feedback

**One thing you liked:**

- The panel worked well
- Time limits were respected
- The schedule was actively kept up to date with changes
- Communal note-taking was encouraged, I love how that's established culture within Nordic-RSE!
- ..

**One thing to improve for next time:**

- Sounds silly, but I can't copy from the schedule for note taking (at least in Safari)
- +1 and it's not silly, it's basic UX/a11y :) <3
- +1 for a calendar that can be exported. Maybe an ICS file or a pure-text version of the program. I've had good experience (as a participant) with [Sched](https://sched.com/conference-planning-app/), but their high price is a bit discouraging. For a deployed example, see https://userconf2024.sched.com/.
- Loved the audience discussions, but had problems hearing everyone. How can we ensure auditory accessibility without stimying spontaneous/free discussions? Smaller rooms?
- ..

**Any other comments:**

- Please consider extending the conference over 3 shorter days to avoid parallel sessions, improve focus, and give participants more time to explore the city.
- ..

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