May 9, 2025

RSEs as active contributors to build scientific communities around ORD

We’re excited to invite you for the upcoming discussion on how RSEs can participate in the community around Research Data Planification, DataManagement Plans and FAIR principles. Date: Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025 Room: BC010 Signup: Cryptpad Form Agenda: 11:00 - Intro Gilles 11:15 - Presentation of discussion points 11:25 - Split up in groups 11:45 - Report from groups 12:00 - Pizza and discussions Gilles Dubochet from EPFL’s Open Science Unit will set the theme by laying out how Open Research Data (ORD) Data Management Plans (DMP) and Research Software Engineers (RSE) fit together.

March 27, 2025

Open Source Software Services meet-up

The Center for Digital Trust (C4DT) welcomed participants from all over EPFL to the Spring edition of our Open Source Services meet-up on March 25th. As usual, the meet-up is an opportunity for EPFL’s open source community to gather and exchange ideas and experiences. The first part of the meet-up was a round of lightning talks followed by break-out discussion groups to allow participants to dive deeper into the topics. The meet-up was wrapped up by an open-ended pizza lunch where participants could continue to chat about their experiences running and using OSS services at EPFL.

March 12, 2025

March 2025 RSE lunch

Hungry to meet other RSEs? Then come and have lunch with us on Thursday, the 20th of March, at 11:45am in Foodlab. There is also non-vegan food, because it’s Thursday :) Meeting in the entrance of native.

February 28, 2025

Code publishing good practices guidelines

The ENAC-IT4R team was delighted to have us for a working session on updating their resources « Code publishing Good practices guidelines ». Various discussions were held around the different topics, and ENAC vows to keep their list updated which you can find here: ENAC IT4R - scroll to the end of the page As a reminder, you’re also welcome to our weekly ENAC-IT4R’s team Tech meeting. The aim is to stay up-to-date with latest data and software technologies relevant to our ENAC research community, on and off campus 🙂 Living schedule.

January 22, 2025

January 2025 RSE lunch

It was a fun reunion to start 2025 with some of the RSEs at EPFL. Celebrating the birthday of one of our RSEs who prefers vegan food, we united in the Foodlab to have a vegan dish with vegan cookies and vegan water. You were all patient to listen to daddy Linus and Edward telling you stories about the “good old times” - and thanks for chiming in and telling your stories, too!

November 28, 2024

December Lightning Talks

Thanks for all the persons present for the December Lightning Talks! It was as always great fun with good discussions. Son Pham-Ba - Local “AI” generated images Valérian Rousset - CDD/CDI workgroup return Ahmed Elghareeb - Environmental Impact of AI and its supply chain And a picture at the end:

October 2, 2024

October Lightning Talks

It was a pleasure meeting you all for the lightning talks! Thanks for the presentators and the public for the questions. We had the following talks: Carine Dengler: Local LLMs for fun, profit and nonesense Nicolas Richart: Spack - a package manager for HPC that can be use on any machine Uwe Schmitt (ETHZ): pytest-regtest - a pytest plugin for snapshot testing In addition, we also discussed new projects for the RSEs at EPFL and beyond.

July 10, 2024

RSE Lightning Talks on July 10th, 2024

Illuminating Presentations were done Our lineup of lightning talks is sure to spark your curiosity: Valérian Rousset: WebAssembly introduction: Discover the power of WebAssembly, use cases, language support Presentation Bryan Perdrizat: Do you really know git? Presentation Reto Trappitsch: Packaging Python CLIs and GUIs for air-gapped machines Presentation Thanks for the three presenters, and all the people participating in the discussions on these topics. Our next RSE lightning talks will probably be in September.

May 23, 2024

Zenodo

From GitHub to Zenodo: pros, cons and integration of the two platforms As researcher engineers, you understand the importance of efficient version control and collaborative development. GitHub has long been the go-to platform for managing and tracking code changes, but it lacks a built-in mechanism for long-term preservation or citation of code as a research output. This is where Zenodo becomes essential: by assigning Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to uploads, Zenodo easily transforms repositories on GitHub into persistent, citable resources, thereby enhancing the visibility and academic impact of your work.

May 21, 2024

First RSE lunch

🎉 We are happy to announce the first RSE Lunch 🎉 Let’s grab lunch together and discuss about anything! The lunch will take place on the 11th of June at 11h45 at the FoodLab Alpine cafeteria. We’ll meet in the cafeteria hall. Please note that you do not need to buy your food from the cafeteria. You can bring it from home or buy it at the food trucks. Hoping to see many of you there !