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. Here is a non-binding list of ideas we had:

• Workgroups
  • RSEs and CDD / CDI
  • Survey of RSEs (contracts, other activities, preferred days)
  • ch-rse.org website
  • Environmental impact of our IT projects
• Book clubs (ETHZ is doing one on Pragmatic Programmer)
• Other social activities (joining the existing ones)
• Annual CH-wide meeting
• Training sessions, also with PhD students
• RSE exchange between groups

As always, don’t forget to:

• Join our channel on matrix: RSE-EPFL or the RSE-CH space
• Join our mailing list RSE-digest