Minutes for 2025-01-17

Present

• James Collier
• Johan Philips
• Alex Botzki
• Jochem Claes

Topics

Composition of RSE steering group

RSE international council matrix channel website Podcast (Peter Schmidt)

Add/ask Femke De Backere (UGent) https://www.linkedin.com/in/femke-de-backere-011b374/

the people present in the call youtube event

SORSE events (https://sorse.github.io/, have stopped now)

RSEs in the world see website, https://rsecon24.society-rse.org/programme/rse-worldwide/

charter? to be developed in the world

personal interest: Jochem have been working for communities in the past

Microsoft background: other funding opportunities could be considered or in-kind contributions

• Need to publish the feedback from RSDD2024

• what other initiatives are there?

  • Belgium Industrial R&D
  • Quantum Circle: Pioneering Quantum Communication
  • Biolizard
  • a lot of meetups
    • Bits in bio

Organisation

• Are we going to be ad-hoc for now or a VZW?

  • for the time being we do ad hoc

• Who are the organising committee?

  • James
  • Jochem
  • Philip
  • Alex

GitHub is certainly fine

• nice landing page would be a "must"

interesting approach by FWO to facilitate community building for Research Data Management -> FRDN

Co-organisation of Belgium RSE (full org of the community)

Hosting of events

new community meeting: Johan Philips (KU Leuven) is interested

• team at KU Leuven as event organisers

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/femke-de-backere-011b374/

other ad hoc meeting are of course possible

FOSDEM 2025

• already in February

Next committee meeting

• 21 Feb @ 14u James to make cal invite;
• Jochem will reflect on the comminuty building.
• Alex to share results from RSDD2024
• 22 @ 9u30 Jan Johan makes cal invite for conference