Linus GasserWe had a great time at our first RSE lightning talk in 2026 at EPFL! Thanks to everybody who chimed into the discussions about - LLMs and data papers without data :)
You can find a summary of the meeting here:
Happy to announce two events in the coming weeks at EPFL:
- Lightning Talks next week - you can either come in-person and eat pizza with us, or join by zoom: https://rse.swiss/events/2026_02_26-epfl-lightning-talks/
- Open Source Services Meet-up - special "Digital Sovereignty" edition: https://rse.swiss/events/2026_03_04_oss_services_meet_up_special_edition/
Join us for a our RSE Career Talks event on 4 December 2025 at ETH Hönggerberg in HIT E 51.
We invited five Research Software Engineers to share insights into their work and careers, and to talk about what has helped them progress:
- Dr. Lorenz Blum (Novartis)
- Dr. Aleksandar Bobić (NEXUS)
- Saransh Chopra (EPFL)
- Dr. Marianna Papadionysiou (Scientific IT Services of ETH)
- James Runnalls (EAWAG)
The slides and presentations of the #EnhanceR Symposium are up:
https://symposium.enhancer.ch/materials/
Even my "Building Communities that work" is there :) Unfortunately it was too short to go into depth, but the gist was that for some of the most common social networks, proof-of-personhood will not solve any of the problems...
ineiti#C4DT_EPFL and #RSE_CH are announcing the latest RSE lightning-talks on 2nd of October at EPFL. You can also listen in on zoom:
https://rse.epfl.ch/post/2024-10-02_lightning-talks/
If you're on-site, sign up to join us for pizza!
October Lightning Talks
Here goes the next iteration of the lightning talks - thanks a lot to all of you who helped choose the date, and for the people who signed up for the lightning talks! The meeting will take place on the 2nd of October in room BC410. You can also join via Zoom. Here is the program: 11am - lightning 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 11:45am - break out discussions 12pm - pizza for those online 1pm - finish Please be sure to sign up for pizza: