My notes and thoughts after attending the US Research Software Engineering 2024 conference in Albuquerque, NM:
https://hectorcorrea.com/blog/2024-11-04/us-research-software-engineering-24
*Posted on 2024-11-04* Last month (October/2024) I attended the [US Research Software Engineering 2024](https://us-rse.org/usrse24/) conference that took place in Albuquerque, NM. This post is a summary of what I learned during this event. Although I am not a Research Software Engineer (RSE) per-se, most of the projects I am involved at work are related to developing infrastructure to support research data. So, when last year I started hearing rumblings about Research Software Engineering conferences I got a bit curious and decided to attend the one in the US.
Really enjoyed US-RSE'24 in ABQ! I'm glad I joined US-RSE and decided to attend the conference, despite its proximity to my PhD defense!
Thanks to Anshu Dubey from Argonne for introducing me to US-RSE, in response to a question I had about open data at AITHERM'23 (a niche workshop organized by Dr. Yoonjin Won at UC Irvine)!
I'm gradually going through my notes and following people I met at US-RSE'24, so if you get a random follow then maybe this post explains it!
Another gem from the lightning talks at #usrse24
“Every name is a chance to communicate” - Jeff Soules when talking about the value of choosing variable or function names in our code
I like the approach that Daniel Howard advocated on his lighting talk on mindful software development:
The software development process “can’t be perfect but it can be intentional”
Slides of the first keynote of the #usrse24 conference.
RSE: where it started and where it's going
Simon Hettrick