[Scipy-organizers] Research Software Engineers BOF

[Kelsey Jordahl]

It looks like the Plotly and Bioinformatics items were tutorials that were
not accepted.  John Leeman's is a already scheduled as a poster.  We can
just remove all 3 from the BOFs schedule.

Kelsey



On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Kyle Mandli <kyle.mandli at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am not sure what those are beyond the one someone just emailed about.  I
> am also not sure what is supposed to be there now that things were moved
> around, I think we tried to avoid putting anything in the evening on
> Thursday due to the social event.
>
>
> Kyle
>
> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Andy Ray Terrel <andy.terrel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Okay do we want to change them to a poster?  They didn't get printed
> > in the schedule but there are posters that aren't showing up (like two
> > posters from MRocklin and Riehl).
> > -- Andy
> > On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Kyle Mandli <kyle.mandli at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Something is wrong with the schedule, none of those were submitted as
> BoFs.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Andy Ray Terrel <andy.terrel at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I meant July 10the below.
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Andy Ray Terrel <andy.terrel at gmail.com
> >
> >>> wrote:
> >>> > I did this by hand. Looks like very few had abstracts of any kind.
> >>> >
> >>> > Also we have three bof presentations that look more like talks:
> >>> >
> >>> > July 9: 5:30 Intro to biopython, Plot.ly, Investigating stiff
> controls
> >>> >
> >>> > Is this correct?  Right now the video guys are taking off at 5:30 so
> >>> > these might not get recorded in their current state.
> >>> >
> >>> > -- Andy
> >>> >
> >>> > On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 5:55 PM, Kyle Mandli <kyle.mandli at gmail.com>
> >>> > wrote:
> >>> >> It does not appear that any of the BoF abstracts got transferred.
>  Was
> >>> >> this
> >>> >> something we had to do manually?  It would be nice to have all of
> them
> >>> >> get
> >>> >> on the site.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Kyle
> >>> >>
> >>> >>
> >>> >> On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Andy Ray Terrel <
> andy.terrel at gmail.com>
> >>> >> wrote:
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> done
> >>> >>>
> >>> >>> On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 2:17 PM, ISD.Research Software Development
> >>> >>> <calr766 at live.ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> >>> >>> > Hi,
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> > At
> >>> >>> >
> https://conference.scipy.org/scipy2014/schedule/presentation/1750/
> >>> >>> > only the Description, and not the abstract, of the BOF I
> proposed is
> >>> >>> > shown.
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> > Please can you add the longer abstract text I submitted with the
> >>> >>> > proposal to the page?
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> > Here’s the text again:
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> > Programming is ever more important to the research effort.
> However,
> >>> >>> > most
> >>> >>> > researchers are neither trained nor incentivised to produce
> >>> >>> > readable,
> >>> >>> > reliable and efficient software, while general programmers are
> not
> >>> >>> > often
> >>> >>> > able to rapidly assimilate the scientific, mathematical and
> cultural
> >>> >>> > context
> >>> >>> > of research software.
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> > Therefore, a role is emerging for the Research Software
> Engineer, a
> >>> >>> > research professional who collaborates with academic colleagues
> to
> >>> >>> > develop
> >>> >>> > and maintain the high quality software which is necessary for
> 21st
> >>> >>> > century
> >>> >>> > research, from scripts which make data analysis and visualisation
> >>> >>> > repeatable
> >>> >>> > to advanced simulations running on state-of-the-art
> supercomputers.
> >>> >>> > Research
> >>> >>> > Software Engineers also act as an institutional well of best
> >>> >>> > practice in
> >>> >>> > research programming, and provide training and teaching in
> research
> >>> >>> > software
> >>> >>> > skills to emerging researchers.
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> > These individuals have a variety of names in different contexts,
> >>> >>> > from
> >>> >>> > Research Technologist to Alternative Academic via
> Bioinformatician
> >>> >>> > and
> >>> >>> > "laboratory computer person", but by comparing our experiences,
> we
> >>> >>> > hope to
> >>> >>> > better understand how to carry out, stabilise and promote our
> >>> >>> > significant
> >>> >>> > contribution to the multi-skilled 21st century research effort.
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> > Some links:
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> > http://www.rse.ac.uk/
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> >
> http://www.software.ac.uk/blog/2012-11-09-craftsperson-and-scholar
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> >
> http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/save-your-work-give-software-engineers-a-career-track/2006431.article#.Ug3l4nKRsi8.twitter
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> > Thanks,
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> > James.
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> > --
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> >                               Dr James Hetherington,
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> > Team Leader,                                   Honorary Lecturer
> >>> >>> > Research Software Development    Department of Computer Science
> >>> >>> > Research IT Services
> >>> >>> > Information Services Division           Faculty of Engineering
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> >                             University College London
> >>> >>> >
> >>> >>> > Tel: 02035495164 (Int. 65164)
> >>> >>> > Mobile: 07946868834
> >>> >>> > Skype: ucgajhe
> >>> >>> > Twitter: @uclrcsoftdev
> >>> >>> > Blog: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/research-software-development/
> >>> >>> > Site: development.rc.ucl.ac.uk
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