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Published on Monday, 30 October 2023 01:22

Envisioning the Next Stage for US-RSE and Synergies with the Center of Excellence for Science Gateways (SGX3)  

Thursday, November 9, 12pm ET/11am CT/10am MT/9am PT (shared with community call of US-RSE)

Zoom register: https://asu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0tdempqDgrHtawKuD8XZ88CvcJDG0nDM4z 

US-RSE has had a lot of momentum and positive energy from the beginning in 2017. It gained even more in the last couple of months evident in the rising numbers of members growing to over 2000 and the sold out inaugural conference in Chicago.

The grant of the Sloan foundation allows for the first time that staff members can complement the volunteer effort: Sandra Gesing as the Executive Director at 50% and a soon-to-be-announced full-time community manager. These roles will take US-RSE to the next level beyond volunteer work. The other 50% of Sandra’s effort go to science gateways aka virtual research environments aka virtual labs, which are research software solutions that allow researchers to focus on their research and not on nitty-gritty details of complex research infrastructures.

The community of RSEs and science gateways have quite some overlap. A common goal of both communities is the creation of non-traditional career paths  for RSEs and science gateway creators that are lacking in the academic and national lab world. The community call will go into Sandra’s vision for the role of the executive director to achieve financial sustainability for US-RSE, collaboration via the Center of Excellence for Science Gateways (SGX3), and major tasks for the next couple of months. The goal of the community call is to gather input from the community on those topics.

Zoom register: https://asu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0tdempqDgrHtawKuD8XZ88CvcJDG0nDM4z