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Open Research Devroom at FOSDEM: Call for Participations

November 18, 2025

The upcoming FOSDEM conference in Brussels on 31 January and 1 February 2026 will feature an Open Research Devroom, with previous editions covering many RSE-related topics. A list of these topics from 2025 can be found at https://archive.fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/research/

From https://research-fosdem.github.io/:

We invite developers and users of open tools and technologies used in a research and investigation context to contribute to the 2026 edition of FOSDEM in Brussels, the largest open-source conference in Europe.

We understand research as the general process of knowledge production and inquiry. This includes scientific research, investigative journalism, data journalism, OSINT, as well as research and investigations undertaken by NGOs, civil society, community and activist groups, etc.

EPFL RSE Lightning Talks

October 23, 2025

Another wonderful RSE Lightning Talks at EPFL. Thanks to all the presenters for taking the time to prepare what they care about and are currently working on. This was also one of the first events where we had half of our audience on zoom! Click on the post for links to the slides.

Open Source Software Service@EPFL and Beyond

October 9, 2025

The Center for Digital Trust (C4DT)’s bi-annual open source services meet-up took place on the 9th October at EPFL and - for the first time - remotely, to extend the discussion beyond EPFL. As always, the meet-up is an opportunity for meeting and discussing how open source software services can have a positive impact in our environment.

You can download the slides from the presentations here.

A Look Back at This Years EnhanceR Symposium

September 18, 2025

More than 100 people from all over Switzerland attended this years EnhanceR Symposium which took place on September 4th at HEG-FR in Fribourg.

Swiss RSE Survey

September 8, 2025

Are you based in Switzerland and involved in developing software to advance research? For example, are you a PhD student, researcher or professional software developer? Or do you plan to become an RSE? Do you manage a group of Research Software Engineers? If so, please help us by filling out the survey.

The RSE4ORD project created this survey to gain a better understanding of the current RSE landscape in Switzerland and its needs.

Career-focused DevExchange in WSL

August 28, 2025

Inspired by a similar event at EAWAG, we held an internal Career-focused DevExchange event at WSL. We had 4 research software engineers among ourselves highlighting their career paths so far and their expectations and experiences with software engineering at WSL. We also discussed the possibilities that they see for an improvement in software engineering at WSL.

Our Event Story

• Welcome and Agenda: Ionut Iosifescu Enescu
• Presentations
  • Enikö Fey
  • Ranita Pal
  • Dominik Haas
  • Christoph Tellenbach
• Discussions

How our event ran

We had some very interesting presentations from colleagues who have backgrounds in industry and academia. Each of the speakers presented a bit of their life’s journey prior to becoming a Research software engineer and how their path led them to their careers today. The driving factors for their careers turned out to be pretty diverse - forests, data management, design and coding.