RSE Asia Australia Unconference 2022

We invite you to join us for the first online Research Software Engineer (RSE) Asia Australia Unconference from the 14th to the 16th of September 2022. This is a joint partnership between the newly formed RSE Asia Association and the RSE Association of Australia and New Zealand.

We would like to thank our Key partners ARDC and QCIF for supporting us, as well as our Accessibility partner, the Society for Research Software Engineering, and our Allied partners, NCI Australia and Google Cloud for researchers.

A copy of our report is available at “Mosbergen, Rowland (2022): Research Software Engineer Asia Australia Unconference Summary Report. figshare. Online resource. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.21201989”. This includes an accessible report in Microsoft Word format.

Check the video playlist with our keynotes and panel discussion https://tinyurl.com/RSEAA2022-videos.

What is a Research Software Engineer?

Research Software Engineer is a broad term for people who combine programming and research skills that have trouble defining their role and value within academia. e.g researchers and academics who code, generalists who bring communities together across the research and technical domains, systems administrators who maintain research systems, and software engineers who work in the research domain.

Why participate?

This will be run as a participant-first online unconference to ensure you have a say on how we develop the community and to allow you to share your valuable technical and social knowledge of research software with the community. In line with that, the theme for this year’s unconference is “Building community”.

Together, we can create a sustainable community that benefits research software engineers by raising recognition and building career paths for RSEs, and ultimately contributes to more efficient and reproducible research.

We also hope that this experience will identify ways to positively engage with senior leaders who are working on policies that directly affect you and the rest of the RSE community.

Register here

What is an unconference?

The unconference will run online over three half-days from 13:00 to 17:00 AEST on 14, 15 and 16 of September. An unconference is where the agenda is created by the attendees at the beginning of the meeting. Anyone who wants to initiate a discussion on a topic can claim a time and a space [1].

For this particular unconference, we will create breakout groups for the top three topics for each session. At the start of each day we will have an introduction session to provide the participants with some ideas on what they might want to discuss during the conference. We aim to summarise topics and make these available publicly after the unconference.

An overview of what the program will look like will be coming soon.

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference

Draft Programme

All times in UTC+10

  Day 1 - 14th September Day 2 - 15th September Day 3 - 16th September
1:00PM - 1:30PM Welcome, Vision, Explanation, and Partners Explain, Review Explain, Review
1:30PM - 2:00PM Early Career RSE keynote Mid Career RSE keynote Strategy & Policy Panel
2:00PM - 2:30PM Introductions to connect Second Session Strategy & Policy Panel
2:30PM - 3:00PM Introductions to connect Second Session Strategy & Policy Panel
3:00PM - 3:30PM Break Break Break
3:30PM - 4:00PM First Session Third Session Actionable items
4:00PM - 4:30PM First Session Third Session Actionable items
4:30PM - 5:00PM Early Career RSE keynote Review and discussion Close and thank you

Flyers

Panel RSE Asia Australia conference 2022 - building the research software community across Asia and Australia Keynotes of RSE Asia Australia conference 2022 - building the research software community across Asia and Australia

Key Dates

All dates combined to an .ics file for your Calendar App: RSEAA2022.ics

Registration

Registration is now open here.

Registration will close on the 7th of September 2022.

Accessibility and Inclusivity

We are committed to creating a safe, accessible, and inclusive environment for all participants.

To this end we are offering 50 scholarships for staff or students to participate for free, as well as a $50 AUD accessibility micro-grant to help with internet, headphones, childcare etc.

Eligibility for the scholarships will be based on prioritising and maximising the inclusion and participation of people who have been impacted due to the cumulative effects of discrimination on factors such as race, gender, disability, gender identity, financial status,and the intersectionality of that discrimination as well as others not mentioned here.

Eligibility for the accessibility micro-grants will be based on a similar approach.

Liz Hare has provided a high-level accessibility report for the conference.

How to apply for the scholarship and accessibility micro-grant

To apply for the scholarship, please email us at rse2022 at rse-aunz.org with the subject [Scholarship] and why you would like to attend for free and how this would benefit you and your organisation (200 words maximum).

To apply for the accessibility micro-grant, please email us at rse2022 at rse-aunz.org with the subject [Accessibility] and why you would like a micro-grant, how would you use it and how attending would benefit you (200 words maximum).

If you are applying for both, please email us separately.

We encourage participants to apply even if they do not think they are eligible as this will allow us to prioritise and maximise diversity and inclusion. All information will be treated in a confidential manner.

If you feel that the unconference is not matching up to the commitment of these ideals, please let us know by contacting the organising committee at rse2022 at rse-aunz.org.

The Code of Conduct is designed to provide all participants with community participation guidelines.

Partner with us

If your organisation would like to partner with us, there are still Allied partnerships available. To see how that would benefit your organisation, please see the Unconference Partner Prospectus.

Contact Us

If you would like to know more or have any questions, please contact the organising committee at rse2022 at rse-aunz.org by email.

Aligned Conferences & Events

September is full of RSE conferences around the world!

Download Flyer

The flyer can be downloaded here.

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For those who are interested, we invite you to the first online Research Software Engineer (RSE) Asia Australia Unconference from the 14th to the 16th of September 2022. This is a joint partnership between the newly formed RSE Asia Association and the RSE Association of Australia and New Zealand. We have made the costs low ($10 to $20 AUD) to attract a broader audience, and there are 50 scholarships available, as well as a $50 AUD accessibility micro-grant. Details here: https://rse-aunz.github.io/2022-Asia-Australia-unconference/

Key Partners

Accessibility Partner

Allied Partner