Steering Committee Meeting No. 17

[nrmay]

Meeting Details:

Chair: Manodeep Sinha

Date: Tues. 22nd June 2021

Time:

• Auckland, New Zealand: 4:00 pm (NZST)
• Brisbane, Australia: 2:00 pm (AEST)
• Melbourne, Australia: 2:00 pm {AEST)
• Perth, Australia: 12:00 noon (AWST)

Meeting link: Join Zoom Meeting

• Meeting ID: 837 9361 3644
• Password: 588320

Proposed Agenda:

1. Approval of Minutes:

• Minutes from Meeting No. 16

2. Discussion with Invited Guest (Tom Honeyman)

• National Software Agenda
• Questions for Discussion about The Agenda
• C3DIS Sessions:
  • A National Approach to Research Software
  • Metrics for Measuring the Contributions of RSEs

3. Actions From Previous Minutes:

• [NL] Follow up with the candidate for a Casual Vacancy and arrange to have them submit an entry in the nominations page.
• [NM] Set-up the staging server for the website: http://staging.rse-aunz.github.io
• [NM] Add completed posts and events to the staging server.
• [JB,MS] Submit an abstract for a BoF at C3DIS.
• [All] Outstanding Website Posts.

4. Website

Folder and template for draft website posts: Website Posts

P2. Draft posts for events:

• [NL] Featured on RSE Stories: Equal Footing
• [NM] NeSI story about NZ RSE Conference.

P3. Create posts for the website about outputs/results from the following:

• [HP] Oversee post: Workshop and BoF at eResAus 2019
• [NL] Oversee post: eResNZ 2020

P4. Create posts about the outcomes of RSE sessions at eResAu 2020.

• [NL] Oral Presentation - Research software engineers : Creating a community and an identity within complex research ecosystems
• [RL] BoF session - Training - in progress
• [NM] BoF session - Best Practice for FAIR and Sustainable Research Software

5. Any Other Business

• Proposed next meeting: 2pm (AEST) on Tues. 27th July, 2021.

[manodeep]

Another item for the agenda:

• Update researchsoftware.org and move RSE-AUNZ into a mature entity. Ben van Werkhoven advised that this can be done by a PR