Community & Outreach: Many researchers or developers in the role of an RSE work in silos and the Community & Outreach area of URSSI would connect them to peers and provide access to beneficial material, resources, and contacts to improve this situation. Community engagement would include one-way communication such as a website, blogs and newsletters, two-way communications for discussions such as webinars and online discussion forums as well as face-to-face meetings in the form of workshops. In addition, this area will include a fellows program to support work done by community members that benefits URSSI activities.
Section 1.4, item 4, “Community…”: Maybe say something about the fact that RSE has achieved some major successes simply through working together as a community (I’m thinking things like the huge increase in access to RSE that’s come about from the rise of RSE Groups in the UK – from 1 university in 2013 to 28 now). I’d also recast “one-way communication” as “scalable communications” – it’s more positive.
Community & Outreach: Many researchers or developers in the role of an RSE work in silos and the Community & Outreach area of URSSI would connect them to peers and provide access to beneficial material, resources, and contacts to improve this situation. Community engagement would include one-way communication such as a website, blogs and newsletters, two-way communications for discussions such as webinars and online discussion forums as well as face-to-face meetings in the form of workshops. In addition, this area will include a fellows program to support work done by community members that benefits URSSI activities.