Community Update (Week 12/2024)

Lunch break at Py4AI in sunny Pavia, Italy

Happy spring!

A lot has happened since our last update:

• We’ve had a chance to join a number of meetups and conferences to present OSSci and further broaden our network. Particularly noteworthy were deRSE ’24, the annual gathering of the German RSE (research software engineer) community, and Py4AI, the inaugural PyData event focused on Python and artificial intelligence developers in Italy.
• Our first annual report is coming together nicely. Stay tuned!
• Our interest groups now have 300 (non-unique) members between them, growing at about 1% per week.
• It’s taken a bit longer than planned, but our interest groups are starting to produce tangible output. Our Chemistry IG is currently preparing living documents to collect tools and resources for reaction prediction and foundation models in chemistry. Our Climate and Sustainability IG is starting to explore the physics-informed machine learning space and will have a shared doc soon to support this effort. And our Life Sciences IG is coming out with a shared doc soon to support its efforts to better understand the wider ecosystem of organizations and communities supporting open source. Each group is looking for additional collaborators, and now is a great time to join.

Events

We are looking for reporters and ambassadors to be our eyes and ears at conferences and events we are unable to attend ourselves. Get in touch if you’d like to lear more.

Below the list of events we’re tracking for the next three months. For the full list, check out our event radar.

✅ = OSSci attending in person
📺 = OSSci attending remotely
📝 = Session proposal submitted

Meetups

We are working out the details for the next round of meetups with events being planned in the following cities:

• Prague, Czech Republic
• Cologne, Germany
• Munich, Germany
• Seattle, WA
• Vienna, Austria
• Paris, France

If you’d like to us to present at your meetup or co-organize an event, please get in touch. Thanks!

Conferences etc.

• KubeCon Europe, March 19–22, 2024 in Paris (France)
• Applied Machine Learning Days (AMLD EPFL), March 23–26, 2024 in Lausanne (Switzerland)
• EGU General Assembly 24, April 14–19, 2024 in Vienna (Austria) + online
• Open Source Summit North America 2024, April 16–18 in Seattle, WA ✅
• PyConDE & PyData Berlin, April 22–24, 2024 in Berlin (Germany) ✅
• OMSF Symposium 2024, May 16–17, 2024 in Leiden (Netherlands)
• Paris Open Science, May 23–25, 2024 in Paris (France)
• PyCon Italy, May 22–25, 2024 in Florence (Italy) ✅
• Re:publica, May 27–29, 2024 in Berlin (Germany)
• Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) Conference, June 3–5, 2024 in Zurich (Switzerland)
• PyData London 2024, June 14–16, 2024 in London (United Kingdom) ✅
• 2024 ACM Conference on Reproducibility and Replicability (ACM REP ’24), June 18–20, 2024 in Rennes (France) ✅
• AI_dev Europe 2024, June 19–20, 2024 in Paris (France) ✅