Meeting action items from Interim Steering Committee 23/03/2018

[rowlandm]

Hi All,

Agreements on Terms of Reference - Goal is to advocate for the RSE community by helping with the lack of career paths, place to ask for help generally and to help explain what RSEs do

Here are the action items in no particular order:

1. Agreement that the Train the Trainer with ANDS/Nectar/RDS to go ahead.

Tentative people to talk to around this - feel free to ask for help if you can't do this:
Amanda for Queensland
Craig for NSW
Bob for ACT
Need a Vic volunteer
No representation from WA, TAS or SA.

2. Provide a centralised place of position descriptions to help describe what RSEs do.
   2.1 Sam to get AeRO collation if it exists, same for CSIRO
   2.2 Suggested to capture the results of a "Explain what you do in one sentence" exercise in one place
   2.3 Manodeep to get the UK PD that came about from their work
   2.4 To also provide performance reporting and KPIs

3. Provide a centralised place to collect use cases, especially around academics getting credit, or institutions who are doing it well. eg Journal of Open Source Software

4. To diversify the interim committee to include more regional university based RSEs and more research focused RSEs. This was to be done by tapping into our professional networks.
   eg. Ira Cooke from JCU.

5. Create a centralised place to show where we can advertise and get the word out
   eg. CAUDIT, AeRO, eResearch, Questnet, via Intersect networks

6. Aim to have a vote for long term RSE committee at eResearch Australia - with video conferencing available.

[rowlandm]

In attendance

Rowland Mosbergen Victoria
Amanda Miotto Queensland
Manodeep Sinha Victoria
Anthony Truskinger Queensland
Heidi Perrett Queensland
Gerry Ryder ANDS/NECTAR/RDS
Gerhard Weis Queensland
Lance Wilson Victoria
Kerri Wait Victoria
Nicholas May Victoria
Sam Mowska Victoria
Craig Hamilton NSW
Bob Buckley ACT

[lancewilson-monash]

I can volunteer for the Vic train the trainer.

Lance

[rowlandm]

Can we please, for the moment, collect use cases and Position Descriptions in the two new issues that I just opened?