Fabian Garza at SC24 Atlanta, Georgia, USA. What is your role, and what does it involve day to day? I joined ARC as a Senior Research Infrastructure Developer two years ago. My workday is pretty varied, which is one of the reasons I enjoy it so much. There’s a balance between managing projects, learning new […]

I have experienced conferences before; I have experienced developer workshops; I have also experienced small meetups; what I never had experienced was FOSDEM, or the way I see it, Comic-Con for open-source people. FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Developers’ European Meeting) is an annual event organized by and for people involved with open-source software in […]

My first FOSDEM has come and gone, and what a whirlwind it was! Over 8,000 attendees, more than 1,000 talks, and 70 parallel tracks—all squeezed into two intense days, where no matter where you stood, you were never more than five minutes away from a place serving strong Belgian beer. It’s an overwhelming, exhilarating, and […]

It’s… Huge. On the 1st and 2nd of February, 11 of our team went to the Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting. This is an epic two-day conference with over 1000 talks (and something like 8,000 attendees) hosted in Brussels. It’s really huge. It’s so huge, in fact, that there are a good […]

Authors: Phoebe Whitley, Connor Creasey, Ash Oza, Stephen Thompson Keyhole surgery benefits the patient by reducing scarring, shortening the hospital stay, and reducing post operative pain. However, keyhole surgery is more difficult to perform partly because the surgeon can only see a small part of the anatomy at any one time. This “limited field of […]

What’s in a name? Electronic Healthcare Records are a vital source of data for a wide range of research, ranging from the implementation of new medical devices to the investigation of cures for disease. However, this data cannot just be made available to anyone, a written request must be vetted and approved, appropriate data must […]

This article proposes aligning the language of the original Agile Manifesto – written over 20 years ago, for software development in a commercial setting – with our current context of digital research projects involving research software engineering, data science, data stewardship, and research infrastructure development. This work was inspired by discussion about the wording of […]

What? At ARC I think it would be fair to say we strive to develop and improve not only on an individual level, but also on a group level. One of the ways we are doing this is through our RSE (Research Software Engineer) Initiatives – aiming to advance/evolve the RSE team to improve collaboration […]

When time is scarce on a research project, it is important to continuously plan and effectively collaborate with the whole team. A good example of this is the DiRAC project, Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in 3d Models of Fermions with Prof Simon Hands (PI) which, due to a funding deadline, had to be delivered in 5 […]

Blender is a free and open-source software for 3D geometry rendering. Uses include modelling, simulation, animation, virtual reality applications, and more recently synthetic datasets generation. This last application is of particular interest in the field of medical imaging, where often there is limited real data that can be used to train machine learning models. By […]