Newsletter July 2026

[yiquintero]

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[yiquintero]

Intro:
Mention no newsletter in August

Calendar:

• Title: Save the date! International RSE Day Event

• Title: Applications open for the Open Science NL Advisory Panels - until 11 September
  https://www.openscience.nl/en/news/share-your-expertise-with-open-science-nl-in-an-advisory-panel-0

News:

• Title: Registrations and abstracts submissions are open for DUCOMS 2026
  Link: https://www.computationalsciencenl.nl/en/ducoms-day-2026/

• Title: Registrations and abstract submissions open for SURF Advance Computing User Day 2026
  Link: https://www.surf.nl/en/agenda/advanced-computing-user-day

Blog posts:

• Title: A one day workshop on how to close down a software project, either deliberately or on short notice.
  Link: https://third-bit.com/closure/

• Title: AI-Usage Policies for contributions to open source software projects
  Link: https://allthingsopen.org/articles/open-source-ai-contributions-assisted-by-git-trailer-standard
  Link: https://github.com/melissawm/open-source-ai-contribution-policies

• Title: SSI Guide on Writing Energy Efficient Code
  Link: https://www.software.ac.uk/news/new-guide-writing-energy-efficient-code

[charliegreene9]

Section - Blog posts & tools
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autoMETAte, automate your metadata
Link
https://github.com/ubvu/autoMETAte
Short context (1–3 sentences)
Admin is boring and filling out metadata schemas is admin, so why don't we take that task off the ToDo list? The alpha version of autoMETAte - a tool that automatically creates a metadata file for software - is released and ready for feedback. Researchers went into research to to do science, not admin, let's help them focus on what they do best.

Let me know if you think the context is messy!

[FenneRiemslagh]

Section: Calendar (Calendar / News / Jobs / Blog posts & tools)
Title: Save the date for the next NL-RSE meet-up: 8th of October 2026
Link: N/A
Short context: International RSE day happens this year on Thursday 8th of October, and we will organize a NL-RSE meet-up to celebrate! The program will be from 1pm - 4pm, at the MATRIX ONE building at the Science Park in Amsterdam. We will have a couple of talks (including one from (Jannetta Steyn from the SSI)[https://www.software.ac.uk/fellowship-programme/jannetta-steyn]) and time to mingle. Please save the date and join us, registration link to follow in August!

[Safari1991]

Section - Calendar: October 7th, 2026
Title: 2nd Symposium on Accelerated Computing for Application Workflows (SACAW)
Link: https://www.surf.nl/en/agenda/2nd-symposium-on-accelerated-computing-for-application-workflows
Short context: Are you a researcher or developer looking to speed up your scientific application? Want to use GPUs for your research but do not know where to start? SURF and the Netherlands eScience Center invite you to a one-day event focused on connecting complex scientific code and GPU acceleration technology.