Collaborations Workshop 2026
2026-06-09
Paddy
- Third Collaborations Workshop.
- The unlikely weather was welcome.
- Belfast is a good place to run.
- Enjoy a good mural.
- Discussion session was a about good practices for AI-generated software.
- Collaborative idea was about better education on how to perform a good code review.
- Hack day https://github.com/green-actions . A tool to compute the action usage for a given repository.
Duncan
- Second Collaborations Workshop.
- Belfast has a great vibe - many murals and live music everywhere!
- Ample welcome opportunities for large animal photos.
- Conference itself
- Speed blog: Can AI ever be ‘Green’?
- Collaborative idea sessions: Domain2RSE
- Framework to help guide conversations between domain experts and RSE
- Hack day: Green actions
Hollie
- Second Collaborations Workshop
- My first time in N.Ireland
- Austin joined me after the conference for the bank holiday weekend
- Collaborative Ideas Day was a lot of fun!
- Third place prize for ‘ACT Skills’, promoting research community management skills among young people
- Joined up with similar group from Collab Ideas Day that got shortlisted for the Hack Day
- First place prize for Community Supporter Compass, online quiz asking: ‘what type of community supporter are you?’
- Did Giant’s Causeway while Belfast marathon was on, Street Art Festival, Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival screening of Battlefield Earth
Connor
- Nice first day
- Ran to Belfast castle, walked up Cavehill, pizza and cinema.
- Back to the Fortran Future Workshop
- Funding advice and Met office collaboration
- Unconference
- Came third in the Discussion Sessions
- Poetic computing
- Came Third in hack day working on Fortran course
- Final day
- Peace walls, botanic gardens, Ulster museum and hot chocolate
Sofía
- First Collaborations Workshop
- Nice to meet the SSI Fellows Cohort of 2026 in person 🤓
- The fellowship is to work further on the Charlas RSE en español
- Meet some lovely people!
- Led a mini-workshop with Salma Thalji on multilingualism in the RSE world 🗺️🗣️ (and went together to a Rosalía concert the following week)
- Hui Ling’s Git for researchers
- And caught up with ARCians 😍
- Excellent pubs were visited
- 2nd prize at HackDay with Up-Goer-Five project
- (no photographic evidence 😬)
