[Outsourcing] Success story of outsourcing an RSE department

[CaptainSifff]

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[CaptainSifff]

there are number of profitable university associated companies out there. As it stands all of them seem profitable. Why do these profits have to go outside? They seem to work, but it seems to be symptoms of a cancerous system...

[CaptainSifff]

https://cares.institute/

[dokempf]

https://heigit.org/de/willkommen/

[dokempf]

We are still looking for a "true success story". By "true" I here mean that it actually provided a benefit that it would not have had as an internal institution. If anyone happening to read this has one - please tell us about it.

[jngrad]

We could draw some inspiration from the HPC community, where HPC-RSEs are working at national competence centers (NCCs, full list) to provide training, consulting, networking for academic and industry actors. See e.g. NCC Germany which is affiliated to the Gauss Supercomputing Center or NCC Austria which can assist in writing funding proposals.

For more information, see their success stories booklets:

• Members of FF4EuroHPC Consortium, editor. FF4EuroHPC Success Stories. Arctur, Nova Gorica, Slovenia, 1st edition, November 2022. ISBN 978-961-94587-3-0. URL: https://www.ff4eurohpc.eu/mma/FF4HPC_booklet_spreads-web.pdf/2023013117273747/1675182457.
• Members of EuroCC Consortium, editor. EuroCC Success Stories. HLRS, Stuttgart, Germany, 1st edition, May 2023. URL: https://www.eurocc-access.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/EuroCC_booklet_2023_final.pdf.
• Members of Fortissimo Consortium, editor. Fortissimo Success Stories. EPCC and Arctur, Edinburgh, United Kingdom and Nova Gorica, Slovenia, 6th edition, January 2019. ISBN 978-961-94587-0-9. URL: https://www.ff4eurohpc.eu/mma/Fortissimo_SS_Booklet_web.pdf/2020101509292649/1602746967.

[mhagdorn]

I have spoken to a colleague of mine at the Charité who manages a large software project that is partly (maybe even to a large extend) outsourced. He is quite keen to contribute but I will need to prod him some more to find the time to actually do it.

[knarrff]

I am not quite sure if this would be a good fit. Specific software project aren't really the focus of the paper, but groups that provide a whole range of services to an entire organisation. What do the others think?

[knarrff]

We will not include an example, but the idea.