What for?
Programming: highly satisfying activity as you think it works, after
having spent days when it was almost working, and before you realize
it does not actually work that well… — Gérard Berry
Sounds familiar? Let’s talk about it at the Developer meetup!

For everybody, once a month, for one hour at 4pm, building C 5th
floor, cakes and coffee provided!
- Build a local community of coders with all kinds of skills and backgrounds,
- Share our favourite tricks and tools, success and horror stories, etc…
- Gather good coding habits and practices
Send propositions, wishes and remarks to
sed-pro@inria.fr
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Session #30: 29 Janvier 2026
Posted on January 9, 2026
| SED Paris
Session spéciale autour de Guix. Invités :
- Guix: un gestionnaire de paquets avec un fort accent sur la reproductibilité et le contrôle des environnements logiciel, Ludovic Courtès (SED Bordeaux).
- Cas d’usage et retours d’expérience avec Guix, Ghislain Vaillant (SED Paris), Sébastien Gilles (SED Saclay), Julien Vanharen (EP GammaO).
- Guixifying workflow management system: past, present, maybe future?, Simon Tournier (UPCité)
Session #29: 25 Mars 2025
Posted on February 25, 2025
| SED Paris
Talks:
- aider: AI pair programming in your terminal, Romain PRIMET (PROSECCO)
- SurvivalGPU : a GPU-powered library for scalable survival analysis in R and Python, Antoine POIROT-BOURDAIN (HeKA)
Session #28: 12 November 2024
Posted on October 25, 2024
| SED Paris
Talks:
- Tools for managing the Catala project, Denis MERIGOUX (PROSECCO)
- Some alternatives for the Anaconda Channel, Mauricio DIAZ (SED)
- Managing dependencies in a reproductible way with Pixi, Joris VAILLANT (WILLOW)
Session #27: 17 September 2024
Posted on August 30, 2024
| SED Paris
Talks:
- Parallelism with Thread Pools, Arthur DESBOIS (NERV) (pdf)
- Impactful documentation with Diátaxis, Ghislain VAILLANT (SED, HeKA) (pdf)
- Introduction to nb: a command line tool for note-taking, Kim Tâm HUYNH (SED) (pdf, md)
Session #26: 28 May 2024
Posted on May 7, 2024
| SED Paris
Talks:
- Using CLEPS to run Ollama (server for large language models), Thierry Martinez (SED/QAT) (slides)
- Code generation with CMake, Christina Katsamaki (OURAGAN) (demo)
- How Guix uses Software Heritage for reproducibility, David Douard (SWH) (slides)
Session #25: 16 April 2024
Posted on April 8, 2024
| SED Paris
Talks:
- Optimize your allocations on CLEPS, Simon Legrand (SED) (slides)
- An introduction to Kubernetes, Sacha Bernheim (QAT) (slides).
- Using Vale to improve your project documentation, Mauricio Diaz (SED) (slides)
Session #24: 19 March 2024
Posted on March 8, 2024
| SED Paris
This developer meetup will take place exceptionally in room
Jacques-Louis Lions 2, Inria Building C, ground floor.
Talks:
- Structural pattern matching in Python: a reconstruction, Thierry Martinez (SED/QAT) (slides)
- Parallelization and distribution on CLEPS with Julia, Francesco Arzani (QAT)
- Using Github Classrooms for recruitment, Nicolas Gensollen (SED/ARAMIS)
Session #23: 20 February 2024
Posted on February 2, 2024
| SED Paris
Talks:
- Using Bazel for building and testing C++/Python projects, Stéphane Caron (Willow) (slides)
- Tracy: un outil pour le profiling de code a la nanoseconde, Wilson Jallet (Willow) (slides)
- Faer-rs, a linear algebra foundation for the Rust programming language, Sarah El Kazdadi
Session #22: 23 January 2024
Posted on December 5, 2023
| SED Paris
Talks:
- The brand new Gitlab-CI Gallery, Kim-Tâm Huynh (SED). (link)
- Typst: finally, a well-designed LaTeX replacement?, Louis Gesbert (PROSECCO). (slides)
- Towards consistent commit messages and automated version bumps and changelog generation with Commitizen, Ghislain Vaillant (SED/HEKA). (slides)
Session #21: 30 May 2023
Posted on May 24, 2023
| SED Paris
Talks:
- You don’t need chezmoi to feel at home, Pierre-Guillaume Raverdy (SED)
- Algebraic effects with OCaml 5, Florian Angeletti (InriaSoft/SED)
- jobqueue: job stealing everywhere, Thierry Martinez (SED)