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!

Developer meetups

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

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

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)
gpu  ai  llm  python 

Session #24: 19 March 2024

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 #22: 23 January 2024

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)