This is a crosspost from RSE – Daniel S. Katz's blog, . See the original post here.
[Note: In December 2021, I decided to write down my experiences with the founding of US-RSE. Vanessa Sochat convinced me that it would make more sense for all interested US-RSE members to write a collective post, which we have now done as https://us-rse.org/2022-02-06-a-brief-history-of-usrse/. So much of this blog post overlaps that one, but some of … Continue reading A kind-of brief (and personal) early history of US-RSE