Organizational Membership

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The US Research Software Engineer Association (US-RSE)¹ is the leading professional community of research software engineering practitioners in the United States. US-RSE’s four-pronged mission aims to foster community, promote RSEs’ impact on research, provide useful resources, and encourage and improve diversity throughout the profession. US-RSE envisions a future where it plays an essential role in promoting RSEs to be universally respected for advancing science, technology, and society through the transformative power of research software engineering. The number of individual members of US-RSE has grown from about 20 in 2018 to over 3000 in 2024.

Pilot Phase: Become an Organizational Founding Member

On October 1, 2024, US-RSE will start the pilot phase of an organizational membership program, which will run through November 30, 2025. The pilot phase for organizational founding members will give organizations the opportunity to be recognized in perpetuity as founding members of US-RSE. Every organization joining on or before November 30, 2025 will be considered an organizational founding member. The annual membership fees (see Table 3) will remain the same for founding members until December 31, 2028. Organizations joining on or after December 1, 2025 are ineligible to become an organizational founding member.

Why support US-RSE?

US-RSE offers a variety of services to its individual and organizational members. Examples include:

• Our annual conference
  • The 2023 inaugural conference was a resounding success, selling out with 250 attendees.
  • For 2024 we aim for 300 participants.
• Monthly community calls
• A monthly newsletter
• 15 working groups and affinity groups
• Multiple virtual seminars series. Examples include
  • The DEI speaker series
  • The Education and Training speaker series
• A heavily visited and successful job board
• Creation of resources such as the
  • Career Guidebook in collaboration with the Academic Data Science Alliance (over 100 pages)
  • Career Guide Brochure for RSEs in collaboration with IEEE Computer Society (25 pages)

By joining US-RSE as an organizational member, you will ensure the continuation and expansion of these offerings.

Organizational Membership Duration

Organizational membership is defined per calendar year from January 1 to December 31. Organizations can join throughout the year with membership fees being reduced between August 1 and November 30 to 50% for the remainder of the year and reduced benefits as described below. Members joining on or after December 1 will be members the following year from January 1 with all benefits.

Benefits for Organizational Founding Members

Organizational Founding Members will be recognized with their logo on the US-RSE website, on conference material, and in annual reports. Organizational members benefit from opportunities to help shape US-RSE’s activities and strategic initiatives via quarterly meetings with the US-RSE Leadership including the Executive Director (ED), Community Manager (CM) and a subset of the elected Steering Committee (SC).

US-RSE’s organizational membership model has three tiers with different membership fees (see Table 3). As the second most visited page (after the homepage) on the website, the job board is highly successful, and Standard and Premier membership include highlighted job postings. Our annual conference is the flagship event for RSEs and allies in the United States, and Standard and Premier membership includes free registrations at the event (see Table 1 for the summary of benefits).

Organizations joining before August 1 in coming years receive all benefits for that year. For Standard and Premier members this includes benefits for the annual conference in the current calendar year. Organizations joining on or after August 1 but before December 1 pay half of the membership fee for the calendar year, but for Standard and Premier level will not receive conference-related benefits and will only receive half as many highlighted posts on the job board. They will have all other benefits including the remaining quarterly meetings with the US-RSE leadership group (see Table 2 for the summary of benefits). Organizations joining on or after December 1 receive the membership for the following year.

Annual General Meeting and Annual Report

US-RSE holds a virtual Annual General Meeting open to all individual and organizational members in December of each year. Organizational members will be acknowledged in the meeting. Organizational members will additionally receive an annual end-of-the-year report, which includes a directory of all organizational members.

US-RSE Organizational Membership is inclusive

US-RSE prioritizes diversity, equity, and inclusion through initiatives that cultivate a representative and inclusive RSE community. It aims at creating and maintaining a diverse workforce. The membership model is designed to give all interested organizations the possibility to become an organizational founding member if joining by December 1, 2025. Besides the benefits listed in Table 1 and Table 2, US-RSE provides the following opportunities:

• Organizations can gift annual memberships to other organizations.²
• A 5-year membership can be purchased for the price of a 4-year membership.

How to join?

If you would like to join, please contact our Executive Director, Sandra Gesing, at sandra@us-rse.org.

	Basic	Standard	Premier
Your organization’s logo listed on the US-RSE website, end-of-the-year report and annual conference website	✓	✓	✓
Members have exclusive access to use a specific branded US-RSE logo for organizational members3	✓	✓	✓
Quarterly members-only meetings with Executive Director and other representatives of the US-RSE leadership team	1 person	1 person	2 persons
Free attendees at annual US-RSE conference	-	1 person	2 persons
Highlighted positions in job board	-	2 per year	4 per year
A spotlight of an organizational member or a representative of an organizational member posted to the website linked via the newsletter	-	-	1 per year
Members can request promotional US-RSE stickers and brochures once per year4	20 brochures/50 special member stickers	100 brochures/200 special member stickers	100 brochures/200 special member stickers
Discount of 20% for sponsorship at conference	-	-	✓

Table 1: The benefits of the three tiers of the US-RSE organizational membership model for organizations joining between December 1 (year before) and July 31. If an organization joins on or after December 1, the official membership starts on January 1 and lasts until December 31 of the following year.

	Basic	Standard	Premier
Your logo listed on the US-RSE website, end-of-the-year report and annual conference website	✓	✓	✓
Quarterly members-only meetings with Executive Director and other representatives of the US-RSE Leadership	1 person	1 person	2 persons
Highlighted positions in job board	-	1 highlighted per year	2 highlighted per year
A spotlight of an organizational member or a representative of an organizational member posted to the website linked via the newsletter	-	-	1 per year
Members can request promotional US-RSE stickers and brochures once per year4	20 brochures/50 special member stickers	100 brochures/200 special member stickers	100 brochures/200 special member stickers

Table 2: The benefits of the three tiers of the US-RSE organizational membership model for organizations joining between August 1 and November 30.

	Basic	Standard	Premier
Academic (R1 and R2), national labs, non-profits, small companies (1-20 employees), foundations	$1000 per year	$2000 per year	$4000 per year
Academic (Not R1 or R2)	$500 per year	$1000 per year	$2000 per year
MSIs, HBCUs	$500 per year	$1000 per year	$2000 per year
Industry	Contact Executive Director5	$5000 per year	$10000 per year

Table 3: Membership fees

Current Organizational Founding Members

Standard Level