Publish your research!

Research is often payed by public money, so the results should be available to the public as well! - This demand is heard a lot and one of the good reasons to publish research software as open source software.
At GPN18 I gave a talk called "Publish your research! - Warum öffentlich finanzierte Forschung nicht veröffentlicht wird" which tries to give an overview why this is not happening. Attention: It's in German.

Reloaded: RocketScience and Software Engineering

In 2015 I gave two talks about Rocket Science and Software Engineering, focusing on all the things which went wrong in the history of space exploration due to software errors. (See this old blog post)
People likes these talks and so I got asked to give them again. So I updated them, tweaked them for the audiences and did what I was asked for. First as the keynote at the Swiss Python Summit and then at GPN18. Both talks were recorded and can be found online:

Swiss Python Summit: "Rocket Science and Software Engineering" (English)

GPN18: "Disintegrating Rockets - Softwarefehler in der Raumfahrt (und wie wir versuchen sie zu vermeiden)" (German)

Talk: RocketScience and Software Engineering - A retrospect [German]

On an event called "Jugend Hackt" (Youth Hacking) I was invited to give an extended lightning talk about software engineering in the field of rocket science. The kids really enjoyed the talk and so I decided to hold it again in a lecture series called "Datengarten" (data garden). You can find a video of the talk here, but attention: It's in german!