So, also a warm welcome from GFSET, the German Research Center for Geosciences in Germany. Just to let you know who we are, we are as well, we are the Germany's National Research Center for Solid Earth Sciences. We are as well a member of the Helmholtz Association and we maintain and run large

research infrastructures which is used by Germany's science community over 50% of its time. We are contributing to solving the grand challenges. So our mission is to deepen the knowledge of the solid earth dynamics and we contribute to the solutions for the challenges of society.

This includes the anticipation and mitigation of the consequences of natural hazards arising from earth dynamics and securing our habitat under the pressure of global change and we also have an eye on sustainable supply of energy and mineral resources for a growing

population. So our mission covers the system earth from core to space. That means we are drilling deep down into the earth and we also send satellites to space and we are looking mainly on the geosphere and a few other spheres which are

connected to it. This is as already mentioned a lot of times is a historic place. This is a map of the campus here around 1892 and in the left top corner you can see

that there's the Geodetic Institute which is some predecessor institute or organization that finally led to the GFX and in this Geodetic Institute for example there was the measurement of the absolute gravity which was the international reference value for over 60 years and we

also had the first tele-seismic record by Ernst von Raber-Pashwitz who was running a big pendulum here in this area and one morning he came back or he came to work and found this spike in the records and thought that this might have been a student that

has not been careful enough but there was also a second pendulum which exactly showed the same spike where he went a few days later and that made his eyes open and later on he read a nature publication about the big earthquake of Tokyo and then he finally made his

thoughts and produced the first nature paper from this location here about this first tele-seismic record. Since we are talking about history of course in this space in this location we have been also doing computing in the 70s with so-called super mini computers.

We use them for image analysis of remote sensing images by another predecessor institute the Central Institute for the Physics of the Earth. This time they have been using FORTRAN and I

was told that they also did a few 3D stuff with it. What we're doing today with computing and research software engineering is that everything started a bit before 2015 and then in 2015 we started with three software carpentry workshops because computing and

research software engineering is something that is integrated in all the scientific units at GVZ and also the other institutes at this campus and they are also supporting units IT units and the community at this hill at the telegraphenberg finally decided to run

three workshops in 2015 and since this time we try to run these workshops twice a year. We are a current member organization of the Carpentries. We also have made first experiences with hacky hours as well maintained and run by the community at the hill not only

by GVZ. Within GVZ we have also established let's say a loose network of research software engineers we call them an interest group so that those who are developing software are connected somehow and can exchange and we also have a working group here which is looking or we

were just looking at development software development and it's trying to provide guidelines and also some help by offering services and a few information about best practices about what to consider when it's up to research or to use it right when it's up to

which licenses should be used when it's up to commercialization open-source and all these sort of things which was quite new this year was that we had last month the first research software engineering job office which was quite unique for us in our administration and they

asked what this is and I prepared them that there might be more job offers over the next months and years and now we have the conference and we are happy that we are one of the hosting organizations together with the others so enjoy yourself over the next three days.