How can we improve participation in our events?⋆

• Shailesh/Thomas N (Software WG members on the OCNS Board) will poke the OCNS Board Social Media chair to share our sessions on OCNS accounts.
• We can balance user and developer related sessions.
• We can have a survey to gauge audience interest and topics
  • The survey needs to be short (2-3 minutes)
  • It should include a list of tutorials we can deliver
  • It should include a text box to allow people to make other suggestions
  • Shailesh to make survey form
  • Shailesh/Ankur send out to mailing lists

Apart from our regular dev talks, what other events to plan this coming year?⋆

• more user focussed events
• CNS tutorials

Notes/comments/discussion on the software citation principles dev session⋆

• Credit in software development is not as clear/established as in papers
• Could recommend citing both paper and exact version of software tools used (in methods)
• Zenodo does give you a DOI for “all versions”, but this links to latest
• Citation.cff on GitHub allows you to define multiple citations (preferred), but this needs to be done manually
• Software Heritage IDs: point to exact snapshots; more for archival and permanent URLs. For example: https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory/?origin_url=https://github.com/NeuralEnsemble/libNeuroML
• We can float the idea of Software Citation talk as part of primary conference program to OCNS Board

Preparation for CNS 2022⋆

• Prefer satellite tutorials before the conference (at least more than 2 days before so that folks aren’t travelling)
• try and keep it very very cheap to encourage student participation: preferably have different registration rates
• can disconnect from Sched etc. that are used for the main meeting if necessary

Making the working group more diverse⋆

• Reach out to people who may be able to help us get started
  • NEST folks
  • Sharon Crook
• Other links:
  • https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/26999/women-in-computational-neuroscience
  • https://www.alba.network/
    • Srikanth Ramaswamy (new OCNS Board member) is involved in this, could loop them in.
  • https://anneslist.net/
• Outreachy: https://www.outreachy.org/
  • Example (NeuroFedora): https://www.outreachy.org/outreachy-december-2021-internship-round/communities/fedora/#extend-and-improve-neurofedoras-user-consumable-ar
  • Usually hard because of dual requirements of technical and scientific knowledge
  • May work with less technical tasks: infrastructure/documentation

Jitsi⋆

Worked well, agree to continue using it for future meetings.