Regrets⋆

• Shailesh Appukuttan (on leave)

Tutorial survey form⋆

We’ve been working on the tutorials survey form. This is a work in progress, and the discussion can be seen on this GitHub ticket:

https://github.com/OCNS/SoftwareWG/issues/57

It is expected to be sent out to various mailing lists early next week, and the results to be discussed at the next WG progress meeting.

CNS 2022 tutorials⋆

Tutorials at CNS*2022 have been announced, with the submission deadline on 15th of April. We discussed what tutorials we, the working group, can organise.

• Malin will speak to Fleur about topics/syllabus for the tutorial.
• An idea is to keep tutorials tool agnostic, and then feed into different simulator specific tutorials.
  • For example: HH tutorial in Python: https://hodgkin-huxley-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
• Neuromatch Academy (NMA) probably happen in July again: https://academy.neuromatch.io/
• We need to figure out what it is we want to teach before we can come up with a syllabus and assign tasks.
  • Ideally, we want to find a sweet spot that avoids both generic computational neuroscience teaching and generic tool basics.
• A repeat of last year’s tutorials may be acceptable.

Additionally:

• We discussed setting up a resource that lists various tools and their use cases/features. The aim is to give users a quick way to find the appropriate tool for their task.
• There’s the NeuroTech mind map, and we should add a tools section to the CompNeuro bits:
  • https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_ktb-bPY=/

WG diversity⋆

• https://github.com/OCNS/SoftwareWG/issues/58
• We will reach out to neuroscience groups on Discord and Reddit and get some of the members involved in OCNS to increase our diversity.
  • We could try to recruit from computational neuroscience communities with more diversity, like Neuromatch.
  • Outreachy: where we can get stipends for candidates from the Wellcome Trust.
  • Brainhack, and all other communities that we can connect with.

INCF Assembly workshop⋆

https://www.incf.org/blog/call-incf-assembly-workshop-themes

• Idea: adopt some of the existing ideas and best practices in DevOps to Neuroscience data life cycle
• propose birds of a feather sessions
  • diversity and inclusion
  • tool developers in neuroscience
  • education/training
• the INCF training weeks will happen separately for specific training sessions

Since the meeting, we have submitted two workshop proposals to the INCF Assembly:

• A session on increasing diversity and inclusion in Neuroscience/Neuroinformatics.
• A session showcasing software used in Neuroscience.