Attendees⋆

0800

• Shailesh Appukuttan
• Ankur Sinha

1700

• Ankur Sinha
• Marcel Stimberg
• Chitaranjan Mohaptra

Agenda⋆

https://github.com/OCNS/SoftwareWG/issues/126

• plans for CNS2023 (if any)
  • https://github.com/OCNS/SoftwareWG/issues/125
• (Shailesh): about having a new co-chair to replace myself. I have been finding it difficult in recent months to devote much time to the admin activities of the group, and it would therefore be useful to have someone else step-up and help manage the WG. I will naturally continue to contribute as a member of the WG. Forming the task forces (for the two ongoing tasks) was a nice example of how some of the workload could be distributed and managed.
• Code of Conduct
  • https://github.com/OCNS/SoftwareWG/issues/123
• Task force updates

Notes⋆

• CNS2023: do not do satellite tutorials this year
  • continue with dev sessions and software highlights
  • if/when possible, do more things of general interest
    • reproducibility
    • model visualisation
    • etc.
  • ACTION: Ankur comment on ticket with updates (DONE)
    • See: ticket
• ACTION: Ankur mention in notifications that we’re looking for a new co-chair
  • if we do have lots of candidates, we can consider an election
• Code of Conduct:
  • point to OCNS Code of Conduct
  • let co-chairs be in-charge of enforcement, with possibility of reaching out to externals when necessary
  • ACTION: Ankur update website (DONE)
• Task force updates
  • Simselect: lots of steady progress
    • core team meets every two weeks
    • agreement on database/data description
    • consensus on general idea of what the resource needs to look like
    • at stage where prototyping is required to flesh out more details
    • more information on ticket: https://github.com/OCNS/SoftwareWG/issues/117
  • Guidelines task force
    • no sense in writing another programming guide etc., which already exist in plenty
    • needs to be something that addresses a niche that the Software WG has expertise in
    • replace with something like an informal cookbook that includes useful tips/tricks/snippets that can be used in computational neuroscience
      • See, for example: https://web.archive.org/web/20170227062636/http://neuralensemble.org/cookbook/
    • ACTION: Ankur comment on ticket suggesting we (DONE):
      • add section on “guidelines” to the resources page on our website
      • close ticket
      • suggest “cook book” instead of guidelines