- Tue 10 October 2023
- Events
- Ankur Sinha
- #Meeting logs, #Community

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These are the meeting logs (and additional progress notes) from the Software WG meeting that was held on 09th October 2023. The next progress meeting will be held in November. For any clarifications and suggestions, please open a new ticket.
Attendees⋆
- Marcel Stimberg
- Ankur Sinha
Regrets:
- Shailesh Appukuttan
Agenda⋆
- Introductions, get to know each other
- Announcements
- CNS 2024 will be in Natal, Brazil. July 20-24, 2024: https://www.cnsorg.org/cns-2024
- Task force updates
- Simselect
- Cookbook
- Ideas for more sessions (tutorials/spotlights/dev sessions)
- OCNS Director elections: self nominations are open till 11th October
Minutes⋆
Tasks from last meeting⋆
- No tasks from last meeting
Task force updates⋆
Simselect⋆
- v0.1 prototype live at: https://simselect.fly.dev/project_browser
- meets every two weeks on Wednesday at 1300 UTC (see this ticket for announcements)
- consolidated notes are here: https://hackmd.io/LWjtz9ykQbm7yg5X_RKpCQ
- working on next version
- looking for more people to get involved to
- help with the design of the next iteration
- help us understand how to best display data
- help with implementation
- help with testing
- provide feedback on all updates to the application
- ACTION: Ankur e-mail list calling for more participation
Cookbook⋆
- lives at https://ocns.github.io/CompNeuroCookBook/index.html
- open for more contributions
- if you have a code snippet you use regularly, please share it with the community
- how to contribute: https://ocns.github.io/CompNeuroCookBook/Contributing.html
OCNS elections⋆
- Candidate nominations are still open, there’s still time to nominate yourself: https://www.cnsorg.org/election-procedures
Other discussion⋆
Satellite tutorials in 2023/2024⋆
- not sure if a week of online tutorials is the best format, given our experience in 2021
Replication challenge⋆
- Similar to the ML replication challenge
- Replicate published models
- Submit to rescience-c for review + publication
- Will involve lots of community members, who already replicate existing models in their projects
- Will involve simulator developers who can help people with their specific questions
- Fits in with both INCF/OCNS goals
- ACTION: Ankur mail OCNS/INCF, software wg, and simulator developers to get feedback on idea
- ACTION: Ankur open ticket to collect feedback