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# Bi-monthly Roundup 2025/05/21

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- **Date:** May 21, 2025 @ 12 pm EST ([view in your timezone](https://arewemeetingyet.com/New%20York/2025-05-21/12:00/NiPreps%20Bi-monthly%20Roundup#eyJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3VuaWwuem9vbS51cy9qLzk0MDY0MTIyNzA3P3B3ZD1VV04wTUN0a1VETlZPSEo2Tkd4NmJuRnFNbU5QUVQwOSJ9))
- **Participants:** OE, CM, BP, JHL, CG, CP, MN, TS, MG, EM, EE, FM, GN, PT

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## Agenda

1. NSC members extension (2 more members)
    * Announcement https://github.com/nipreps/GOVERNANCE/issues/47
    * Nominations through May 28, 2025 at 23.59 CEST
    * Final election June 18 or earlier.
1. Hackathon comments / summary
1. Process of growing new "-Prep" (T1Prep)
1. Project updates
    * Need for adding some geolocation into migas
    * fMRIPrep 25.1 imminent. LTS candidate.
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## Notes

### NSC members extension (two more members)
* Oscar is introducing the plan for the nominations and election. Please consider it and self nominate. 

### Hackathon comments / summary
* Oscar is providing a summary. We met in Boston end of April / beginning of May
* Focused on a few projects, particularly fMRI-post framework and extensions (Rapidtide and Tedana), NiFreeze, PETPrep/PETQC. 
* Eric Earl asking about whether the hackathon is an annual thing, or whether this is a one time thing. We hope that it will continue but will depend on the funding available. Guiomar mentioning a potential funding solution to support this with the recent awarded COST action on Neuroimaging Data Sharing.  


### Process of growing a new "-Prep" (T1Prep)
* Christian Gaser, main developer of CAT12 (https://github.com/ChristianGaser/cat12), is interested in adapting CAT12 into a T1Prep that can handle the processing of anatomical data.
* We should work towards defining a roadmap for how it could potentially be included, and how it would live together with sMRIprep.
* CAT12 won't work on rodents, but there are collaborations for working with non-human primates (Julich).
    * There's an rSPM toolbox for rodents (in MATLAB as well).
* Links:
    * CAT12: https://neuro-jena.github.io/cat/
    * CAT12 paper: https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giae049
    * Manual: https://neuro-jena.github.io/cat12-help
    * Enigma Pipeline: https://neuro-jena.github.io/enigma-cat12/
    * QC paper: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.28.640096
    * T1Prep: https://github.com/ChristianGaser/T1Prep
* Should work with T1 and T2.
* What about sMRIPost-CAT12? Or sMRIPrep-CAT12?

### Project updates
* Want to add geolocation to our telemetry pipeline (migas)
    * Examples from Dandi: 
        * https://dandi.github.io/access-page
        * https://github.com/dandi/s3-log-extraction
* ASLPrep local hackathon. Taylor providing a short summary.
* How to start a new NIPrep app

