# Software WG meeting: Thursday 19 September

## Attendees

0800

- Ankur Sinha (UCL/Open Source Brain/NeuroML)
- Dinara Issagaliyeva (INCF/Charite Universitätsmedizin Berlin)
- Malin Sandström (INCF)
- Shailesh Appukuttan (CNRS/EBRAINS)
- Chitaranjan Mahapatra (CNRS/EBRAINS)
- Stewart Heitmann (Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute)

1700

- Ankur Sinha
- Reema Gupta (LMU/In2PrimateBrains Consortium)

## Agenda

### Tasks from last meeting

- No pending tasks from last meeting (or to be discussed in their own topics)

### Updates from CNS 2022

- Stewart: software showcase (only one showcase this year)
- Relatively low turnout at Melbourne
- Will be good to see how next year at Leipzig is attended
- People seem to prefer learning in their own time rather than attend live tutorials---also because we're spending more time on documentation and improved video tutorials
- Showcases: excellent opportunity to quickly introduce tool to community
- Idea: include showcases in next year's sattelite tutorials (online)
- Question: will CNS2023 have an online component?

#### Brief update from the OCNS Board Meeting (Malin)

- discussing diversity
- satellite tutorials were good to improve diversity
- SIGs are good for DEI
- endorsement of tools
- good to do but don't have bandwidth
- sensitive issue: must focus on positives
- WG would be the logical place for endorsment
- guidelines (WIP): set of principles that everyone agrees on as required for a good tool
- page on picking tools, which lists featured (WIP)
- software prizes
- similar issues with not stepping on toes
- could have many prizes in many different categories to cover lots of different softwares
- best to set up a task force for longer WG activities that works intensively on the selected task (guidelines/form)
- incentives
- mention taskforce on CV
- learning/participation experience
- could be published in the F1000 INCF journal or pre-print/zenodo/etc.
- ACTION: Ankur send out e-mail to try and set up task forces for the two long running tasks
- NOTE: new guidelines/etc. must be kept up to date
- Also ask wider community for task force contributions
- Make DEI regular event at OCNS conference: Board positive response
- have a community development component at each annual conference
- DEI
- post-doc development
- software showcases
- grant applications
- software best-practices
- larger discussion that needs to be held at Board level

### Updates from bernstein conf

### Updates from INCF assembly

- videos publicly available before end of the year
- DEI sessions to be publicised widely
- need more time for DEI discussion
- good session for start
- lots of good points (but overlapping also)
- Gather: limitation: cannot directly record, had to use specific tool
- Ask INCF not to clash with Bernstein/other conference

### Satellite tutorials feedback form

- small data set
- people seem OK to pay a small amount
- see if we can find sponsors to reduce the token registration fee:
- lean on OCNS's contacts etc for sponsorship
- see how much INCF ended up paying for the platforms at the Assembly (Malin will see if this info is available)
- registration fee important to get better idea of actual attendence numbers.

## Other

- https://www.nitrc.org/ -> add to resources
- Guidelines: add use-cases as examples