# INCF/OCNS Software WG meeting: Feb 14 0800 UTC

Minutes from last meeting (January) are published on the blog here:

https://ocns.github.io/SoftwareWG/2022/02/04/wg-meeting-10-january-2022.html

## Attendees

- Ankur Sinha (University College London)
- Malin Sandström (INCF)
- Akash Mishra (Independent Researcher)
- Felix B. Kern (University of Tokyo)

### Regrets

- Shailesh Appukuttan (on leave)

## Preset agenda

- https://github.com/OCNS/SoftwareWG/issues/59
- update on tutorial survey form
- CNS 2022 tutorial preparation
- making the WG more diverse
- workshop for the INCF Assembly (deadline Feb 28)

## Tutorial survey form

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

## CNS 2022 tutorials

- Come up with page that lists various tools and their use cases/features?

- Malin will speak to Fleur about topics/syllabus for the tutorial

- Idea: keep tutorial tool agnostic? Then feed into different simulator specific tutorials?

- For example: HH tutorial in Python: https://hodgkin-huxley-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

- https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_ktb-bPY=/ - NeuroTech mindmap, add tools section to the CompNeuro bits

- NMA probably happen in July again: https://academy.neuromatch.io/

- Need to figure out what it is we want to teach before we can come up with a syllabus and assign tasks.
- 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

## WG diversity

- https://github.com/OCNS/SoftwareWG/issues/58

- 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](https://www.outreachy.org/): can get money from Wellcome

- Brainhack, and *all* other communities that we can connect with

## INCF Assembly workshop

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

- Adopt some of the existing ideas and best practices in DevOps to Neuroscience data lifecycle

- 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

- TODO: ask wg members to add more ideas here

## Next meeting

March 14 2022 - 1700 UTC