# 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