# Software WG meeting: Monday 14 February 2023

## Attendees

0800

- Shailesh Appukuttan
- Ankur Sinha

1700

- Ankur Sinha
- Marcel Stimberg
- Chitaranjan Mohaptra

## Agenda

https://github.com/OCNS/SoftwareWG/issues/126

- plans for CNS2023 (if any)
- https://github.com/OCNS/SoftwareWG/issues/125
- (Shailesh): about having a new co-chair to replace myself. I have been finding it difficult in recent months to devote much time to the admin activities of the group, and it would therefore be useful to have someone else step-up and help manage the WG. I will naturally continue to contribute as a member of the WG. Forming the task forces (for the two ongoing tasks) was a nice example of how some of the workload could be distributed and managed.
- CoC
- https://github.com/OCNS/SoftwareWG/issues/123
- Task force updates

## Notes

- CNS2023: do not do satellite tutorials this year
- continue with dev sessions and software highlights
- if/when possible, do more things of general interest
- reproducibility
- model visualisation
- etc.
- ACTION: Ankur mention in notifications that we're looking for a new co-chair
- if we do have lots of candidates, we can consider an election
- CoC:
- point to OCNS CoC
- let co-chairs be in-charge of enforcement, with possibility of reaching out to externals when necessary
- Task force updates
- Simselect: lots of steady progress
- core team meets every two weeks
- agreement on database/data description
- consensus on general idea of what the resource needs to look like
- at stage where prototyping is required to flesh out more details
- Guidelines task force
- no sense in writing another programming guide etc, which already exist in plenty
- needs to be something that addresses a niche that the softwareWG has expertise in
- Replace with something like an informal cookbook that includes useful tips/tricks/snippets that can be used in computational neuroscience
- See, for example: https://web.archive.org/web/20170227062636/http://neuralensemble.org/cookbook/