# INCF/OCNS Software WG meeting: 9 May, 2022

## Attendees

0800 UTC:

- Ankur Sinha
- Shailesh Appukuttan
- Stewart Heitmann

1700 UTC:

- Joe Graham
- Marcel Stimberg
- Charles Linssen

## Preset agenda

- https://github.com/OCNS/SoftwareWG/issues/90

### Updates on CNS * 2022 satellite tutorials

- https://github.com/OCNS/SoftwareWG/milestone/3

### General review of open tickets/discussions

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

## Minutes

### CNS * 2022 satellite tutorials

- ACTION: Ankur ping Elephant again: https://github.com/NeuralEnsemble/elephant/issues/484: DONE
- ACTION: Ankur ping Neurolib again: https://github.com/OCNS/SoftwareWG/issues/77: DONE
- ACTION: Ankur ping Eden again: DONE
- OCNS have no objections with sessions being repeated at online satellite tutorials
- ACTION: Ankur/Shailesh: update text on the website to say "as part of CNS" instead of "at CNS": https://ocns.github.io/SoftwareWG/pages/software-wg-satellite-tutorials-at-cns-2022.html: DONE
- ACTION: move July meeting(s) to first week: Avoid July 4, Holiday in US: DONE (moved a week earlier to July 06)
- ACTION: introduce WG in all satellite sessions: request presenters to do a quick blurb on WG to start with
- NEW session: Ankur: Containers 101 : 1.5 hours: Ticket opened: https://github.com/OCNS/SoftwareWG/issues/96
- start by showing traditional pyenv method
- pulling images
- creating images (including files from local file system)
- accessing local file system from container
- list of comp-neuro containers (NeuralEnsemble/NEST/NeuroFedora/etc.): ask everyone presenting a tutorial if they have container images
- set up web page for this on our website with initial information: people need to have docker/podman installed
- More sessions (if we have slots):
- Keras (3 hours)
- Catch22 (3 hours max?)
- Datalad (1.5 hours)
- PyNN (3 hours max)
- Fasttrack: less priority as does not fit comp-neuro theme
- Missingno + Pingouin + general analysis visualisation tools: maybe a tutorial later in the year
- MorphIO/MorphTool/NeuroM: session later in the year
- NWB ecosystem: do lots of userdays themselves, we can do a specific tutorial later in the year
- NiPy suite: also better to do a specific tutorial later in the year
- PETlink: skip for now, not comp-neuro
- Pyelectro: with NeuroML bits
- PyBIDS: maybe neuroimaging tutorial later
- PySpike: separate tutorial later in the year (correct typo elsewhere also: spike not spyke)
- Spiking circus: later (spike train analysis tutorial?)
- Allen tools, BMTK: full day tutorial later on
- BrainScaleS + Spinnaker: reach out for tutorial later (needs access to hardware)
- GENESIS?
- SciUnit/NeuronUnit: tutorial later
- STEPS: dedicated tutorial later
- ACTION: re-ping Thomas Nowotny about sending out the survey in next communication (check if it has been sent out yet), if no newsletter: being sent out in newsletter, so not required
- ACTION: Shailesh ping newsletter organisers (tentative newsletter in May): DONE
- ACTION: check if it was included in the INCF newsletter: Was in issue 1
- ACTION: reach out to confirmed tutorials to ask for:
- Duration (give slot options)
- preferred time
- web page link for session
- whether they need us to set up zoom meetings for them (preferable that they handle this themselves)
- strongly suggest recording (especially if there isn't a recording of their tutorial already): we will get these uploaded to the training space
- DEADLINE for confirmation: 20th (2 weeks)
- ACTION: end of next week (20th) send out e-mail to public lists about satellite tutorials ("save the date" with initial information)
- ACTION: Ankur drop comment on https://github.com/OCNS/SoftwareWG/issues/61 for ideas, if none, close next meeting: DONE
- ACTION: Ankur: same for https://github.com/OCNS/SoftwareWG/issues/62