# Software WG meeting: Jan 10, 2022 Agenda: https://github.com/OCNS/SoftwareWG/issues/56 ## Attendees - Ankur Sinha (Silver Lab, UCL) - Shailesh Appukuttan (NeuroPSI, CNRS) - Thomas Nowotny (University of Sussex) - Joe Graham (SUNY Downstate) - James Knight (University of Sussex) - Marcel Stimberg (Sorbonne University, Paris, France) ## Meeting logs ### How we can improve participation for our events - Shailesh/Thomas N to poke the OCNS Board Social Media chair to share our sessions on OCNS accounts. - Balance user and developer related sessions. #### Survey to gauge audience interest and topics - Needs to be short (2-3 minutes) - Include list of tutorials we can deliver - Include text box to allow people to make other suggestions - Shailesh to make survey form - Shailesh/Ankur send out to mailing lists ### apart from our regular dev talks, what other events to plan this coming year - more user focussed events - CNS tutorials ### Notes/comments/discussion on the software citation principles dev session - Credit in software dev not as clear/established as in papers - Could ask to cite both paper and exact version (in methods) - Zenodo does give you a DOI for "all versions", but just links to latest - "Citation.cff" on GitHub allows you to define multiple citations (preferred), needs to be done manually - Software Heritage IDs: point to exact snapshots; more for archival and permanent URLs. For example: https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory/?origin_url=https://github.com/NeuralEnsemble/libNeuroML - Float idea of Software Citation talk as part of primary conference program to OCNS Board ### Preparation for CNS 2022 - Prefer satellite tutorials before the conference (at least more than 2 days before so that folks aren't travelling) - try and keep it very very cheap to encourage student participation: preferably have different registration rates - can disconnect from Sched etc. that are used for the main meeting if necessary ### Making the working group more diverse - Reach out to people who may be able to help us get started - NEST folks - Sharon Crook - Other links: - https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/26999/women-in-computational-neuroscience - https://www.alba.network/ - Srikanth Ramaswamy (new Board member) is invovled in this, could loop them in. - https://anneslist.net/ - Outreachy: https://www.outreachy.org/ - Example (NeuroFedora): https://www.outreachy.org/outreachy-december-2021-internship-round/communities/fedora/#extend-and-improve-neurofedoras-user-consumable-ar - Usually hard because of dual requirements of technical and scientific knowledge - May work with less technical tasks: infra/documentation/etc. ### Jitsi Worked well, agree to continue using it for future meetings.