Steering Group minutes 2021/09/02

Date: Thursday, September 2, 2021

Topic	Relevant Links
New BIDS maintainer - Anthony Galassi
BIDS Steering Group elections in the Fall Switch chair? Discuss process Suggestion from previous meeting: Have candidates make statement about what they add to steering group, including diversity (broadly construed) PR from steering group to clarify candidate filtering process by existing steering group (KW) KW will be rotated out - will be invited back to give advice on specific topics (e.g. community development) From the governing structure: Initially, Steering Group members will be elected for staggered terms of 2/3/4 years, to allow continuity and overlap across years. This will ensure institutional knowledge is preserved within the BIDS Steering Group. In the initial BIDS Steering Group, there will be at least one non-MRI modality represented. -> One person drops after 1 year, 2 more after 2 and 2 more after 4.	https://bids.neuroimaging.io/governance.html#c-Governance-ratification-and-BIDS-Steering-Group-initialization
Writing up BIDS usage survey into blog post
BEP guidelines - recommend against student leading BEP if it is a requirement for graduation -> should maybe be added to governance? -> +1 preparing a BEP is okay, requiring acceptance is not
Stat-model discussion	https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bq5eNDHTb6Nkx3WUiOBgKvLNnaa5OMcGtD0AZ9yms2M/edit
BEP updates: Microscopy and NIRS on track for community review and incorporation in the Fall into Winter Another BEP was constructed and submitted without notifying Maintainers ( https://github.com/bids-standard/bids-specification/pull/850 )
MG: Update from SquishyMedia on the validator refactoring
MG: As modalities get more complicated - converters should be built to ease the forking and enhancing process	https://neurostars.org/t/repetitiontime-parameters-what-are-they-and-where-to-find-them/20020/8
Guest scheduling: October 14 - MIDS (BEP25) BEP leads joining	MIDS - BEP25: https://bids.neuroimaging.io/bep025