Steering Group minutes 2023/08/17

Date: Thursday, August 17th, 2023

Topic	Relevant Links
Neuro Open Science Prize: CFP ? Materials for 2023 submission:	https://www.mcgill.ca/neuro/open-science/open-science-awards-and-prizes/neuro-irv-and-helga-cooper-foundation-open-science-prizes https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1G9sOijuGGBovIy_M_-hSiETgoe2srj9g
BIDS at upcoming INCF training?	https://www.incf.org/incf-short-course-introduction-neuroinformatics-2023
http://www.bids-standard.org destiny	Russ posted about long time availability. Should we advocate switching or not?
BIDS at the upcoming SfN?	Opportunities: DANDI/NWB booth
BIDS 2.0 baby steps	https://github.com/orgs/bids-standard/projects/10
News from the maintainers	Ross: “Schema validator will be done in 3 weeks ;) ?“ Attempt to centralize list of converters, tools, BEPs, ... https://github.com/bids-standard/awesome-bids Inheritance problem again: https://github.com/bids-standard/bids-specification/issues/1583 Eric’s suggestion: “ several maintainers and steering group members for next week's schema hack ” Schema meeting: every thursday on GatherTown https://app.gather.town/app/ESJPNXX7CVirKett/nmind

Present: Ariel Rokem, Guiomar Niso, Robert Oostenveld, Yarsloav Halchenko, Remi Gau, Kim Ray

Guest: n/a

Templates for letters

BIDS Meeting Notes:

Neuro Open Science Prize

• Do we have the previous letters of support that were submitted?

• Who should we ask for letters?

  • We need 10 letters - new requirements is to identify 3 referees (submitted by sept 10)

    • Damien Fair, Peter Bandettini, EBrains? (Maurizio Corbetta, Katrin Amunts), Simon Eickhoff

    • [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gYfP1C84e1_81HPIGBbXl8v_Z3b43uCLGHBa0RhtnOM/edit#gid=0]{.underline}

  • We should ask individuals involved with larger projects to write on behalf of impact for their respective organizations ( DANDI, IBI, NIH, etc)

  • Ariel will lead the submission, the remaining BIDS steering group will be the additional applicants

BIDS at upcoming INCF training

• Yarik will be presenting at the upcoming INCF training course, how can BIDS be discussed?

• Franco Pestilli will also be presenting on data governance, can he touch on BIDS as well?

BIDS-Standard.org website

• Russ mentioned he’s been supporting the bids-standard.org web address

• Should BIDS migrate over to this new address? (and lose the neuroimaging.io part of the web address)

• Can provide pointers from old website to the new address

• Steering Group supports the move!

BIDS at the upcoming SfN

• Yarik will have a booth for DANDI and is happy to also support BIDS at the booth

• Are the promo materials that could be provided for the booth?

  • Hand outs, banners?

  • Is there a Promo video that could be played throughout the meeting?

Maintainers Updates - Remi

• Inheritance issue - can several people attend the schema meeting to help tackle this problem?

• Weekly meeting is Thursdays - Kim will at the steering group to the calendar invite.