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2025 07 31 steering group minutes

Agenda

  1. move to bids-standard.org

  2. Response to BIDS Townhalls 5 min

    do we have an estimate date on the rolling of the new BIDS website? [name=Camille] list of BEP statuses? [name=Yarik] commented https://github.com/bids-standard/bids-website/issues/673#issuecomment-3139948607

  3. Revitalize BIDS discussions w/journals 10 min

  4. Maintainers updates 10 min

    • Maintainers are back to regular meetings after on-boarding Ashley, Boris, and Yahya

    • Maintainers would like steering to weigh in on the modality and data types discussion - Issue #2108 - Oscar’s proposal - Yahya’s proposal

    • EBRAINS Summit/INCF BIDS Help Desk funding for Christine? - Cyril and Franco will be there.

    • From the town hall: steering should continue Ariel's work to try getting "BIDS datasets" to pass the BIDS validator for published papers

  5. Steering meeting over zoom Camille won't be able to join as of Sept :(

2025 07 03 bids town hall

Come share your views and learn more about how the BIDS project is developing

The 2025 virtual BIDS Town Hall happening on Wednesday, July 16 at 11:00 AM EDT (check your time here).

Hear more about our organizational updates, status updates from several of our BIDS extension proposals (BEPs), our community projects, and voice your thoughts about BIDS!

The event will take place fully virtually on the OSSIG Crowdcast platform at https://www.crowdcast.io/ossig2025

Please feel free to reach out to the BIDS Maintainers (bids.maintenance@gmail.com) with any questions.

2025 05 29 steering group minutes

Agenda

  1. OHBM Townhall 20 min

    • review plan and any slides for the townhall
    • SG please complete: slide 8 (heading: BIDS 2024-25 Other Milestones)
    • comments on orgnization or content? slides to cut?

  2. Response to MED regarding new format 5 min

  3. Maintainers updates 10 min

    • Maintainers need more members recruited

  4. (after end) Copenhagen Maintainers Meeting updates 15 min

2025 03 27 steering group minutes

Agenda

  1. Copenhagen maintainer meeting

  2. Follow up on cardiac BEP

  3. BEP045 (Physio)

    email from BEP045 (Physio), is input needed from steering?

  4. Maintainers Updates [name= all maintainers]

    • MEDD draft written. Does steering have a group account? Or who is sending?
    • New maintainer: Julia-Katharina Pfarr
    • Conflict of interest on BEPs
    • Status updates for BEPs being solicited

2025 02 13 steering group minutes

Agenda

  1. BIDS meeting 10min

    • [ ] Copenhagen (need to know by FEB 28)

      • [x] Update on dates - Chris M out through may 2

        • [x] May 5th Monday to Wednesday 7th

          • [ ] Add online meeting for BEPs
          • [ ] Make it a BIDS brainhack thing

        • [x] Day 1 (Monday) - public day

        • [x] Day 2-3 (Tues-Weds) : Maintainers, get through as many issues as we can

      • [ ] Scope/Focus - justifying additional invitees --

        • [ ] Public day - outreach to European BIDS collaborator

          • [ ] How many people?
          • [ ] Stefan, Robert, Oscar, Martin N, M Hanke, Yarik?

        • [ ] which PRs could use invites?

          • [ ] atlases
          • [ ] eye-tracking
          • [ ] PR "pay to play"

      • [ ] Logistics for late Feb:

        • [x] Who's paying for flights?

          • Can use the funds that Ariel (and Cyril if in EU) still has

        • [ ] Who's coordinating?

          • Cyril helps with with local logistics
          • Program and content details ???

        • [x] Who's booking hotels? --> Cyril

  2. MEDD Reversion 5min

    • Chris M started a response: MEDD
    • Used this as precedent to set guidelines to be added to BIDS website with respect to adding new format to BIDS

  3. BIDS BEP process

  4. Maintainers Updates > Cyril raised issue on field mandatoriness consistency in qMRI (field X must be present, but if one one does not know the value use filed Y, ok so why not allow field Y

2025 01 16 steering group minutes

Agenda:

  1. BIDS Meeting - Rennes 10 min

    • Possible meeting dates:
      • April 23-25 (these are the only dates that the Maintainers didn't want)
      • May 26-28
      • June 10-13

  2. Mathew Abrams - INCF Fiscal Sponsorship 30min

    make a summary of INCF as official fiscal sponsor + subcontractor on grants -- to be discussed among maintainers and checked by Mathew then the community should vote on that proposal

  3. Maintainers Updates

    • Copenhagen BIDS Maintainers meeting: do we need a theme to justify this or can we have it as maintainers meeting only?

    • New BEP PRs:

    • Maintainers to develop the BEP timeline with promotion/demotion and some criteria