[Incf-ocns-software-wg] Logs from Open WG meeting: Tuesday 14 February 0800/1700 UTC

[Ankur Sinha]

Dear all,

Here are the logs from February's WG meeting. The next meeting (for
March) will be next week. I will send out a reminder shortly.

Agenda
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https://github.com/OCNS/SoftwareWG/issues/126

- plans for CNS2023 (if any)

  - https://github.com/OCNS/SoftwareWG/issues/125

- (Shailesh): about having a new co-chair to replace myself. I have been finding it difficult in recent months to devote much time to the admin activities of the group, and it would therefore be useful to have someone else step-up and help manage the WG. I will naturally continue to contribute as a member of the WG. Forming the task forces (for the two ongoing tasks) was a nice example of how some of the workload could be distributed and managed.
- Code of Conduct

  - https://github.com/OCNS/SoftwareWG/issues/123

- Task force updates


Notes
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- CNS2023: do not do satellite tutorials this year

  - continue with dev sessions and software highlights
  - if/when possible, do more things of general interest

    - reproducibility
    - model visualisation
    - etc.

  - ACTION: Ankur comment on ticket with updates (DONE)

    - See: `ticket <https://github.com/OCNS/SoftwareWG/issues/125#issuecomment-1460539119>`__

- ACTION: Ankur mention in notifications that we're looking for a new co-chair

  - if we do have lots of candidates, we can consider an election

- Code of Conduct:

  - point to OCNS Code of Conduct
  - let co-chairs be in-charge of enforcement, with possibility of reaching out to externals when necessary
  - ACTION: Ankur update website (DONE)

- Task force updates

  - Simselect: lots of steady progress

    - core team meets every two weeks
    - agreement on database/data description
    - consensus on general idea of what the resource needs to look like
    - at stage where prototyping is required to flesh out more details
    - more information on ticket: https://github.com/OCNS/SoftwareWG/issues/117

  - Guidelines task force

    - no sense in writing another programming guide etc., which already exist in plenty
    - needs to be something that addresses a niche that the Software WG has expertise in
    - replace with something like an informal cookbook that includes useful tips/tricks/snippets that can be used in computational neuroscience

      - See, for example: https://web.archive.org/web/20170227062636/http://neuralensemble.org/cookbook/

    - ACTION: Ankur comment on `ticket <https://github.com/OCNS/SoftwareWG/issues/116>`__ suggesting we:

      - add section on "guidelines" to the `resources page on our website <https://ocns.github.io/SoftwareWG/pages/resources.html>`__: DONE
      - close `ticket <https://github.com/OCNS/SoftwareWG/issues/116>`__
      - suggest "cook book" instead of guidelines: DONE



-- 
Thanks,
Regards,
Ankur Sinha (He / Him / His) | https://ankursinha.in
Time zone: Europe/London
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