Steering Group minutes 2021/12/14

Date: Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Topic	Relevant Links
Welcome Ariel Rokem! Farewell to Kirstie! New maintainer: Eric Earl
Last meeting of the year Starting back up on January 6 at 6am PT / 3pm CET
BEP31: Microscopy update community review completed Final reviews Wrapping up validator and examples Estimated completion and incorporation: early next year	https://github.com/bids-standard/bids-specification/pull/881 Map bep number to name
(continued) Consider modularizing the specification Components: Raw, derivatives, modeling, and metadata Each have their own common principles to help establish foundation to build upon Ease incorporation process	https://github.com/bids-standard/bids-specification/issues/255 https://github.com/bids-standard/bids-specification/issues/401 Let’s sort the BEPs here, both upcoming and old: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1im1AmDfEBRtFOtQlv_atUtOH8xyiEmL_QsstKKQ6_eE/edit?usp=sharing
Clarification of the relationship between BIDS and BIDS-Apps Description/perspective from Steering Group? > To be addressed in website improvements.
(continued) Writing up BIDS usage survey into blog post
(continued) BEP guidelines - recommend against student leading BEP if it is a requirement for graduation -> should maybe be added to governance? -> BEP Lead Guidelines - RO: This should become part of website. -> +1 preparing a BEP is okay, requiring acceptance is not
MG: As modalities get more complicated - converters should be built to ease the forking and enhancing process > RO: Examples generated from multiple labs with ad hoc or common converters. > RP: Letters of support? Statement of relation to existing standards? Focus on sharing in Starter Kit	https://neurostars.org/t/repetitiontime-parameters-what-are-they-and-where-to-find-them/20020/8
Franco Pestilli’s BIDS-connectivity grant MG: I’d be especially interested to hear if we are straining maintainers too much by trying to get 7 BEPs merged within two years
Starter kit update Remi and Abrren (new contributor) transferred wiki into repository Pushing into jupyterbook ––> Try to meet with Remi etc to converge with the website	https://bids-standard.github.io/bids-starter-kit/
Moving meeting timeslot? Perhaps moving from 6am to 8am? Preserve the triweekly schedule
Proposed joint Steering Group - Maintainers Group meeting March 10?
Performing biannual BEP updates in January 2022 Provide insights into the status and progress of our BEPs
Guest scheduling: January 27 - Franco Pestilli joining to discuss scope of BIDS-connectivity grant February 17 - BEP34 (computational models) joining to discuss their BEP Maintainers Group guests: January 18 - BEP029: Virtual and physical motion BEP leads joining TBD - BEP020: Eye-tracking	BEP34 (comp models): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NT1ERdL41oz3NibIFRyVQ2iR8xH-dKY-lRCB4eyVeRo/edit BEP029 (motion): https://bids.neuroimaging.io/bep029 BEP020 (eye-tracking): https://bids.neuroimaging.io/bep020