Steering Group minutes 2023/09/28

Date: Thursday, Sept 28th, 2023

Topic	Relevant Links
Continued Discussion from last meeting on Spatial Derivatives?	https://github.com/bids-standard/bids-specification/issues/1602
The Neuro - Irv and Helga Cooper Foundation Open Science Prize submission	Done. Thank Ariel for making it happen!
Any Follow up from Renzo Huber at Aperture?	KIM will follow up on this.
OHBM Call for Content opened Sept 22nd. Things to consider: Townhall meeting space request BIDS symposium or other presentations	https://humanbrainmapping.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=4229#:~:text=These%20are%20included%20in%20the,%2435%20USD%20again%20in%202024 . Cyril to submit a round-table for town-hall meeting Franco and Ariel will be submitting a symposium, more content (a.o., Russ to present along the lines of recent paper) DUE DATE Nov 17, 2023
Update on NSF POSE conference in Q1 2024	https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/pathways-enable-open-source-ecosystems-pose
BIDS maintainers meeting in Seattle, April 10th - 12th, 2024
Camille's email BIDS-Prov BEP028	https://github.com/bids-standard/bids-specification/pull/487 has been closed

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Present: Cyril Pernet, Ariel Rokem, Chris Markiewicz, Robert Oostenveld, Guiomar Niso, Yaroslav Halchenko

Guest:

Meeting Notes:

Kim’s Maternity leave through the end of the year

Remaining 2023 agendas are listed in the steering group

Sign up sheet is [here]{.underline} for assuming Kim’s role in meeting management: Guiomar, Robert and Ariel take turns at the next three meetings. We won’t meet on 21 Dec.

Meeting schedule:

• December 21st. NO MEETING - Kim will remove agenda and calendar.

Open science Prize:

• Application is complete!

• Ariel will update the letters of support in the BIDS drive along with the other application materials

OHBM content call:

• We should submit a round table request for the BIDS townhall meeting - Cyril will submit this

• Or should this be part of the Symposium for BIDS?

Aperture:

• Kim will follow up on any updates from the Aperture committee

NSF POSE Q1 2024:

• Ariel’s proposal has been funded, there will be an open source software meeting that will happen as a result of this funding. More information to come

BIDS Maintainers Meeting

• April 10-12, 2023 - maintainers has indicated that this is an ideal timeframe for them

• NSF will only fund within US travel under this mechanism - non-US maintainers will need to find funding to travel US and then the NSF grant can pay for their travel within the US.

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• NSF can support travel to the meeting

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• Are there non-US projects funding BIDS?

  • Cyril -

• Can BIDS connectivity project (Franco Pestilli?) support Peer’s travel?

• Will non-maintainers also attend?

  • Maintainers may identify additional attendees

  • BEP leads that are ready to be merged may be ideal additional attendees

• Ariel will attend a maintainers meeting next week to help plan further.

BIDS-Prov BEP028 (Camille’s email Prov)

• Is their BEP ready to be merged? What are the next steps?

• This BEP will likely not be merged directly into the BIDS validator; the validator could call to this BEP similar to how it is done for PET data.

• Maintainers will work with Camille to determine how to implement the BIDS-Prov BEP

BIDS Spatial Derivatives

• Proposal seems to be converging, there needs to be a vote on how to move forward

• Meant to curb the explosion of Suffixes in file naming

• Next steps: PR to BIDS extensions site for guidance that gets up/down voted?

  • End discussion period, Allow two weeks for a voting period

Next Meeting Guest?

• Any BIDS leads?

• Robert will invite the leads of the NIBS BEP (non invasive brain stimulation, [BEP037]{.underline}) to ask whether they want to attend the next or next-next BIDS meeting.

More generally: BIDS advisory group (i.e., BEP leads) engagement

• Start meetings with BEP leads and SG

• BIDS Townhall format? Additional meeting with lead for discussing