#fedora-neuro: "NeuroFedora - 20200518"

Meeting started by FranciscoD at 18:01:54 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

  1. Agenda (FranciscoD, 18:03:09)
    1. New introductions and roll call (FranciscoD, 18:03:24)
    2. Tasks from last week's meeting (FranciscoD, 18:03:33)
    3. Open Pagure tickets (FranciscoD, 18:03:39)
    4. Comp Neuro Lab compose check (FranciscoD, 18:03:45)
    5. Bug review (FranciscoD, 18:03:58)
    6. Neuroscience query of the fortnight (FranciscoD, 18:04:07)
    7. Next meeting day and chair (FranciscoD, 18:04:16)
    8. Open floor (FranciscoD, 18:04:19)

  2. New introductions and roll call (FranciscoD, 18:04:26)
    1. ankursinha: packaging and stuff (FranciscoD, 18:04:47)
    2. major/MeWjOr: currently nothing... Legacy support maybe? :P (MeWjOr, 18:05:37)

  3. Tasks from last week (FranciscoD, 18:07:58)
    1. https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teams/neurofedora/neurofedora.2020-04-27-18.01.html (FranciscoD, 18:08:02)
    2. FranciscoD update docs to remove info about the iso image we generated : DONE (FranciscoD, 18:08:16)
    3. FranciscoD e-mail devel list asking for volunteers: pending (FranciscoD, 18:08:34)
    4. Discuss ideas on increasing the team in Open Floor (FranciscoD, 18:12:24)
    5. FranciscoD add spin-master to list of open positions in blog post: DONE (FranciscoD, 18:12:41)
    6. FranciscoD e-mail neuroscience mailing lists about the CompNeuro release: DONE (FranciscoD, 18:15:09)

  4. Open pagure tickets (FranciscoD, 18:16:40)
    1. https://pagure.io/neuro-sig/NeuroFedora/issues?status=Open&tags=S%3A+Next+meeting (FranciscoD, 18:16:57)
    2. No tickets to discuss: YAY (FranciscoD, 18:17:11)

  5. Bugs (FranciscoD, 18:17:24)
    1. https://tinyurl.com/neurofedora-bugs (FranciscoD, 18:17:28)
    2. Not too many urgent bugs: a few updates, a few remaining slightly complex FTBFS bugs (FranciscoD, 18:18:23)

  6. Compose check (FranciscoD, 18:20:21)
    1. Latest was incomplete: https://pagure.io/releng/failed-composes/issue/1447 (FranciscoD, 18:20:59)
    2. koji task: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=44632603 (FranciscoD, 18:21:32)
    3. root.log: https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//work/tasks/2606/44632606/root.log (FranciscoD, 18:22:03)
    4. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2JPVOJLK7NPTBI7IZPMB3L6MUHT3JMFW/ -> TeXLive 2020 is causing it, will be fixed soon (FranciscoD, 18:23:33)
    5. Compose: nothing we need to do at the moment (FranciscoD, 18:25:00)

  7. Query of the fortnight (FranciscoD, 18:25:18)
    1. Some new stuff here that's worth looking at: https://pagure.io/neuro-sig/NeuroFedora/issue/318 (FranciscoD, 18:25:32)
    2. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/blind-vision-brain-stimulation-trace-letters -> was quite intersting (FranciscoD, 18:27:13)

  8. Open floor (FranciscoD, 18:29:45)
    1. The Java SIG has been re-launched, and quite a few folks joined to help out: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/stewardship-sig@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NGE3RS4U2LZ2DTLSSAURVDSKDKZM2PV4/ (FranciscoD, 18:30:20)

  9. Attracting more contributors (FranciscoD, 18:35:21)
    1. More outreach (FranciscoD, 18:36:00)
    2. Make meetings even more open: advertise on social media also (FranciscoD, 18:36:16)
    3. packaging classroom sessions? (FranciscoD, 18:36:22)
    4. invited talks from folks in the field? (FranciscoD, 18:36:47)
    5. university collaborations (FranciscoD, 18:36:58)
    6. move to more accessible meeting format: jitsi/zoom and all that? (FranciscoD, 18:37:30)
    7. speak to tool devs to ask what it would take for them to make neurofedora their default usage platform? (FranciscoD, 18:37:52)
    8. poke new folks in the join sig channels towards packaging (I already do this :P) (FranciscoD, 18:38:21)
    9. regular packaging classroom sessions (FranciscoD, 18:39:43)
    10. vFADs (FranciscoD, 18:39:49)
    11. blog posts on using NeuroFedora for actual work (FranciscoD, 18:40:13)
    12. replicating bits and publishing in rescience using NeuroFedora (https://rescience.github.io/) (FranciscoD, 18:40:31)
    13. calls for volunteers on academic mailing lists (may not get through moderation) (FranciscoD, 18:40:47)
    14. get funding/grants/sponsorshipts: MONEY (dunno how: don't think it can be done in an academic capacity, but perhaps in a FOSS capacity) (FranciscoD, 18:41:23)
    15. Use contacts in academia to encourage students (FranciscoD, 18:41:45)
    16. "hire" volunteers: not even sure how or what this would be tbh (FranciscoD, 18:42:46)
    17. tweet to scicomm etc folks (FranciscoD, 18:43:23)
    18. link up with INCF somehow (FranciscoD, 18:43:42)
    19. student internships (can we give actual letters/certificates that universities require??) (FranciscoD, 18:44:14)
    20. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Campus_Ambassadors (FranciscoD, 18:47:06)
    21. have a neurofedora twitter handle and tweet from it daily (FranciscoD, 18:48:10)
    22. AGREED: we'll advertise meetings on social media (FranciscoD, 18:48:46)
    23. AGREED: Have meetings on jitsi to make them more accessible (FranciscoD, 18:53:06)
    24. AGREED: finally create a dedicated twitter account for NeuroFedora and tweet every day (FranciscoD, 18:54:13)
    25. ACTION: FranciscoD set up twitter account using neuro-sig private ML address (FranciscoD, 18:54:29)
    26. AGREED: reach out to tool devs to ask what it would take for them to make neurofedora their suggested usage platform (FranciscoD, 18:57:48)
    27. ACTION: FranciscoD reach out to NEST folks when possible (FranciscoD, 18:58:07)
    28. ACTION: FranciscoD speak to -devel and -classroom to see if regular packaging workshops/classrooms can be held to increase package maintainers (FranciscoD, 18:59:55)
    29. https://www.incf.org/activities/endorse (FranciscoD, 19:00:41)
    30. ACTION: MeWjOr look at INCF endorsement (FranciscoD, 19:01:39)
    31. ACTION: FranciscoD MeWjOr gicmo mhough bt0 : discuss effects of our measures at the next meeting (FranciscoD, 19:02:36)
    32. ACTION: gicmo reach out to folks at g-node for feedback/comments on NeuroFedora (FranciscoD, 19:03:43)

  10. Next meeting: date, time, chair (FranciscoD, 19:04:00)
    1. ACTION: MeWjOr chair next meeting (FranciscoD, 19:05:46)
    2. Next meeting in 2 weeks, same time (FranciscoD, 19:05:53)
    3. ACTION: FranciscoD send out logs etc (FranciscoD, 19:06:22)
    4. ACTION: FranciscoD e-mail folks for a neuro-imaging focussed meeting setup (FranciscoD, 19:07:23)


Meeting ended at 19:08:16 UTC (full logs).

Action items

  1. FranciscoD set up twitter account using neuro-sig private ML address
  2. FranciscoD reach out to NEST folks when possible
  3. FranciscoD speak to -devel and -classroom to see if regular packaging workshops/classrooms can be held to increase package maintainers
  4. MeWjOr look at INCF endorsement
  5. FranciscoD MeWjOr gicmo mhough bt0 : discuss effects of our measures at the next meeting
  6. gicmo reach out to folks at g-node for feedback/comments on NeuroFedora
  7. MeWjOr chair next meeting
  8. FranciscoD send out logs etc
  9. FranciscoD e-mail folks for a neuro-imaging focussed meeting setup


Action items, by person

  1. bt0
    1. FranciscoD MeWjOr gicmo mhough bt0 : discuss effects of our measures at the next meeting
  2. FranciscoD
    1. FranciscoD set up twitter account using neuro-sig private ML address
    2. FranciscoD reach out to NEST folks when possible
    3. FranciscoD speak to -devel and -classroom to see if regular packaging workshops/classrooms can be held to increase package maintainers
    4. FranciscoD MeWjOr gicmo mhough bt0 : discuss effects of our measures at the next meeting
    5. FranciscoD send out logs etc
    6. FranciscoD e-mail folks for a neuro-imaging focussed meeting setup
  3. gicmo
    1. FranciscoD MeWjOr gicmo mhough bt0 : discuss effects of our measures at the next meeting
    2. gicmo reach out to folks at g-node for feedback/comments on NeuroFedora
  4. MeWjOr
    1. MeWjOr look at INCF endorsement
    2. FranciscoD MeWjOr gicmo mhough bt0 : discuss effects of our measures at the next meeting
    3. MeWjOr chair next meeting
  5. mhough
    1. FranciscoD MeWjOr gicmo mhough bt0 : discuss effects of our measures at the next meeting


People present (lines said)

  1. FranciscoD (194)
  2. MeWjOr (60)
  3. mhough (17)
  4. zodbot (13)
  5. tg-fedneuro (3)
  6. gicmo (2)
  7. bt0 (1)
  8. fm-neuro (1)
  9. lbazan (0)
  10. alciregi (0)
  11. zbyszek (0)


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