AHM Planning 8/9/05: Minutes
Next AHM Planning Meeting
- Date: No date was set. Work in the next two weeks will be done via email/phone calls. The Executive Committee will review the AHM plans at the 8/24 conference call. After that meeting, a date and agenda will be set for the next Core Committee meeting.
Participants on 8/9//05
- Jyl Boline, Jeff Grethe, Bret Peterson, Randy Gollub, Joe Ames
Summary Minutes
- Preparations for Society for Neuroscience
Conversation revolved around a policy issue. "What do we say to people at the SofN when they ask, 'How do I use BIRN? How do I get involved?' " There was a feeling that BIRN people at SofN need to have a cogent answer to these questions at the SofN conference (and other conferences). It would be helpful to have a "handbook" or some other brief explanation on how to interact BIRN. This thread of the conversation extended a bit to other potential external interactions such as ADNI, GCRCs and Yerkes. This conversation ended with a sense that the Executive Committee needs to talk this through, perhaps in a working meeting on Thursday morning, Oct. 20. This would be a session dedicated to an overall strategy on how BIRN deals with external relationships. This issue may need to be on the agenda for the next Executive Committee conference call on 8/24.
Action item: Need to identify what needs to be done and who can do it to prepare the material for the SofN meeting. This work needs to start soon. The AHM will, in effect, be a final check-off on items since the SofN meeting is in November. Jeff and Joe will talk next week.
- Workshops: There was a strong feeling that one of the best ways to reach out to people is to offer good training opportunities.
So, three potential workshops were considered.
Slicer/Freesurfer Workshop. Randy offered to put together a day-long workshop on Thursday.
Portal Development Workshop Jeff said CC could take care of this workshop, which may have to run start on Thursday and end Friday.
Atlas Tools Workshop Jyl was going to check with some colleagues on interest and what could be done about this topic.
Preliminary plans are being developed and updates can be seen on the main wiki planning page.
Action item: Some external groups, such Yerkes, are planning on sending people to the Thursday workshops. But there needs to be a list of what external groups would have the greatest potential as productive, long-term collaborators for BIRN. The Executive and Core committees can discuss who ought to be on the that AHM-invite list at their next meetings.
There also was a short conversation about progress on the Strategy Track. There has not been, overall, much enthusiasm for an Image Calibration session. And there was followup email traffic suggesting that a session on Analyses Streams would be a better use of time.
Action item: Core Committee needs to decide on a recommendation on this before 8/24 Exec. Committee meeting.
There has been good progress on Stats/Data Mining. The notes are on the wiki pages. These folks want to have a 2 hour session on Tuesday afternoon.
There was an interesting conversation last week on a Mouse/Human integration conference call. The notes on that issue will be available shortly.
Other items not talked about but need to be addressed:
- Who is in the leader of the Visualization/Portal Working Group? Jeff and Joe are talking next week.
- What needs to be done to solidify the leadership of the Workflow Group? And who is going to finish the agenda for that group's work. Jorge and Joe will talk when Jorge comes back from vacation.
Milestones
- 7/20 Draft working group agendas and memberships to BIRN Exec. Committee
- 7/26 Conference call with core committee and BIRN Executive Committee. Review plans to date.
- 8/24 Executive Committee meeting to finalize the plan.
- 9/1 Deadline for 3-5 page background papers from each Working Group.
