NeuroCAUSAL - Development of an Open Source Platform for the Storage, Sharing, Synthesis and Meta-Analysis of Clinical Data

[vborghe]

Project Team: Valentina Borghesani, Canada, University of Montreal, she/her/hers @vborghe Isil Poyraz Bilgin, UK, University of Reading, she/her/hers @complexbrains Sladjana Lukic, USA, Adelphi University, she/her/hers @Sladja13 Pedro Pinheiro-Chagas, USA, Stanford University, he/him/his @pinheirochagas

Mentor: Sara Elgebali @selgebali

Welcome to OLS-5! This issue will be used to track your project and progress during the program. Please use this checklist over the next few weeks as you start Open Life Science program :tada:.

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Week 1 (week starting 28 February 2022): Meet your mentor!

• [x] Meet mentor for 30 minutes
• [x] Create an account on GitHub
• [x] Check if you have access to the HackMD notes set up for your meetings with your mentor
• [x] Prepare to meet your mentor(s) by completing a short homework provided in your shared notes
• [x] Complete your own copy of the open leadership self-assessment and share it to your mentor If you're a group, each teammate should complete this assessment individually. This is here to help you set your own personal goals during the program. No need to share your results, but be ready to share your thoughts with your mentor.
• [x] Make sure you know when and how you'll be meeting with your mentor.

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Before Week 2 (week starting 7 March 2022): Cohort Call (Welcome to Open Life Science!)

• [x] Attend call or catch up via YouTube
• [x] Create an issue on the OLS-5 GitHub repository for your OLS work and share the link to your mentor.
• [x] Draft a brief vision statement using your goals This lesson from the Open Leadership Training Series (OLTS) might be helpful
• [x] Leave a comment on this issue with your draft vision statement & be ready to share this on the call
• [x] Check the Syllabus for notes and connection info for all the cohort calls.

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Before Week 3 (week starting 14 March 2022): Meet your mentor!

• [x] Meet mentor
• [x] Look up two other projects and comment on their issues with feedback on their vision statement
• [ ] Complete this compare and contrast assignment about current and desired community interactions and value exchanges
• [x] Complete your Open Canvas (instructions, canvas)
• [x] Share a link to your Open Canvas in your GitHub issue
• [x] Start your Roadmap
• [x] Comment on your issue with your draft Roadmap
• [ ] Suggest a cohort name at the bottom of the shared notes and vote on your favorite with a +1

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Before Week 4: Cohort Call (Tooling and roadmapping for Open projects)

• [x] Attend call or catch up via YouTube
• [x] Look up two other projects and comment on their issues with feedback on their open canvas.

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Week 5 and later

• [x] Meet mentor
• [x] Create a GitHub repository for your project
• [x] Add the link to your repository in your issue
• [x] Use your canvas to start writing a README.md file, or landing page, for your project
• [x] Link to your README in a comment on this issue
• [x] Add an open license to your repository as a file called LICENSE.md
• [x] Add a Code of Conduct to your repository as a file called CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
• [ ] Invite new contributors to into your work!

This issue is here to help you keep track of work as you start Open Life Science program. Please refer to the OLS-5 Syllabus for more detailed weekly notes and assignments past week 4.

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Week 6

• [x] Attend call or catch up via YouTube

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Week 7

• [x] Meet mentor

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Week 8

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Week 9

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Week 10

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Week 11

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Week 12

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Week 13

• [x] Meet mentor

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Week 14

• [x] Attend call or catch up via YouTube

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Week 15

• [x] Meet mentor

[vborghe]

[draft of the mission statement] We are working with clinicians, neuroimagers, and software developers to develop an open source platform for the storage, sharing, synthesis and meta-analysis of human clinical data to the service of the clinical and cognitive neuroscience community so that the future of neuropsychology can be transdiagnostic, open, and FAIR.

[vborghe]

[draft of our canva]

[vborghe]

[draft of the roadmap] here :)

Link to our project repo: https://github.com/neurocausal

[gareth-j]

Hi @vborghe, your project sounds really interesting! I think it might share some goals of our OpenGHG project but with different data.

[complexbrains]

Hi @gareth-j thank you for sharing it! It looks like a great project indeed!

If you think it would be nice to come together and share improvements so far and further plans. we would be happy to do so in the upcoming weeks! Please let us know how it sounds! 🤗

[vborghe]

We have a website now!

[K-C-Martin]

Hi @vborghe - it was great chatting to you at the last social call, and thanks for the link to your repo; definitely super interesting :)

[vborghe]

Same! And thank you: we will participate to the OHBM brainhack next month and hope to make nice progress soon 💪

[vborghe]

Both our main repo have a read-me but still in progress:

• meta-analysis
• data sharing

[gareth-j]

@complexbrains Sorry for the incredibly slow reply! I'd definitely be up for a chat, my email address is g.m.jones@bristol.ac.uk

[complexbrains]

No problem a second @gareth-j

We are given a small summer break to get on with other remaining works, but we are running weekly Monday meetings at 5 pm UK time, and announcing the meeting schedule at our Brainhack community forum channel.

So please do come along any of them suits you so we can have a chance to discuss our projects.

Thank you!