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Draft notes for 9/2/05 Conference Call for Core Committee Planning on AHM.

On the call: Jessica Turner, Mark James, Jyl Boline, Jeff Grethe, Jorge Jovicich, Randy Gollub, Joe Ames

• '''The brand-new facility we will be using on the UCSD campus. An update from Mark James. '''

'''Comments:''' BIRN will be the second conference at the Cal IT2 building. It has wireless everywhere and a main auditorium that holds 200. There are five other conference rooms of good size available for BIRN use. Lunch will be provided each day in or near the building.

'''Action item:'' Each workshop on Thursday needs to give MarkJ its AV and other technical requirements and the approximate number of people to expect. (The Freesurfer/Slicer workshop requirements are done and reflected on the wiki pages. The sooner this is done the better.)

'''Overall schedule.''' How does it look? What needs to be done?

'''Comments:''' Very little comment. On track. '''Action item:''' None

'''Registration.''' Are people signing up? If not, what more do we need to do to get them to sign up? '''Comments:''' The pace of registration is picking up. Testbed project managers need to continue to spread the word and get people to sign up. And remind people that hotel rooms will be available only to Sept. 17. '''Action items:''' Just keep spreading the word.

'''3-5 Summary papers.''' Progress on that from the Working Groups. The deadline was 9/1. The Working Group leaders are: Database Integration: Jeff Grethe '''Comments:''' Report will be ready week of 9/6. Action item: Portal/Visualization: Jason Novotny '''Comments:''' Report will be ready week of 9/6. Action items: Ontologies: Carol Bean and Maryanne Martone '''Comments:''' Task force met Friday. Report will be ready early week of 9/6. Action items: Workflow Process/Analysis: Shawn Murphy '''Comments:''' Report will be ready week of 9/6. Action items:

'''Strategy Track:'''

'''Multi-modal imaging''' - Jorge What else needs to be done? Shouldn’t we have a 1 page paper laying out issues for this 90 minute session? Who is going to do that? Comments: '''Action items:''' Jorge will work on 1 page report.

'''Statistics/Data-driven research.''' – Jessica What else needs to be done? Shouldn’t we have a 1 page paper laying out issues for this 90 minute session? Who is going to do that? Comments: '''Action items:''' Jessica will work on 1 page report

'''Human/Mouse Integration ''' What else needs to be done? Shouldn’t we have a 1 page paper laying out issues for this 90 minute session? Who is going to do that? Comments: '''Action items:''' Joe will work with Mark E and Randy Buckner on a 1 page report.

<br />'''Review plans for 4th day on external matters ''' '''Action item:''' Executive Committee wants an expectation paragraph for each workshop. This way we can be clear to everyone – inside and outside of BIRN – about what people can expect to get out of this session.. Then the EC would review them and upon approval then cast a wide net for participants.

'''Comments:''' Slicer/freesurfer paragraph on goals is done and on the wiki pages. Atlas (Jyl) and portal (Jeff) paragraphs need to be done. It appears that the 4th session, on BIRN applications, is tentative, at best.

'''Action items:''' Need to get these done week of 9/6 so they can be run by the EC and then wide spread distribution of notice of the workshops can start.

'''Society for Neuroscience'''

Planning. Where are we? '''Comments:''' At 8:30 on Thursday, 10/20, a group including Jorge, Jeff and Jessica will present the plans (demos, etc) to the EC for their feedback. After getting Executive Committee feedback, a final plan will be developed and polished for Society for Neuroscience meeting. (Randy and Jyl will be in workshops at 8:30 Thursday but their input will be necessary and vital.) '''Action items:''' Need to address license issues, build a toolbox and template.

'''Next meeting (proposed):''' Tuesday, 9/20 at 10amPDT?1pm EDT:''''''