The Open Science Special Interest Group is very happy to announce that the 8th Annual OHBM Hackathon will be held on June 23-25 in Montreal.
At the OHBM hackathon members of the community gather to work collaboratively on common projects. The event also features a TrainTrack in which tutorials are provided. Hackathons differ from typical academic conference in that because attendees can actively take part in the program and co-learn from each other will be actively trying to create something rather than passively attend. Although many hackathon projects might involve coding, it is not a requirement and many projects can be done without coding skills.
For this years’s hackathon, we want to create an atmosphere where people who have never attended such event before can feel welcome. We want to make sure that attendees not only have the opportunity to learn new open-science skills in the traintrack that will help them in their future work but that they also get the chance to directly practice some of those skills by joining and collaborate on a hackathon project.
The projects can be things the project leader is already working on, or a project they would like to receive contribution/opinion/help, or a completely new project they would like to accomplish with group work.
You can find example of projects listed in the different brainhack events or directly on the websites of previous hackathons :
- openMR 2020 hackathon
- OHBM 2019 hackathon
- Brainhack Princeton 2019
- Brainhack Open Geneva 2020
- BrainHack Ghent 2018
The Open Science Special Interest Group is pleased to offer 20 travel awards that will include free registration at the hackathon plus $500 that will go towards covering part of the expenses incurred to attend the hackathon. For more information see this page.
Soon after abstract acceptances are sent out, registration will open. In the past two years the hackathon was fully booked and we therefore recommend interested attendees to register early. Seats will be allocated on a first come first serve basis. In an effort to increase diversity at the event, we will reserve part of the seats to attendees who attend a hackathon for the first time or who come from traditionally under-represented groups in science or in past hackathons.
Are there specific topics that you would like to see covered in the Hackathon training sessions? Please let us know using this form.
For most recent updates please see the OS SIG website, follow the hbm-hackathon channel on the brainhack mattermost and follow us on twitter @OHBMopen.
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We thank the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility and Openneuro for their generous contributions in support of the 2020 OHBM Hackathon!
