<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello Oliver,<div><br></div><div>Thank you for your comments and thank you for hosting us at your house. I came to a few different conclusions from the conversations we had that night. </div><div><br></div><div>The Neuro Bureau is finally reaching a point where we can start to draw a distinction between the organization membership and the organization leadership. Membership in the Neuro Bureau is open to everyone, we have yet to turn anyone away, and as Daniel and I like to say "everyone is a member in the Neuro Bureau".</div><div><br></div><div>The organizational leadership is a trickier business. While our ideals would seem to mandate a fully open organization where everyone contributes equally to the administration and all of the projects of the neuro bureau (full democracy), this is impractical. We will quickly get paralyzed by a bureaucratic mess (is that a pun?). Ideally in the future we will have a democratic process in which the membership chooses the leadership, but at this point that is impractical. Instead we have to rely on volunteers to perform leadership duties. </div><div><br></div><div>You and several of the other hubs were invited to become the inaugural leaders of the Neuro Bureau due to the need to establish a core for the Neuro Bureau in a time where we had no membership to draw from. We do not wish to imply that the future membership in the Bureau will be limited to invitation. Additionally it is unlikely that there will be an application process for the Bureau that is any more stringent than simply asking to become a member. And for many members, being in the NB is likely to mean little more than attending the parties and wearing the badge.</div><div><br></div><div>I do not have a clear vision of what the NB will become, it has already seen a few substantial mutations over the past year. We are relying on the hubs to help structure the Neuro Bureau and steer it through its maturation. What do you want the Neuro Bureau to become?</div><div><br></div><div>Here are a few things that I would like the Neuro Bureau to be:</div><div>- an independent research institution</div><div>- an organization that supports open neuroscience through openly sharing tools, data, ideas, and effort</div><div>- a diverse community of people who like brains and open collaboration</div><div>- a positive force in the universe</div><div>- something to be proud of</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Cameron</div><div><br></div><div><div><br><div><div>On Jul 9, 2011, at 3:33 PM, Oliver Lyttelton wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br>Hi everyone,<br><br>One take home message from the conversations we had at the bbq was that while the neurobureau is an organisation that promotes data and methods sharing, the organisation itself is not open. In the sense that membership is by invitation only, without any clearly laid out application process. There were also various (albeit jokey) "explanations" for what the Bureau is about that I
heard that evening, and some of them were seemingly at odds with the
mission statement on the nitric website...<br><br>I have not contributed much to the work for HBM 2011 which was an impressive success, and I also understand that having too much red-tape early on stifles the process of getting things going. I also think it should sit with those who have put in the work in to decide where to go from here.<br>
<br>I would love to hear their vision of what they would like the Neuro Bureau to be in five years from now, and how they see the power and control of the organisation being structured. Power and control are hard words to place against a backdrop of "open neuroscience", but ignoring these elements won't make them go away. I'd feel more comfortable knowing more about what the plans are to steer the Neuro Bureau through its maturational process.<br>
<br>With best wishes,<br><br>Oliver<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 8 July 2011 22:17, Cameron Craddock <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cameron.craddock@gmail.com">cameron.craddock@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hello everyone,<div><br></div><div>Daniel and I brainstormed a list of roles for the Neuro Bureau. Please have a look over the list and think about whether there is something that we left out, or if there is a position that you would like to fill. Many of these roles will require more than one person, and it is our hope that the members will contribute to many of these. But we need to establish a main coordinator for each of our activities.</div>
<div><br></div><div>- education coordinator</div><div>- organizer for Beijing art exhibition</div><div>- organizer for Beijing HBM party</div><div>- Data sharing / preprocessing czar</div><div>- someone to head up our visualization agenda including next art competition and 3D efforts</div>
<div>- Web presence - twitter, facebook, blog</div><div>- organization administration</div><div>- student outreach</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Cameron<br><div><div><div></div><div class="h5">
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Jul 8, 2011, at 9:44 PM, Pierre Bellec wrote:</div><br></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div></div><div class="h5">Dear hubs,<div><br></div><div>During last HBM, a number of people have expressed concerns regarding our organizational principles. <span style="color:rgb(50, 50, 50);font-family:'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:20px">That's going to be the focus of our next large group call next week. Please fill in the doodle so we can set up a date/time asap:</span></div>
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<div><font face="'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" color="#323232"><br></font></div><div><font face="'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" color="#323232">Here's an outline of the agenda:</font></div>
<div><font face="'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" color="#323232"> * Quick follow-up on active projects</font></div><div><font face="'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" color="#323232"> * ADHD200</font></div>
<div><font face="'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" color="#323232"> * art@HBM 2011</font></div><div><font face="'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" color="#323232"> * neurobureau workshop ?</font></div>
<div><font face="'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" color="#323232"> * art@HBM 2012</font></div><div><font face="'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" color="#323232"> * blog/facebook/twitter</font></div>
<div><font face="'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" color="#323232"> * Discussion on organizational principles</font></div><div><font face="'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" color="#323232"> * workgroups ?</font></div>
<div><font face="'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" color="#323232"> * roles within each group ?</font></div><div><font face="'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" color="#323232"> * creation of a neurobureau steering committee ?</font></div>
<div><font face="'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" color="#323232"> * creation of a neurobureau senior advisory board ?</font></div><div><font face="'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" color="#323232"> </font></div>
<div>Please post to me or on the hubs mailing list if you have comments or if you want to add points on the agenda. I'll create an EVO meeting as soon as we have a date (BTW, EVO is a pain, I am looking into adobe ConnectNow, it seems cool but it's about 400$/year for meetings with 5 to 20 people, any suggestion ?).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div> </div><div>Pierre Bellec, PhD</div><div>Chercheur adjoint<div>Département d'informatique et de recherche opérationnelle<br><div>Centre de recherche de l'institut de Gériatrie de Montréal</div>
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