This is a pretty cool idea, but Mike is right - we need to figure out how to make it easy for participants to convince their supervisors to get funding for this.<br><br>Best,<div>Chris</div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon Jan 19 2015 at 7:37:37 AM rbrto <<a href="mailto:robertotoro@gmail.com">robertotoro@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I want 12 months a year of that...<br>
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On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Pierre Bellec<br>
<<a href="mailto:pierre.bellec@criugm.qc.ca" target="_blank">pierre.bellec@criugm.qc.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
> @Cameron agreed, 2 weeks is more realistic.<br>
><br>
> @Daniel, re Banff, there have an on-going program to host workshops in<br>
> mathematics. They may have a long workshop format, I'll look into it. For<br>
> locations, the problem is not much different than hosting a traditional<br>
> brainhack, with maybe more emphasis on local attendants.<br>
><br>
> @Roberto<br>
> Re Nifti, that's recoding nii2mnc, or even re-inventing the minc format.<br>
> Looks like some folks are taking this task seriously:<br>
> <a href="http://www.frontiersin.org/10.3389/conf.fninf.2013.09.00069/event_abstract" target="_blank">http://www.frontiersin.org/10.<u></u>3389/conf.fninf.2013.09.00069/<u></u>event_abstract</a><br>
><br>
> Re FSL, you never know what we'll discover.<br>
> <a href="http://youtu.be/HdWRTleizFU?t=10m54s" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/HdWRTleizFU?t=<u></u>10m54s</a><br>
><br>
> Re HCP, trying to test the level of actual security of their database may<br>
> indeed be interesting & useful.<br>
><br>
> Now, regarding what this brainhack school would look like, I guess it would<br>
> be like a longer version of brainhack, with most of the time devoted for<br>
> attendants to work on their own projects, self-initiated and managed. We<br>
> would still have well identified education talks & experts of various tools<br>
> available onsite, some general (version control, programming) and some more<br>
> specialized (e.g. AFNI), again very much like brainhack. We could also have<br>
> some more maker-oriented resources, such as 3D printing, EEG set, or even an<br>
> MRI depending on the location (I am pretty sure this could be arranged in<br>
> Montreal or Leipzig for example). Maybe even a vibrating shirt, who knows.<br>
> In two weeks, participants may be able to take advantage of the availability<br>
> of large datasets and computational resources, which has not been the case<br>
> in the short version of brainhack. Also, unlike the short brainhack,<br>
> participants may be able to actually deliver a concrete output. Finally, the<br>
> event should be family friendly for obvious reasons :) I'm sure my kids<br>
> could totally work their way through a two weeks lego projects, especially<br>
> if we throw in some quadropters as well.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Pierre Bellec<br>
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> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 8:13 AM, rbrto <<a href="mailto:robertotoro@gmail.com" target="_blank">robertotoro@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Yes!! Brainhacker school!! We teach people to read the nifti data<br>
>> directly from the file with an hex editor, p0wn the unused fields and<br>
>> write the results in new fancy formats!!! Make FSL do new types of<br>
>> analyses by using buffer overflows, etc :)<br>
>> I'm already loving it!!<br>
>> (anyone tried sql injection in HCP??)<br>
>><br>
>> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Daniel Margulies<br>
>> <<a href="mailto:daniel.margulies@gmail.com" target="_blank">daniel.margulies@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> > I love the idea, Pierre,<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Any leads on the possibility of doing this as a retreat at the Banff<br>
>> > Center?<br>
>> > Perhaps there are other locations that might be possible as well?<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Daniel<br>
>> ><br>
>> > On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 4:21 AM, Pierre Bellec<br>
>> > <<a href="mailto:pierre.bellec@criugm.qc.ca" target="_blank">pierre.bellec@criugm.qc.ca</a>><br>
>> > wrote:<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Hi guys,<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Just ran into this:<br>
>> >> <a href="https://www.hackerschool.com/" target="_blank">https://www.hackerschool.com/</a><br>
>> >><br>
>> >> We should probably try to organize a summer brainhacker school modeled<br>
>> >> after this. 3 months is a tad long, but one month could be doable,<br>
>> >> especially if we get, say, the banff center to host the event.<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Best,<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Pierre Bellec<br>
>> >> <a href="http://simexp-lab.org/brainwiki/doku.php?id=pierrebellec" target="_blank">http://simexp-lab.org/<u></u>brainwiki/doku.php?id=<u></u>pierrebellec</a><br>
>> >> Telephone (1) 514 713 5596<br>
>> >> SIMEXP lab <a href="http://simexp-lab.org" target="_blank">http://simexp-lab.org</a><br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
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