[Neurobureau-hubs] brainhacker school

[Chris Filo Gorgolewski]

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.

Best,
Chris

On Mon Jan 19 2015 at 7:37:37 AM rbrto <robertotoro at gmail.com> wrote:

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