Connectionists: Announcing 3 NeuroML hackathon sessions at HARMONY 2021

[Padraig Gleeson]

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*We will be running 3 online NeuroML <https://neuroml.org/> hackathon 
sessions during the upcoming HARMONY 2021 
<http://co.mbine.org/events/HARMONY_2021>meeting on 23-25th March. *

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*The general theme of the sessions will be: Learn to build, visualise, 
analyse and simulate your models using NeuroML.*

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Why take part?


These hackathons will give members of the modelling community the chance to:

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    Get high level introductions to the NeuroML language and toolchain

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    Meet the NeuroML core development team and editors

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    Find out the latest information on which simulators/applications
    support NeuroML

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    Open, discuss and work on issues related to converting your model to
    NeuroML, or supporting NeuroML in your simulator

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    Learn how to share your models with the community


Times and dates


All sessions will be online and take place over 3 hours (9am-noon 
Pacific; 12-3pm EST time; 4-7pm UK/UTC; 5-8pm CET, 9:30pm-12:30am IST; 
note non-standard US/EU time differences that week). The broad focus of 
each of the sessions (dependent on interests of attendees) is:


**Tues 23rd March: Introduction to NeuroML, general questions about usage

**Wed 24th March: Detailed cell/conductance based models (e.g. 
converting channels to NeuroML)

**Thus 25th March: Abstract/point neuron networks including PyNN 
interactions


Registration


To take part in the hackathon, please register at 
http://co.mbine.org/events/HARMONY_2021 
<http://co.mbine.org/events/HARMONY_2021>for the HARMONY meeting 
(registration is free). You will get sent details to access the agenda 
on https://harmony2021.sched.com, which will have links to the Zoom 
sessions for each of the days.


Open an issue beforehand!


While it will be possible to raise and discuss new issues at the 
hackathons, it will be easier to manage and plan work/discussions if you 
open an issue with a description of the problem you are trying to 
address at: https://github.com/NeuroML/NeuroML2/issues 
<https://github.com/NeuroML/NeuroML2/issues>.


Slack


To aid communication with the community during (and after) the meeting, 
we have a Slack channel for NeuroML related discussions. Please reply to 
this mail for an invite.


We look forward to working with the community to drive further uptake of 
NeuroML compliant models and tools!

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Padraig Gleeson
Room 321, Anatomy Building
Department of Neuroscience, Physiology&  Pharmacology
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom

+44 207 679 3214
p.gleeson at ucl.ac.uk
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