OSSIG 2025

General changes

  • Removed three offices (OSR co-chair/elect and Inclusivity chair)
  • Added the office of local liaison
  • Officialized volunteers roles (less involvement, no perks)

Offices

Operations

  • Starting in the previous term, we parallelized teams, activating elects sooner
  • Compiling Operative Procedures for each office and task
  • Opening the 2025 renewal before the Annual Meeting

General activities

  • Revising the sponsorship system to attract a wider range of potential sponsors (<1000$ in-kind or small donation for local businesses)
  • Starting to reach out to sponsors in mid-November

Treasury

Transparency

  • We will publish our 2025 final budget and a summary of the renewal process

Community involvement

  • Symposium on issues in reproducibility from data acquisition to analysis
  • Educational (collab. with SEASIG) on sustainable and reproducible research
  • Supporting the organization of an Open Neuroscience workshop in Taiwan

OHBM Brainhack

  • 110 in person (30 online) participant
  • 19 projects, 14 unconferences
  • 5 trainings, 4 panels

2024

OHBM Brainhack

  • Setting up 200+ in person for Brisbane
  • Restructuring as an "event platform" for communities to organise gatherings relying on our organization, starting with the NeuroStatistics Workshop
  • Collaborations with BASIG and SEASIG

2025: Plans

  • Two possible venues
  • Registration opening at abstract notification
  • Two potential sponsors targetted (of which one might move to AM)

2025: Logistics

Open Science Room

  • ~ 150 in person attendees across all activities (low), ~30-40 online
  • 5 panels, 5 table talks, 5 emergent sessions, 1 "open mic"
  • Hybrid panels and participants

2024

Open Science Room

  • Aiming at restoring bottom-up activities as main activities in Brisbane (emergent sessions and table talks)
  • Aiming at reintroducing OSR fouier (Open-Science working area)

2025: Aims

  • Hosting a panel in collaboration with ESMRMB (MRITogether) and the ISMRM Reproducibile Research Study Group (currently seeking endorsement)
  • Hosting the reproducibility challenge event (pending)
  • Hosting a panel on OSSIG activities in OSR

2025: Highlights

Aperture Neuro (Special Issue)

  • We aim at increasing the involvement of the OS community with Aperture Neuro in collaboration with its editorial team

Aims

Special Issue

  • Special Issue on Open Datasets
  • 4 tentative submissions (2 ok'd), inviting authors starting mid-November

Community involvement

  • Potential paper (SEASIG collab) on reproducible and sustainable science
  • Proceedings of Brainhack 2023 and 2024 in the making
  • Starting with 2024, the OSR will also compile proceedings

Inter-societies OS virtual seminar

  • Q1 of 2025 to increase whole-year community involvement
  • In collaboration with ISMRM (RRSG), and ESMRMB (MRITogether)
  • Topic: Community development for open research

SIGs chairs meetings

We started a set of quarterly meetings within the SIGs chairs to improve our collaborations and activities efficiency

Reproducibility Challenge

  • Networking experience facilitated by the OSSIG
  • Based on submitted abstracts (and derivatives like publications)

What

  • Aims at improving both the reproduction and the reproducibility of scientific results involving both "replicants" and "original authors"

Why

  • Pilot in 2025, first edition from 2024 to 2026, evaluation and repetition after
  • In collaboration with ISMRM (RRSG), hosts of the challenge for 3 years

How (overall)

Reproducibility Challenge

  1. Original Authors (OA) submit an abstract to OHBM, opting in for "reproduction"
  2. Their submission is recorded and shown on the OSSIG website
  3. At the annual meeting their abstracts are marked with the challenge logo
  4. A party of "reproducers" (RP) team up with the OA party, forming a team
  5. The RP takes all available information and data (if possible), and without further help from OA, they attempt to reproduce and/or generalise the results
  6. The team submits an abstract for the following annual meeting
  7. The outcome is not only scored on interesting results, but also on procedures
  8. The OSR hosts an oral session on results and challenges in reproduction

How

Reproducibility Challenge

  1. Modify the submission portal for challenge opt-ins
  2. Notify the OSSIG of submissions
  3. Advertise the challenge at the opening of the annual meeting
  4. Accept up to three nominations for the Reproduciblity Award
  5. Possibly, a few waives/discounts for the parties
  6. Possibly, costs to submit the best results to Aperture Neuro

Help needed

OSSIG 2025

Always open for collaborations with Coms and SIGs!