BrainWeb

[katjaq]

BrainWeb. A permanent place for hacking together.

Team:
Katja, Roberto, Anibal, Remi, Isil, Austin, Sofie
project lead: katja

Timezone:
UTC+2
(Paris, France)

Hub:
Europe, Middle East and Africa

Description:

In a team effort across continents, we recently created the BrainWeb, a permanent virtual space for online collaborations on projects related to neuroscience.
It has built so quickly a large community of >200 members, that this is the current community graph:
https://brain-web.github.io/community/

We also have a a projects page

And we now also host our own BrainWeb-jitsi for community calls, where we can send love ❤️ and brains 🧠 , rockets 🚀 and more love 💕 .

Now how can we improve the BrainWeb? During this Hackathon, we would like to

1 add the possibility to filter the community graph by skills, so that we can easily find people to collaborate with – either based on shared interests or to add skills to our team that we are lacking

2 add all BrainWeb videoconference rooms in a sidebar on the page, and indicators of occupancy for all of them, like a green dot if there's someone in

3 add a posters room. The problem: How to improve the online poster room experience? How can we approach the stuff we miss from real poster rooms? Which are the new things we can have in a virtual, permanent, poster room? @katja showed a possibility that would be fun to explore, hacking MicroDraw.

4 by embedding jitsi in our videoconference tab, we have access to a shared data channel. We are currently using it to send emojis, but this is just a tiny starting point. We could use the data channel to synchronise quite sophisticated shared experiences! For example, a presenter could share a 3D brain (cf @dr.alecrimi)

If you'd love to work with us on the BrainWeb, join us on Mattermost ~brainweb, and find our GitHub repo here.

Looking forward to hacking with all of you! 🌞 ❤️

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