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Dear MEG community, We are now voting for the inaugural BIDS Steering Group! Vote on the Google form <https://forms.gle/YT5SvPgACHhVvf6x8> You can check the members of each slate here: BIDS Steering Group <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yb6j3a90serWbtab7ukSMyecs16sGfYTSGftH-4ArvA/edit> Ensure the MEG community gets represented! Voting closes October 15, 2019 at 11:59pm Pacific Daylight Time (UTC -7). Remember to validate the email :) The adoption of BIDS Governance document <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R-J2lL9V_wIkYhye4zH-feyl4P4J8NyO40rIYyY141o/edit> will be also ratified in the same form. Thanks for taking the time to vote! *Julia Guiomar Niso Galán, PhD* -- *Center for Biomedical Technology* Universidad Politécnica de Madrid On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 at 18:50, Franklin Feingold <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > The time has come to vote on our BIDS Governance document > <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R-J2lL9V_wIkYhye4zH-feyl4P4J8NyO40rIYyY141o/edit> > and for the inaugural Steering Group > <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yb6j3a90serWbtab7ukSMyecs16sGfYTSGftH-4ArvA/edit>! > Voting opens today (October 1) and runs through October 15, 2019, closing > at 11:59pm Pacific Daylight Time (UTC -7). Votes will be recorded using a Google > form <https://forms.gle/YT5SvPgACHhVvf6x8> and a separate form for email > validation > <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1zr-w3M2K7ApaW3yePXNRc1zYMhIiDsOVnG15nJ1sgx4/edit> > to make sure the vote is confirmed. The forms have been created separately > to dissociate contact information from voting information, and no attempt > will be made to re-associate these data. Contact information will be used > to ensure that the number of votes matches the number of voters, making > fraudulent voting easier to detect. The verification form allows voters to > opt-in to having their email retained for this purpose. All email addresses > will be deleted immediately once the election results have been verified, > with the exception of voters who opt to have their email address retained. > > Ratification of the Governance Document is a mandatory vote, with “Yes” > indicating approval of the document, and “No” indicating rejection. A > simple majority of “Yes” votes will ratify the document. Failure to achieve > a majority will nullify the election. > > Steering Group candidates are organized into slates of five candidates, > and the winning slate will form the inaugural Steering Group. Slates are > voted on according to a ranked ballot, with the preferred slate ranked as > “1”, second choice as “2”, and so on. Votes will be tabulated according > to the instant-runoff > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting>method. A ballot > will be considered invalid if multiple slates receive the same rank. > > In addition, we are getting very close to finalizing our BIDS-Derivatives > extension! We are looking for more feedback from community! The relevant > conversations can be found in a GitHub pull request > <https://github.com/bids-standard/bids-specification/pull/265>. This pull > request has identified a few conversations left to reach a consensus before > the final review! > > If you are interested in particular modalities in BIDS, we have > established teams on GitHub > <https://github.com/bids-standard/bids-specification/issues/285> to more > easily follow the conversations that are most relevant to you! We also have a > starter kit <https://github.com/bids-standard/bids-starter-kit> to help > you get started using BIDS or finding ways to contribute to the effort! > > If you have any questions regarding this process or BIDS please feel free > to email Franklin ([log in to unmask]) > > Thank you in advance for taking the time to vote! > > Franklin > > -- > We are all colleagues working together to shape brain imaging for > tomorrow, please be respectful, gracious, and patient with your fellow > group members. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "bids-discussion" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [log in to unmask] > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bids-discussion/4e9bf415-afc3-467b-9c0e-ec20fe9fcefd%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bids-discussion/4e9bf415-afc3-467b-9c0e-ec20fe9fcefd%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the MEGCOMMUNITY list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MEGCOMMUNITY&A=1