BIDS @ BrainHack 2026 (Announcement and call for contributions)

[bids maintenance]

Dear BIDS Community,

We are excited to announce that BIDS will be at this year's BrainHack in Bordeaux, June 11-13!

If you'll be at BrainHack, please get involved! There are a few things planned:

We'd like to group BIDS-related project pitches on the first day. If you're planning on pitching something BIDSy and want to be included in that batch, you should:

(a) Register your project on the BrainHack web page: https://ohbm.github.io/hackathon2026/#hacktrack.

(b) Add one (1) slide to the project pitches section of our slide deck: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1DPWlIJcRx2OxieGjjx57u8sIoiBcTWDUBF-odHmR1Kc/edit. (In order to respect the time of BrainHack attendees, we will limit our pitches to 1 slide and 1 minute each.)

We are also going to have TrainTrack sessions on the afternoon/evening of Day 2 (June 12). Tentatively, we'll have three afternoon sessions:

1:30-2:15: Introduction/Getting started with BIDS - This will be a presentation put together by the BIDS maintainers and steering groups.

2:20-3:05: Getting involved with BIDS -  The second session will discuss ways of contributing to the BIDS ecosystem, such as writing tutorials, libraries, BIDS Apps or BEPs.

3:10-3:55: Hands-on demos / Helpdesk / Q&A - The third session will be an opportunity to have break-out sessions where people can demonstrate their tools, and others will be available to help people with general questions or specific problems.

For these second and third sessions in particular, we'd love for any community members who will be attending the BrainHack to show up and share their perspectives, experience and tools. There are spaces in the slide deck for you to contribute to these sessions. We frequently get asked how to convert data to BIDS, so folks who can demo BIDS converter tools are especially encouraged to add slides in the "Hands-on Demos" section.

Finally, we will have an evening session from 5:30-7:00. We anticipate this being a time for continued in-depth engagement or niche topics, but we intend to keep this relatively unstructured to allow for organic development.

If you have other ideas or would like to help in planning, please don't hesitate to reach out!

(Please note that this workshop is not the BIDS Town Hall. That will be organized separately, and probably online.)

On behalf of the workshop organizers,

Chris Markiewicz

[Paola Di Maio]

Chris and everyone

first of all THANKS for opening the thread on the mailing list. Email posts get to me easier than Gh

Coming from another planet, I landed on the tools page to see what is new

https://bids.neuroimaging.io/tools/bids-apps.html

and could not make sense of it,  BIDs language has become even more complex since last time I looked at it

I have therefore created a tutorial for the event,as issue, and now working on micro explainers for each BIDS app, with each pipeline made

into a learning opportunity and examples to run in the browser

https://github.com/ohbm/hackathon2026/issues/24

Please feel free to contact me if you d like to collaborate with me on this project and do not hesitate to send corrections

PDM (Starborn)

https://starborn.github.io/

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We are all colleagues working together to shape brain imaging for tomorrow, please be respectful, gracious, and patient with your fellow group members.
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[Karel Lopez]

Hi Chris, and everyone,

Thank you for opening this thread and for sharing the plans for the BIDS activities at BrainHack.

I would be very happy to contribute a short demo of BIDS Manager during the BIDS workshop, especially in the “Hands-on demos / Helpdesk / Q&A” session.

BIDS Manager is a GUI-driven tool for interactive raw-to-BIDS conversion and curation across MRI, MEG, and EEGdatasets. It is designed to help users inspect metadata, make curation decisions, preview the future BIDS structure, run conversion, and review or validate the resulting dataset within one workflow.

Tool repository: 

https://github.com/ANCPLabOldenburg/BIDS-Manager

Preliminary BrainHack page: 

https://karellopez.github.io/INDoS_BrainHack/

I am also planning to submit a separate Deeper TrainTrack in the morning of June 12 focused on BIDS Manager. However, since the TrainTrack programme is still subject to review and room/timing coordination, I think it would be useful to also present a shorter demo within the BIDS workshop itself. This could help connect the tool with the broader BIDS community and give participants interested in conversion tools a chance to see it in the context of the wider BIDS ecosystem.

Would it be appropriate for me to add one or a few slides to the “Hands-on Demos” section of the deck?

Best wishes,
Karel