- Becca Wilson
- Andrei Morgan
- Stuart Wheater
- Tom Bishop
- Angela Pinot de Moira
- Manuel Huth
- Morris Swertz
- Juan Ramon Gonzalez
- Jan Hasenauer
- Simon Parker
2024-11-06 - these were agreed and the page was made public.
- Conference 23rd-26th September 2025, University of Lausanne Campus, Lausanne, Switzerland - hosts setting up registration process
- next meeting with hosts 16th January 2025 - any members who want to join let Paula know to forward the zoom invite
- Last call for invited speakers - see list here
- possible speakers - industry, 2 public members of DAB. view from a lawyer's perspective and someone from a funding body
- improving coverage testing support - integrated in ds.survival
- draft certification framework has been started
- using Docker Scout to check for any vulnerabilities - issues with Docker Scout scanning over 3 repositories becomes expensive - currently using 1 Armadillo, 1 OPAL and 1 analytic package
- need a page to indicate what software has been tested to what standard and this page needs to be maintained
- roadmap for 7.0 version
- DS 6.3.1 released before christmas
- got GitHub repository for 6.4, changes in 6.3.2 improved tooling - bit of work still to be completed on 6.7
- version 7 to be put in CRAN. If put in ds.base could help people with disclosure support
- Manuel to step back from co-lead - possibly Florian will take over - Manuel to confirm with Florian. Will still attend Stats Theme meetings - Manuel to ask Florian and Demetris who wants to join steering committee. Manuel happy to stay on steering committee, possibly as an observer
- new version OPAL 5.0.3 being used for testing
- new version of Armadillo to be finalised
- minimise effort to get DS deployed by others will help DataSHIELD - a page which outlines testing on software is important to have/maintain
- funding for 2 years for OBIBA demo server
- Zoom vs Teams vs Google meet? What is preferred option. NHS sometimes have difficulties in zoom, linux users sometimes issues in teams. Potentially there may be funding available to have an independant subscription to something for DataSHIELD BUT funding is limited, so only for a couple of years. How would we make this sustainable? - pros and cons to Teams and Zoom - will discuss further in next Comms Theme meeting
- save the date post for conference released on social media platforms
- Newsletter - Angela to follow up with people who need to write a paragraph. Any annoucements send to Anglea to compile - initial post of newsletter on LinkedIn then Angela will investigate other platforms to post on
- members who have not participated still need to be contacted by the relevant people
- need a Lead for the Risk Response team who will then recruit members
- work ongoing on quality assurance process, need to build on Tom's work
- discussions on having a legal entity for DataSHIELD have started - website should belong to DataSHIELD and not a university - futher discussions need to take place on this matter - Becca happy to be involved in the financial planning for this
- Andrei to send Becca/Paula invite to next governance meeting
- Juan has agreed to be an observer on the steering committee and will talk to Tim
- need to think about workshops for this year's conference
- Tim to update tutorials
- Training for WordPress to be arranged for editors (Andrei, Tim, Tom and Stuart) by Becca - Paula to send out a Doodle Poll
- changing of strucure/content of website done by above after feedback from group
- dont need to duplicate information on website and wiki
Horizon calls:
- HORIZON-HLTH-2025-01-ENVHLTH-01 - Living and working in a health-promoting environment. The impact of pollution on the development and progression of brain diseases and disorders. Opens 22-May-25 Closes 18-Sep-25
- HORIZON-HLTH-2025-01-ENVHLTH-02 Living and working in a health-promoting environment. Advancing knowledge on the impacts of micro- and nano plastics on human health Opens 22-May-25 Closes 18-Sep-25
- Becca comments - non science driven perspective > could provide a route for maintenance, upgrading of collective DatasHIELD infrasrtuctures plus....
- New statistical and computational methods for: federated geospatial and imaging analyses, technical data governance
- New applications for: privacy-preserving data linkage, privacy preserving graphical analysis/visualisations
- Relevant UK data for applications/science driven side for either call is available at Imperial and Liverpool.
- Manuel to check with Juan if he could apply
- Angela interested to participate
- A smaller meeting to take place after this meeting to discuss further
- Becca to send follow up email to Morris, Eleanor & Juan
- had discussions re updating ToR for Board, hoping to finalise these at next meeting
- conisdering areas for DAB to make active contributions to DataSHIELD i.e. specific projects they would like to work on
- couple of members, with experience, have expressed an interest in supporting efforts to possibly set up a legal entity for DataSHIELD. If Andrei needs to reach out contact Simon in the first instance.
- Any actions from last meeting not completed i.e. contacting non participating board members
- Manuel to check with Florian for him to take over as co lead
- Andrei to send Becca/Paula invite to next governance meeting
- Angela to compile annoucements for newsletter
- All - last called for speakers at conference - suggestions to be put forward
- Tim to update education tutorials
- Becca to send follow up emails to Juan, Morris and Eleanor re: Horizon future calls
- Manuel to check with Juan if he can apply for the Horizon calls
- Andrei, Stuart, Tim and Tom to have WordPress Training from Becca - time and date to be confirmed.
- Andrei if needed reach out to Simon re: DAB members for discussions on legal entity for DS
- tech core meetings proposal - 1 meeting per month to be outward facing to encourage people further afield to attend - extending meeting to 2 hours and have an agenda for content - Stuart to organise - good to use for talks ie OPAL, Molgennis, governance, IT etc
- Monday 3rd March 2025 1-3pm (uk time)