I wanted to draw your attention on the upcoming 2012 Brainhack, 1st edition, to be held from September 1-4 at the Max Plank Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany. Brainhack is not a conference or a workshop. It should be closer to one of those exciting conversations you may have had at HBM during cocktail or poster sessions. Except that we will have over three days to build up those conversations into full-fledge collaborations. One should come to brainhack ready to engage into collaborative projects, and with some material (slides, ideas, data, tools) ready to start a project or a discussion panel. Brainhack will build on the successful techniques used in other unconferences to keep the meeting focussed and productive. It is possible to start a project and build a team as early as today. Please have a look at the website for informations on the conference and a sample of projects (more will be added over the summer):

The list of confirmed attendees includes F. Xavier Castellanos, Michael Hanke, Michael P. Milham, Tal Yarkoni, Arno Villringer, and many members of the neurobureau. Brainhack is a satellite of the resting-state connectivity conference. Although many participants will have an interest in connectivity analysis, there will also be attendees coming from a variety of backgrounds within neuroscience. Registration is now opened: