I like your idea about reviewing tools based on best practices, and having developers looped in on how things can be improved. Alongside, a good part of our focus should also be directed towards publicizing existing tools, and educating the community about these. A listing such as the GitHub page (https://github.com/asoplata/open-computational-neuroscience-resources) is useful in what it does, but very limited in what if offers. For sure, we would require a lot of volunteers/curators to keep any of this upto date. So we would need to see how many signup to be a part of the SIG. I would be very keen to see the SIG help disseminate tools by conducting periodic events, such as bi-weekly online sessions where the authors of a particular tool have a short (~30 mins) presentation and demo about their tool. The recordings of these can then be made available on a OCNS SIG YouTube channel for even future users to get a quick glimpse of the various tools.
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