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+### Register
+
+If you are interested in participating, please fill out [this short form.](https://forms.gle/Qurc8KkAsRMJbmCi9)
+
+### About
+
+*Spring Brainhack Boston 2024* is inspired by the [BRAIN Initiative CONNECTS program](https://www.ninds.nih.gov/news-events/highlights-announcements/nih-brain-initiative-launches-projects-develop-innovative-technologies-map-brain-incredible-detail), and particularly [CONNECTS projects on multi-modal imaging of fiber tracts](https://reporter.nih.gov/search/3TvO-D_5_0-AyCKL3EMDUg/projects). Topics of potential interest include:
+- Remote computation and visualization for large datasets
+- Integration of imaging data across modalities and scales
+- Standardization and visualization of fiber tract data
+
+### Projects
+
+- See the [open GitHub issues](https://github.com/brainhack-boston/brainhack-boston.github.io/issues).  Feel free to open an issue and describe a project that you are interested in working on!
+
+- Please join our [Mattermost Channel](https://mattermost.brainhack.org/brainhack/channels/bhg23-boston) which will be used during the event.
+
+### Schedule
+- All times below are EST.
+
+#### Monday, April 22nd, 2023
+
+- 9:00am - 9:30am: Coffee and pastries
+- 9:30am - 9:50am: Welcome/intro to CONNECTS multi-modal imaging projects - Anastasia Yendiki
+- 9:50am - 10:10am: [BIDS connectivity standard](https://osf.io/u4g5p/) - Peer Herholz
+- 10:10am - 10:30am: [DANDI archive](https://dandiarchive.org/) - Kabilar Gunalan
+- 10:30am - 10:50am: [Neuroglancer](https://github.com/google/neuroglancer/#readme) - Yael Balbastre
+- 10:50am - 11:00am: Break
+- 11:00am - 11:15am: Project pitches
+- 11:15am - 4:00pm: Unstructured hacking time
+
+#### Tuesday, April 23rd, 2023
+
+- 9:00am - 9:30am: Coffee and pastries
+- 9:30am - 9:50am: [niivue](https://github.com/niivue/niivue#readme) - Chris Rorden [[slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1s8fWo5gkbJEo7Fl7CF1Nb6JWJZqFJ_BgHDsla_WjTx4/)]
+- 9:50am - 10:10am: [TRAKO](https://pypi.org/project/trako/) - Daniel Haehn [[slides](https://slides.com/haehn/brainhack2023)]
+- 10:10am - 10:30am: [brainlife](https://brainlife.io/about/) - Ilaria Sani & Franco Pestilli 
+- 10:30am - 10:50am: freebrowse - Paul Wighton
+- 10:50am - 3:30pm: Unstructured hacking time
+- 3:30pm - 4:00pm: Project summaries
+- 4:00pm - onwards: Social? (TBD)
+
+###  Conduct
+
+[Brainhack is dedicated to providing a harassment-free conference experience for everyone.](https://brainhack.org/code-of-conduct.html)
+
+### Contact
+
+- Email: 
+  - Kabilar Gunalan `[email protected]`
+  - Anastasia Yendiki `[email protected]`
+- [Mattermost Channel](https://mattermost.brainhack.org/brainhack/channels/bhg23-boston)
+
+### Acknowledgements
+
+We would like to thank our funders and institutions for supporting this event.
+
+- NIH BRAIN CONNECTS - The center for Large-scale Imaging of Neural Circuits (LINC) (UM1 NS132358)
+- NIH BRAIN CONNECTS - Center for Mesoscale Connectomics (UM1 NS132207)
+- NIH BRAIN CONNECTS - Mapping connectivity of the human brainstem in a nuclear coordinate system (U01 NS132181)
+- Massachusetts Institute of Technology