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+# CON projects audit — what the US-RSE talk does *not* mention
+
+Source comparison: `gh api orgs/con/repos` (active, non-archived) **vs.**
+projects named in `2026-usrse-con-talk.html` and `talk-proposal-draft.md`.
+Also covers projects that *were* in older CON talks but dropped from the
+current US-RSE deck, plus a few key external/CON-external projects worth
+re-considering.
+
+- First sweep: 2026-05-10.
+- **Refreshed 2026-05-11** after applying the original recommendations
+  1–5 and adding the Automate / SciOps mapping.
+
+
+## Currently named in the US-RSE deck / proposal
+
+### CON repos and CON-led projects
+**con/duct**, **con/serve**, **con/validation**, **con/tinuous**,
+**con/skills**, **con/yolo**, **con/citations-collector**,
+**con/nwb2bids**, **con/annextube** (AnnexTube),
+**registry.datalad.org**, **concepts.datalad.org**,
+**open-brain-consent (OBC)** — referenced in the Standardize section
+and Acknowledgements; **shub** mirror — visible by URL in the Automate
+section but not named as the repo `con/shub`.
+
+### DataLad family + extensions
+DataLad core; `git`+`git-annex`; datalad-container, -crawler, -fuse,
+-neuroimaging, -next, -osf, -ukbiobank, -xnat, -extension-template;
+`datalad run` / `containers-run`; DataLad Handbook.
+
+### Standards & community projects (CON-adjacent)
+BIDS, NWB, DANDI, OpenNeuro, EMBER, BIDS-Apps (mriqc, fmriprep),
+LinkML, pydantic, JSON Schema, SHACL, HED, vjsf, shacl-vue,
+ReproIn, HeuDiConv, NeuroConv, ReproStim, ReproNim/containers,
+ReproMan, NeuroDebian, PyMVPA, duecredit, citeproc-py, nwbinspector,
+pynwb, zarr, OME-Zarr.
+
+### Frameworks / principles (now load-bearing)
+**STAMPED** (per-artifact, Macdonald *et al.* 2026) and **SciOps**
+(team-operations CMM, Johnson *et al.* 2024) — mapped to the 5-verb
+spine: Reuse / Compose / Extend / Standardize ≈ L3, Automate ≈ L4,
+AI-in-the-loop ≈ L5. Plus **YODA**, **FAIR**, and the **AI-coding
+ladder** (companion talk).
+
+### External tools / collaborators
+brainlife.io, CBRAIN, CONP, Kitware (NWB tooling), MetaCell NWB
+Explorer, neurobagel, Datasette, VisiData, Hexagonal Architecture
+(Cockburn 2005), GoF Design Patterns, Fowler's PoEAA,
+Eric Evans (DDD Smart UI anti-pattern), distribits, ReproTube.
+
+
+## Status of original recommendations
+
+| # | Project | Status | Where it now appears |
+|---|---------|--------|----------------------|
+| 1 | `con/tinuous` | **Applied** | Automate § "Where we automate" + timeline (2019 milestone) + Monday checklist |
+| 2 | `con/yolo` + `con/skills` | **Applied** | Timeline 2024+ row; Automate § meta-automation slide; HI+AI cross-ref |
+| 3 | `con/citations-collector` | **Applied** | Reuse § (continuation of duecredit; feeds dandi-bib) |
+| 4 | `con/nwb2bids` | **Applied** | Compose § small-units table + MVC Controllers row |
+| 5 | `OBC` (open-brain-consent) | **Applied** | Standardize § "schemas as first-class citizens" + retained in logo strip |
+| 6 | `fail2ban` | **Deferred** | Mentioned in `SOUL.md §1` Extend bullet, not in the deck — recommended for the BoF, not the 15-min talk |
+
+
+## Active CON repos *still* not named (gap list, refreshed)
+
+### Worth a one-liner if space opens up
+
+- **`con/external-services`** — *Registry of external services to use
+  for YOUR hosted files*. Direct match for the "Federate, don't
+  recentralize" thread; could be a sentence next to `registry.datalad.org`
+  in the Compose section.
+- **`con/shub`** — *GitHub mirror of `datasets.datalad.org/?dir=/shub`*.
+  Currently only visible via a `?dir=/shub` link in the Automate-section
+  container-building row; the repo itself isn't named. Quintessential
+  Reuse-in-reverse + archive story — could be promoted to a named line.
+- **`con/noisseur`** — *Automated verification of entered/displayed
+  information*. Concept-stage; cited in `2022-nih-compcore.html` as
+  "Beyond ReproIn". A one-line nod under Controllers / acquisition
+  would round out the ReproIn / HeuDiConv / ReproStim family.
+- **`con/upptime`** — *Uptime of CON websites & services*. Tiny but a
+  cheap "View on the operations Model" example for the MVC Views slide.
+- **`con/flux`** — *Map of `git`/`git-annex` clones of a repository*.
+  Maps to the federation/discovery story; pair with `registry.datalad.org`.
+- **`datalad-installer`** — was in `2024-distribits-datalad.html` § "To
+  provide peace to developers and users for deployment". Concrete
+  Reuse / distribution / multi-platform evidence; not load-bearing
+  for the US-RSE story but a natural Acknowledgements name.
+
+### Long-running maintenance work, not in the talk
+
+- **`fail2ban`** — Halchenko is co-maintainer; canonical "we stayed
+  on as upstream maintainer" example. *In `SOUL.md` but not the deck.*
+  Recommended for a BoF / longer talk, not the 15-min US-RSE slot.
+- **`psychtoolbox-3-debian`** — long-running Debian-Med packaging;
+  same audience-fit call as fail2ban.
+
+### Mentioned in older talks, dropped from this one (deliberate)
+
+- **PyMVPA-on-phone** punchline (`2022-nih-compcore.html`) — the
+  "12.5 hours to happy time" deployment-pain story that motivated
+  NeuroDebian. Cut for length; appropriate to drop.
+- **Phantom QA / Nuisance study** (Cheng & Halchenko, F1000 2020) —
+  excellent Trust/Variance content for an NIH audience, but off-topic
+  for US-RSE. Keep in references only.
+- **Decentralized RDM** (Hanke *et al.*, Neuroforum 2021) — cited in
+  SOUL.md §5 canonical citations, not in the deck.
+
+### CON-internal / niche — probably keep skipping
+
+`CONveyor`, `catenate`, `cierge`, `communitator`, `con-intro`,
+`demos`, `docflow`, `duct-gallery`, `ference`, `fscacher`,
+`git-annex-log-stats`, `journals`, `jsdownloader`, `job`,
+`liab-deployments`, `mind_2018`, `opfvta-reexecution`, `quest`,
+`scripts`, `serve-liab`, `serve-actions`,
+`serve-wayback-archive-demo`, `shell-chronicle`, `solidation`,
+`sparkle-tools`, `taxonomy-site-sandbox`, `tents`, `tinuous-inception`,
+`tinuous-template`, `tinuum`, `try-aind-1`, `tube`, `tributors`,
+`vandermeerlab-to-bids`, `versations`, `visidata-demos`,
+`work-history-data`. Some are namedrop-worthy if a future slide is
+already on the topic (e.g. `visidata-demos` if a VisiData live demo
+gets added; `vandermeerlab-to-bids` if BEP-032 comes up).
+
+
+## What's gained since the first sweep (2026-05-10 → 2026-05-11)
+
+Beyond the audit-driven additions (1)–(5), the deck has grown three
+substantial pieces that didn't exist in the first sweep and that
+*were* the chief reason the audit asked for con/tinuous etc.:
+
+- **5-verb spine with Automate** — Reuse / Compose / Extend /
+  Standardize / **Automate** now appears in the title, spine slide,
+  timeline, every section, the Monday checklist, and the sign-off.
+- **A full Automate section** — 4 slides: opener + "Where we
+  automate" + "Cost: harnesses → meta-automation via AI" + **"The
+  five verbs climb the SciOps ladder"** (the new SciOps L1–L5
+  mapping slide, with the L3 exemplar list — BIDS / NWB / DataLad /
+  DANDI / brainlife.io — that Johnson *et al.* themselves call out).
+- **SciOps + STAMPED as load-bearing references** — STAMPED is
+  cited canonically (Macdonald, Baker, To & Halchenko, 2026, with
+  the full Self-containment / Tracking / Actionability / Modularity /
+  Portability / Ephemerality / Distributability expansion); SciOps
+  is cited canonically (Johnson *et al.*, 2024) and framed as the
+  *team-level* maturity ladder complementing STAMPED's *per-artifact*
+  properties. The proposal abstract weaves the 5-verb ↔ SciOps L1–L5
+  mapping into the framing paragraph.
+
+These together — not the individual project namedrops — are the
+substantive shift the audit needed to acknowledge.
+
+
+## Updated recommendation summary
+
+The list of project namedrops to *still* add is now short and
+optional. In priority order (each is a single line):
+
+1. **`con/shub`** — promote from a `?dir=/shub` URL to a named repo
+   line in the Automate section's container-building row. One word
+   change, very on-spine (Reuse-in-reverse + archive). *Recommend
+   doing this.*
+2. **`con/external-services`** — one cell in the Compose section
+   right after `registry.datalad.org`, framing it as a "federation
+   registry, plain text, no service required". *Recommend.*
+3. **`datalad-installer`** — one line in Acknowledgements (or in the
+   Reuse → Extend distribution bullet). *Marginal.*
+4. **`con/noisseur`** — drop in only if the Compose § acquisition
+   row needs more concreteness. *Skip for 15-min US-RSE.*
+5. **`con/upptime`** / **`con/flux`** — fine to skip; cheap mentions
+   if the MVC Views slide opens up. *Skip.*
+6. **`fail2ban`** / **`psychtoolbox-3-debian`** — save for the BoF.
+
+The audit no longer recommends anything that materially changes the
+talk's shape; (1)–(2) are the only worthwhile micro-edits.