From p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com  Sat Feb 12 12:30:32 2011
From: p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com (Peter Cock)
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 17:30:32 +0000
Subject: [BioSQL-l] Spam on the wiki
Message-ID: <AANLkTin3+jtNWashDozVyP6FEYrwrbOadnvMmM1fLivw@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all,

Several of the OBF hosted wiki pages have suffered from spam recently,
including BioSQL, see:
http://www.biosql.org/wiki/Special:AllPages

I've been keeping the Biopython wiki under control, and I know BioPerl
folk have been busy too. Stricter controls on account creation are
being looked at to stop this happening in future, but in the mean time
I'll volunteer to remove the spam and block the existing bad accounts
*if* someone can give me admin rights on the BioSQL wiki too (wiki
username Peter).

Thanks,

Peter
(Biopython)

From hlapp at gmx.net  Sun Feb 13 13:13:04 2011
From: hlapp at gmx.net (Hilmar Lapp)
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:13:04 -0500
Subject: [BioSQL-l] Spam on the wiki
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin3+jtNWashDozVyP6FEYrwrbOadnvMmM1fLivw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <AANLkTin3+jtNWashDozVyP6FEYrwrbOadnvMmM1fLivw@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <5BA2301E-D79E-4644-8D97-6B9626B7A86B@gmx.net>

Hi Peter,

I've cleaned up the wiki now (I think), and blocked the offending  
users (which of course won't stop any spammers from signing up  
afresh). I'll happily take you up on your offer to help out and gave  
you the same permissions as I have.

	-hilmar

On Feb 12, 2011, at 12:30 PM, Peter Cock wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Several of the OBF hosted wiki pages have suffered from spam recently,
> including BioSQL, see:
> http://www.biosql.org/wiki/Special:AllPages
>
> I've been keeping the Biopython wiki under control, and I know BioPerl
> folk have been busy too. Stricter controls on account creation are
> being looked at to stop this happening in future, but in the mean time
> I'll volunteer to remove the spam and block the existing bad accounts
> *if* someone can give me admin rights on the BioSQL wiki too (wiki
> username Peter).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter
> (Biopython)

-- 
===========================================================
: Hilmar Lapp  -:-  Durham, NC  -:-  hlapp at gmx dot net :
===========================================================






From p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com  Sun Feb 13 13:18:41 2011
From: p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com (Peter Cock)
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 18:18:41 +0000
Subject: [BioSQL-l] Spam on the wiki
In-Reply-To: <5BA2301E-D79E-4644-8D97-6B9626B7A86B@gmx.net>
References: <AANLkTin3+jtNWashDozVyP6FEYrwrbOadnvMmM1fLivw@mail.gmail.com>
	<5BA2301E-D79E-4644-8D97-6B9626B7A86B@gmx.net>
Message-ID: <AANLkTim3+H+wtWD8VLXzXV0LVXMPwy6a--1XF5dz4K7+@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Hilmar Lapp <hlapp at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> I've cleaned up the wiki now (I think), and blocked the offending users
> (which of course won't stop any spammers from signing up afresh). I'll
> happily take you up on your offer to help out and gave you the same
> permissions as I have.
>
> ? ? ? ?-hilmar

Thanks :)

For monitoring the Biopython wiki I find it useful to subscribe to the
RSS/Atom feed for the recent changes page, in this case:
http://www.biosql.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges

e.g. http://www.biosql.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&feed=rss

Of course, that's not very helpful if you don't already use a newsreader.

Peter


From chapmanb at 50mail.com  Thu Feb 24 13:27:21 2011
From: chapmanb at 50mail.com (Brad Chapman)
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:27:21 -0500
Subject: [BioSQL-l] BOSC 2011 topic organizers and Codefest
Message-ID: <20110224182721.GP20125@sobchak.mgh.harvard.edu>

Hi all;
This year the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) will be taking
place in Vienna, Austria on July 15-16th. This is a yearly opportunity for
open source bioinformatics developers to get together in person and discuss
on-going projects. Nomi Harris, Peter Rice and the other organizing committee
members are already hard at work planning for the conference:

http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2011

The call for abstracts opens next Monday, and extends through April
18th, and we've been brainstorming potential session topics. This
year we've tried to focus each of the sessions around a particular
biological problem or computational approach. We hope this will draw
some interesting parallels between work being done in different groups,
and encourage even more collaboration.

We are actively looking for community members who are interested in heading up
the organization of a topic. The general idea is to build a cohesive set of talks
within a session. How you'd like to do this is completely flexible but some of
the ideas we've been discussing are:

- Having a short introductory talk to provide an overview of an area, framing
  the different talks within this context.
- Forgoing individual question/answer and instead combining this time into a
  longer panel-style discussion with all of the speakers. This would help
  stimulate back and forth between the different projects and the
  audience.

If you are interested in a particular topic and would like to help with the
organization, please send an e-mail to the BOSC mailing list: 
bosc at lists.open-bio.org. We're also open to new topic suggestions, and will
look to add one or two more topics to our current list.

Finally, there will be a two day coding session prior to BOSC as a follow up
to last year's fun and productive Codefest:

http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/Codefest_2011

The Metalab, a unique hacker space in Vienna, has kindly agreed to host
us for the two days. If you are at all interested, please add your name
to the attendees list on the wiki. Since the Metalab organizers don't
know us personally, we'd like to demonstrate there is interest and that we'll
really show up with a bunch of bioinformatics hackers. More details will be in
the works as the summer draws closer.

Looking forward to the sound of music,
Brad

From p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com  Sat Feb 12 17:30:32 2011
From: p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com (Peter Cock)
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 17:30:32 +0000
Subject: [BioSQL-l] Spam on the wiki
Message-ID: <AANLkTin3+jtNWashDozVyP6FEYrwrbOadnvMmM1fLivw@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all,

Several of the OBF hosted wiki pages have suffered from spam recently,
including BioSQL, see:
http://www.biosql.org/wiki/Special:AllPages

I've been keeping the Biopython wiki under control, and I know BioPerl
folk have been busy too. Stricter controls on account creation are
being looked at to stop this happening in future, but in the mean time
I'll volunteer to remove the spam and block the existing bad accounts
*if* someone can give me admin rights on the BioSQL wiki too (wiki
username Peter).

Thanks,

Peter
(Biopython)


From hlapp at gmx.net  Sun Feb 13 18:13:04 2011
From: hlapp at gmx.net (Hilmar Lapp)
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:13:04 -0500
Subject: [BioSQL-l] Spam on the wiki
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin3+jtNWashDozVyP6FEYrwrbOadnvMmM1fLivw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <AANLkTin3+jtNWashDozVyP6FEYrwrbOadnvMmM1fLivw@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <5BA2301E-D79E-4644-8D97-6B9626B7A86B@gmx.net>

Hi Peter,

I've cleaned up the wiki now (I think), and blocked the offending  
users (which of course won't stop any spammers from signing up  
afresh). I'll happily take you up on your offer to help out and gave  
you the same permissions as I have.

	-hilmar

On Feb 12, 2011, at 12:30 PM, Peter Cock wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Several of the OBF hosted wiki pages have suffered from spam recently,
> including BioSQL, see:
> http://www.biosql.org/wiki/Special:AllPages
>
> I've been keeping the Biopython wiki under control, and I know BioPerl
> folk have been busy too. Stricter controls on account creation are
> being looked at to stop this happening in future, but in the mean time
> I'll volunteer to remove the spam and block the existing bad accounts
> *if* someone can give me admin rights on the BioSQL wiki too (wiki
> username Peter).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter
> (Biopython)

-- 
===========================================================
: Hilmar Lapp  -:-  Durham, NC  -:-  hlapp at gmx dot net :
===========================================================







From p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com  Sun Feb 13 18:18:41 2011
From: p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com (Peter Cock)
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 18:18:41 +0000
Subject: [BioSQL-l] Spam on the wiki
In-Reply-To: <5BA2301E-D79E-4644-8D97-6B9626B7A86B@gmx.net>
References: <AANLkTin3+jtNWashDozVyP6FEYrwrbOadnvMmM1fLivw@mail.gmail.com>
	<5BA2301E-D79E-4644-8D97-6B9626B7A86B@gmx.net>
Message-ID: <AANLkTim3+H+wtWD8VLXzXV0LVXMPwy6a--1XF5dz4K7+@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Hilmar Lapp <hlapp at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> I've cleaned up the wiki now (I think), and blocked the offending users
> (which of course won't stop any spammers from signing up afresh). I'll
> happily take you up on your offer to help out and gave you the same
> permissions as I have.
>
> ? ? ? ?-hilmar

Thanks :)

For monitoring the Biopython wiki I find it useful to subscribe to the
RSS/Atom feed for the recent changes page, in this case:
http://www.biosql.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges

e.g. http://www.biosql.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&feed=rss

Of course, that's not very helpful if you don't already use a newsreader.

Peter



From chapmanb at 50mail.com  Thu Feb 24 18:27:21 2011
From: chapmanb at 50mail.com (Brad Chapman)
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:27:21 -0500
Subject: [BioSQL-l] BOSC 2011 topic organizers and Codefest
Message-ID: <20110224182721.GP20125@sobchak.mgh.harvard.edu>

Hi all;
This year the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) will be taking
place in Vienna, Austria on July 15-16th. This is a yearly opportunity for
open source bioinformatics developers to get together in person and discuss
on-going projects. Nomi Harris, Peter Rice and the other organizing committee
members are already hard at work planning for the conference:

http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2011

The call for abstracts opens next Monday, and extends through April
18th, and we've been brainstorming potential session topics. This
year we've tried to focus each of the sessions around a particular
biological problem or computational approach. We hope this will draw
some interesting parallels between work being done in different groups,
and encourage even more collaboration.

We are actively looking for community members who are interested in heading up
the organization of a topic. The general idea is to build a cohesive set of talks
within a session. How you'd like to do this is completely flexible but some of
the ideas we've been discussing are:

- Having a short introductory talk to provide an overview of an area, framing
  the different talks within this context.
- Forgoing individual question/answer and instead combining this time into a
  longer panel-style discussion with all of the speakers. This would help
  stimulate back and forth between the different projects and the
  audience.

If you are interested in a particular topic and would like to help with the
organization, please send an e-mail to the BOSC mailing list: 
bosc at lists.open-bio.org. We're also open to new topic suggestions, and will
look to add one or two more topics to our current list.

Finally, there will be a two day coding session prior to BOSC as a follow up
to last year's fun and productive Codefest:

http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/Codefest_2011

The Metalab, a unique hacker space in Vienna, has kindly agreed to host
us for the two days. If you are at all interested, please add your name
to the attendees list on the wiki. Since the Metalab organizers don't
know us personally, we'd like to demonstrate there is interest and that we'll
really show up with a bunch of bioinformatics hackers. More details will be in
the works as the summer draws closer.

Looking forward to the sound of music,
Brad