From francesco.strozzi at gmail.com Wed Jul 30 08:46:15 2014 From: francesco.strozzi at gmail.com (Francesco Strozzi) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 10:46:15 +0200 Subject: [BioSQL-l] EU OBF Codefest - September 18th and 19th 2014 @ EBI - Hinxton UK Message-ID: Dear all, apologies if you receive this multiple times. We are glad to announce that we are organising the European edition of the OBF Codefest, which will take place on September 18th and 19th at the EBI in Hinxton, UK. This is the second OBF Codefest this year, the first was held this month in Boston just before the BOSC and ISMB conferences and in September we will have the chance to expand and carry on the work and discussions started in July in the USA. The EU Codefest will precede the Genome Informatics Conference in Cambridge, so we hope that developers attending the main conference will be also interested in joining us for a couple of days of coding and discussions on collaborative projects and new ideas. The main topics that were proposed so far are: * The OpenBio projects development (BioPerl, BioPython, BioRuby, BioJava) * Semantic web technologies for biological data (e.g. RDF, OWL) * Software deployment and bioinformatics pipelines, including CloudBiolinux, Docker and GNU GUIX * NoSQL databases and NGS data mining * Biological data visualisation with e.g. D3/JS and BioJS. We of course invite attendees to add other topics of interest. For more information, you can visit the OBF Wiki page, which includes also information on accommodation and registration: http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/EU-Codefest_2014 If you plan to attend, please use the link in the registration section and complete the simple steps on the EBI website, so that we can be aware of the total number of attendees and arrange the organisation accordingly. Registration is also completely free. We will be grateful if you could also share this announce over your network and social media, this will help spreading the word. Thanks and we hope to see many of you in September! Francesco Strozzi James Malone Raoul Bonnal Pjotr Prins