From dag at sonsorol.org Tue Mar 21 10:57:24 2006 From: dag at sonsorol.org (Chris Dagdigian) Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 10:57:24 -0500 Subject: [DAS] Important news for biodas.org users and developers Message-ID: <51AF5503-F934-4935-891B-0A6994374A55@sonsorol.org> Hi DAS people, Sorry for the interruption but I've got some important site and server news. People will also see multiple copies of this note as I slowly transition sites over. We are in the midst of moving all of our websites, mailing lists, developers and sourcecode repositories onto more modern hardware located in a 2nd Boston area datacenter facility. The transition is important for a couple of reasons - the most urgent being that we are going to lose internet connectivity in our current hosting facility on March 27th 2006. That datacenter belongs to Wyeth Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Wyeth Research & Genetics Institute have been long time significant supporters & hosting providers for OBF servers and projects -- we owe them a great deal of gratitude and public acknowledgment for hosting our servers over many years. Speaking as a hardware geek I can tell you that the many years of high-bandwidth, trouble free hosting have been invaluable for our efforts and projects. Sadly, it is no longer possible for them to host our servers as they need to begin making some network and WAN circuit changes that will no longer support direct internet facing servers (such as ours) in Cambridge. The other major reason for the transition is our need to relocate onto hardware that can better be remotely managed (as our volunteer administrators are scattered all over the globe). My employer, BioTeam Inc. has donated new server hardware and is also providing the hosting facilities in a Tier 1 Boston area colocation facility. Infrastructure geeks can see pictures of the colocation cage and the new OBF servers online at this URL: http://bioteam.net/ gallery/bioteamBDC -- those servers also host EMBOSS FTP/CVS and mailing lists. Current status of the migration: - All 57 mailing lists have been moved over to the new hardware (you may have noticed "lists.open-bio.org" showing up in your list messages) - The new anonymous sourcecode server is running at http:// code.open-bio.org. "cvs.biodas,.org" is already pointing at it. - Your website (biodas.org) was moved to the hardware about an hour ago - Developers with CVS accounts have *NOT* been migrated yet Basically we are trying to relocate everything but the developers over the next few days so we can spend the weekend on the developer and CVS transition. For DAS users -------------------- Please keep an eye on your website and mailing lists and let support at open-bio.org know if there are any problems with the transition For DAS developers and leaders --------------------------------------------- Whomever will be updating the DAS website in the future will need login access to our new central webserver machine, please contact support at open-bio.org to request a user account for biodas.org website maintenance. You may also want to discuss amongst yourselves to see if you want to switch over to the Wiki/NewsBlog format that bioperl, biomoby etc. are using For people with CVS commit/write access --------------------------------------------------------- Also note that when we finally do transition over to the new developer machine (where the real sourcecode lives), ALL developers will need to email support at open-bio.org to request a password reset. Although we can transition usernames, settings and home directories over from the old to the new machine we can not transition over existing passwords as they are stored in incompatible hashed formats. All developers are going to need new passwords for the new developer machine. We will likely make the developer machine swap this weekend. Reporting Problems / Help & Assistance ------------------------------------------------------ The transition will be complicated, we need your help to spot problems and glitches! The OBF has a new helpdesk ticketing system set up at "support at bioteam.net" so that all OBF admins can read and respond to issues and problems. Most troubles should be reported to that address. For urgent problems, especially during this transition period, feel free to contact me directly (dag at sonsorol.org) (ichat/ aol/aim screen name: bioteamdag). Regards, Chris Dagdigian open-bio.org From darin.london at duke.edu Tue Mar 28 10:15:15 2006 From: darin.london at duke.edu (Darin London) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:15:15 -0000 Subject: [DAS] Announcing BOSC 2006 Message-ID: <44294B65.4050207@duke.edu> MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR SPEAKERS The 7th annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2006) is organized by the not-for-profit Open Bioinformatics Foundation. The meeting will take place Aug 4,5th in Fortaleza, Brasil, and is one of several Special Interest Group (SIG) meetings occurring in conjunction with the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology. Please consult The Official BOSC 2006 Website at http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2006 for details and information. In addition, a BOSC weblog has been setup to make it easier to desiminate all BOSC related announcements: http://wiki.open-bio.org/boscblog/ And if you have an ICAL compatible Calendar, there is an EventDB calendar set up with all BOSC related deadlines. http://eventful.com/groups/G0-001-000014747-0 More information about ISMB can be found at the Official ISMB 2006 Website: http://ismb2006.cbi.cnptia.embrapa.br/ Thank You, and we look forward to seeing you all, The BOSC Organizing Committee.